punter, Cooltrade (http://cool-trade.com) was designed to do exactly this. There is no programming interface. I can trade long and short at the...
For a rookie, you're pretty sharp! You win! :) pat :) P.S. I guess Ed just doesn't get my sense of humor... :(
From that perspective, VBA is best. It is the language of Office (Excel being the one he'd need it in most), and the leap from VBA to VB.NET is...
Learning to program... I have taught many people who never programmed in their lives to program in OO languages. As I sit here I have VS 2008...
@razortade, I think @atticus has it (IBCharts, that is). I use IB as a broker for CoolTrade, so I downloaded it and was impressed. The GUI has...
"Guess I'll have to dust off my C++ textbook from university and refresh my memory. Now, on to finding a broker with a useful API ..." I never...
Wait a second. I think the phone must have rang, or I dozed off for a few minutes. When I said above: I really meant to say: I base this on a...
Amen. Way more then 1/2 of all trades in the markets are not done automatically. Those that aren't are done by rooms full of kids at bingo...
I'm a little late to this thread, so forgive the reply. I didn't see anyone posting after this post on the topic. I've only been using CT (with...
travis, I use cool-trade and interactive brokers. I do no manual trades. IB uses a /per trade' pricing strategy, so I trade in higher priced...
Has anyone experience with other services? Will one service work for one kind of trading, and another not? I don't have a dedicated line (using...
maxdama, Thanks for writing. In trying to compare the services, I see that IB has a $10k minimum deposit, $10/month activity fee, but the...
I am writing a program to take data in from stock indicators to make trades. Pretty common, right? But I am also going to add data that I receive...
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