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comintel

Registered: Jun 2008
Posts: 1077

05-19-13 01:55 AM

Quote from gmst:

Alright thanks again for advice. Do you know or have a link at hand which gives situations under which IB recommends to use DDE instead of ActiveX?

You responded both on marketcetera thread as well as here and you shared your experiences with both of them. It is clear you have already been through this exercise that I am undergoing currently. I am getting curious which technology and software do you use for your research and execution and what kind of products/time-frame do you trade - so that I can map your choice of software/technology against the product/time-frame that you trade. Thanks.

I cannot find any IB links on DDE/ActiveX right now that clarify this. If you open a ticket, maybe they would clarify.

I am not using IB at the moment (though I may come back for trading stocks at least later) but am using CTS/T4 which has a nice API for C# and also some Excel capabilities.

I am using a combination of my own C# and R code.

I was using ActiveQuant after looking at all of the frameworks, but eventually gave up it also for now because I am doing a lot of futures options and none of them support options trading decently.

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gmst

Registered: Jul 2011
Posts: 3695

05-19-13 03:09 AM

Ok, Thanks for info comintel. Cheers!

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chasinfla

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3241

05-19-13 09:01 AM

Quote from froluis:

I reopen this thread as I have the exact same question asked above. Why choose excel active X over DDE?

Thanks

IIRC, DDE is aged and slow. Might even be obsolete on some platforms.

FIX is the standard, which would use a FIX engine -- there was one that I believe was DDE for excel -- I downloaded a demo years ago and I don't recall it ever working.

Disclaimer: I didn't realize this was an IB thread (I checked last post first) -- I thought it was the excel thread I posted on a few days ago. Still, DDE is old, was old 5 years ago.

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