Strange. I have thus far no negative experiences with reqContractDetails.
Which of the two steps resulted in an error? The step where you ask for contract details for all available contracts, or the step where you...
What do you mean by "15 seconds time restrictions between requests"? If you are requesting live market data you can do so for 100 tickers in...
I see: I overlooked that OP wants to download the entire chain.
When requesting data on an option, do you need to specify whether you want Call or Put options?
IB does not close positions precisely at the close. They allow themselves a certain time window to do this....
It depends from contract to contract. Let's take your example first: YF (heating oil). The CME page of this contract is here:...
I'm not sure but recall reading somewhere that it was related to counting odd lots: some say that the IB data does not contain the volume of odd lots.
I get the impression that this database does not include ETFs. I tried QQQ, SPY and some others, but no luck.
For futures you could go and read the contract specification. The value per point is written in those specifications. Another way is to place a...
An other possible solution could be to store for each instrument its specific price step size. And represent the price as a multiple of this step...
I got that impression, reading your previous message. Which is why I included my opinion of not changing the volatility target setting, even...
For comparison: I am using a 25% annual volatility target. My account value went down by 9% during May17th. The largest portion of this happened...
Have you tried rounding to two decimals before submitting the float? The rounding step should be the very last step, with no other calculations or...
Please ignore my previous message. The topic is discussed in more detail here:...
Have you tried this:...
I see. If you can deduct those market data costs then these are indeed of lesser importance to you.
Besides commission for options and stock is the cost you pay for market data number three on your list of costs. No matter whether you will have...
So if you would not have had trading costs for day trading your day trading profits would have been 15% higher? This is a substantial impact. Are...
In which case it would be fully allotted to carbs and not to protein, as you suggest he should do.
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