I have done this in tradelink. if you have a file like Code: IBM,true,100,500.000000,0.000000,,,,STK,USD,,1,DAY,0,0,,0 SPY_111223C119000 OPT,true,1,0,0,,CBOE,ZXBZA,NIL,USD,,975804660,D,20111206,144523,,0 you can read and send them in using OrderImpl.Deserialize(line) with sendorder.
Do you have experience with it? I've heard conflicting things about it, especially about some stability issues. We looked at it briefly when we considered PBing with IB, but decided against it. Pretty reasonable interface, though.
Yes, No more issues than anything else and for me are usually more on the IB side... And as you can see from 2rosy's example above what you are asking for can be short and sweet. Cordially, -DD- PS - The author of the IBrokers package is very good and active in the community!
write some add on or little stand alone application in whatever , that periodically check, if file been modified\updated. if it did-open file,grab info and place an order. i don't see a big deal here. can be done in excel's VBA for example In Excel, the FILEDATETIME function returns the date and time of when a file was created or last modified. http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/formulas/filedatetime.php
heres a beta release. Let me know how it is. Need python and windows (some c stuff). http://bit.ly/SixHJV
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a Python script could load the txt file and run the trade directly with IB MQ See my scripting tutorial for connecting and trading with IB in a pure programming environment