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I believe you can use that charting software for spreads to track their price on their demo account. I was trying to get it to work and found it a bit clunky. I’m not sure if that had anything to do with the fact that it was a demo account, or operator error. Probably the latter. IB stated to me I could use the demo account for as long as I wanted and it doesn’t expire.

I have been with IB since they started. My memory is vague on this,and things very well might have changed, but, I do remember a time when you can open a an unfunded account for 45 days. Then it had to be funded. But, like I said, that was a very long time ago, and things could easily have changed. I think TOS allows you to have an unfunded account forever, with live data. Are you saying that TT does not have any charting ability?

Live data will cost you money, delayed I am not sure. I know IB has an inactivity fee of 10 dollars a month.

Hi. I am newbie here. So I am still paper trading the strategies using IB platform. When I was paper trading for buying/ selling stocks that have huge volume, the paper trading account follows closely with real trades. Nevertheless, I have found several times that when selling a combo option orders, I still did not get filled even though I matched the bid of the combo orders or even set the limit lower than the bids. That is also happening several times when I am buying, even though I put the limit orders higher than the midpoints. But other members got even lower fills (lower than the midpoints). Of course, other members are trading with real money. At one time, I experiment to close using a market order. The market order is filled way below the current bid. I am beginning to wonder if it is due to paper trading. If no real trades occur at a specific limit price, even though at that moment, the prices are at the bid or even lower, it will not get filled in paper trading account. Is my observation correct? In that case, paper trading in a paper trading account to test the strategies are not going to work/ show reliable result. How're other senior members paper trading the strategies before using real money? Just taking down notes on paper for entry prices that you think that is probably going to be filled, then taking down notes again when exiting at exit prices that you think it is going to be filled? Waiting some feedbacks from other senior members regarding paper trading the strategy.