I adore IB for forex, I find the way it functions really logical and shows the underlying market's ways of functioning.
If you buy something that is quoted in CHF like in your case, actually you are buying something for CHF.
It's logical, that if you sell it again, you recieve your CHF back, with your P/L in CHF.
Converting your earnings in to your account currency is easy; you do not even have to utilize IDEAL for it.
By way of instance, if you would like to convert CHF 5000 to dollars, you can simply go long 125,000 USD/CHF and after having gained some pips,...