mgerber Member  Posts: 40 Joined: 12/18/2003 Location: Issaquah, WA  User Profile | I have been looking forward to practice trading forex from OT-VT to my IB paper account. Problem is, I already have my paper IB account being traded by OVest, with a TP and gateway in an AWS cloud (I know, too many acronyms!). A limitation of the IB paper account is that it allows only one access at a time. So whenever starting up the desktop IB software for FX trading on the desktop, it would disconnect the cloud gateway and interrupt whatever was going on with OV. I had to be careful about the timing. In other words, I would have to be careful about when each gateway stopped and restarted. Calls to IB today, however, gave me a fortuitous alternative. I had been told in the past that IB allowed only ONE paper account. Today I learned that we can have one paper account *FOR EACH FUNDED ACCOUNT* at IB. I do have a second funded account, and now have a second paper account set up waiting for formal approval (usually a 2-day approval process). Once again a Happy Camper, --Mark G. | |
