Interactive Brokers cross instrument trading

[mateusz]

Hi

I'd like to add stocks trading capability to my platform

Since I live in EU it's easier for me to trade Interactive Brokers CFD contracts based on US stocks than actual stocks. They are 1:1 priced on their platform

Can I use DxFeed as my data feed for US stocks and initiate orders from Bookmap, route it through TWS but trade CFD's based od that stocks? Similar to cross-instrument trading available for CME products

[AndreyR]

Hi mateusz,
Currently this feature is not implemented in Bookmap. But it can be implemented with API which requires software developing skills or hiring a developer. Let me know if you're interested in that.

[santosh_neupane]

Hi,

I am facing the same issue.
I can trade US Stocks CFD on 1:5 - basically I need $1 to trade a $5 stock.

I have some programming skill. Could you please outline the idea on how this can be achieved?
One way, I was thinking, was perhaps make all the orders that bookmap routes to IB be CFD - basically needs to change the contract object (eg: contract.secType = 'CFD').

If I have to trade the actual Stocks through bookmap, then it becomes too costly. Therofore, kindly request you to provide some guide on how this (trading CFD) can be achieved through API.

Thank you.

Regards,
Santosh 
 

[AndreyR]

Hi,
we are checking if we can add this feature.
If we can't the only way will be writing a custom IB adapter from scratch (see examples here)