Recent Content by zwangerz

  1. Can IB Accounts in the US have TradeStation Integration?

    You can come close by using the tradestation clone multicharts
    Post by: zwangerz, Dec 14, 2021 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  2. Interactive Brokers down today

    I was locked out for 2,5 hours. This is pretty bad also considering that a few days ago the same thing happened for 1 hour
    Post by: zwangerz, Mar 5, 2020 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  3. Looking for a Interactive Brokers API programmer

    For what instrument classes? e.g. just stocks or just futures? Can there be a GUI? What data points? Do you have to process the data points or...
    Post by: zwangerz, Jan 5, 2020 in forum: App Development

  4. Looking for a Interactive Brokers API programmer

    What language? Is this to be integrated in an existing code base? How much are you wiling to pay? Afaik the only way to overcome the historical...
    Post by: zwangerz, Jan 5, 2020 in forum: App Development

  5. Where do I make orders from with the IBKR API?

    I do all the decision making in tickPrice(...) and in orderStatus(...) I verifiy that there were no errors in execution
    Post by: zwangerz, Nov 29, 2019 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  6. Connecting to API (IQ Feed) to retrieve historical/live data VS loading data from QCollector?

    You have to check if your data arrives in you application fast. Doesn't matter if qcollector updates its files quickly, this could happen...
    Post by: zwangerz, Nov 27, 2019 in forum: App Development

  7. Tick Charts and IB - possible?

    I was not able to do it. Closest was looking at time and sales in rt. My solution was to use Multicharts together with IB to plot tick charts (and...
    Post by: zwangerz, Nov 25, 2019 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  8. Connecting to API (IQ Feed) to retrieve historical/live data VS loading data from QCollector?

    Yes you can skip Qcollector. One reason for the bottle-neck could be since the programs are sharing data via files which is a terrible idea...
    Post by: zwangerz, Nov 24, 2019 in forum: App Development

  9. Connecting to API (IQ Feed) to retrieve historical/live data VS loading data from QCollector?

    I just checked Qcollector to see if I could need it. What do you need it for? I really see no reason to use it at all. You can get the data from...
    Post by: zwangerz, Nov 24, 2019 in forum: App Development

  10. IB account for EU resident

    Account:UK. I had to transfer EUR to Frankfurt,Germany. Not sure about other currencies. I've heard IB is considering moving from UK to...
    Post by: zwangerz, Nov 23, 2019 in forum: Retail Brokers

  11. Connecting to API (IQ Feed) to retrieve historical/live data VS loading data from QCollector?

    I've got some time to kill, you can send me the part you suspect being the bottleneck and I'll look over it. Make sure to delete all the parts you...
    Post by: zwangerz, Nov 23, 2019 in forum: App Development

  12. Connecting to API (IQ Feed) to retrieve historical/live data VS loading data from QCollector?

    This was 2 years ago maybe they dropped the charge in the meantime. I retrieve live tick data from IB and do some math(around 100 lines of code)...
    Post by: zwangerz, Nov 23, 2019 in forum: App Development

  13. Connecting to API (IQ Feed) to retrieve historical/live data VS loading data from QCollector?

    If you need live data then API connection is the way to go no question. The code should be fairly simple once you are familiar with the API,...
    Post by: zwangerz, Nov 23, 2019 in forum: App Development

  14. Connecting to API (IQ Feed) to retrieve historical/live data VS loading data from QCollector?

    Direct API connection would be the cleanest, fastest and least error prone solution. Last time I checked IQfeed wanted like 200$ to get their API...
    Post by: zwangerz, Nov 23, 2019 in forum: App Development

  15. Tax-favorable countries: 0% on cap gains WITHOUT a 'professional' bucket taxing CGs as normal income

    You need to deposit 500k into a Monaco bank account and leave it there if you have connections otherwise it's more like 1 million. Then a studio...
    Post by: zwangerz, Nov 13, 2019 in forum: Taxes and Accounting