Information for INTERACTIVE BROKERS customers

  Interactive Brokers provides direct access trade execution and clearing services to individuals,  advisors, institutions, and brokers at deep discount commissions. Our premier technology allows customers to trade stocks, options, futures, forex, and bonds on 60 markets worldwide from a single IB Universal account, at best execution prices. Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates are ranked 16th largest US securities firm by Institutional Investor, execute 22% of North American options, and currently hold in excess of $2.7 billion in equity capital.

Using the scan output of APS with IB's API:

APS Automatic Pattern Search discovers price patterns that fulfill user-defined performance statistics and risk/reward parameters by searching historical data in a fully automated way. APS has three main functions: pattern search, pattern scan and system tracking. Position and swing traders can use the scan function to identify developing price patterns formations in stock, futures or forex markets, output the results to a file and then use the Interactive Brokers API to write a program to generate the orders. Alternatively, the search function can be used to discover historical price pattern formations to add to system tracking list in the form of a trading system.

The important thing to know is that the information generated by the scan function of APS can be saved in CSV format and the resulting file can be used to read the symbol or contract name and other information needed to generate the order.

Below is an example of the output of a stock scan

The above scan results can be saved by APS  in a CSV file, which contains the following information:

The above file can be used to generate orders automatically with a program developed using the IB API. For more information contact sales.