True, and I must say I thought it was a bit of an odd way of going about it, but I've found it to be exceptionally (100%) reliable since the API...
I'm not saying Java isn't too slow for what you are doing, but I'm curious to know in what respect Java is too slow. I'll grant that Java start up...
IB now has six months backfill. Refer to the API release notes.
Definately get the 939 socket board. The 754 will soon be the low end for AMD and socket A will be no more. There should be a performance...
The market prices shown against positions in the account window are only updated every few minutes unless a position changes in size. From my...
Steve_IB, I notice that there are two new order states that may be shown on TWS. I presume these will also be available via the API. Could you...
I think you can get UK sector indices (and the component stocks) from yahoo uk. I don't know about the others but might be worth having a look...
Yes, but the opposite is also true. What if you encounter problems or limitations with TS (or any other product) that are a serious issue for you...
Quite so on Linux. You mention IDE 'smart' HD diagnostics. More people dependent on their computers should make themselves familiar with smart. It...
No problems at all with DAX and ESTX50.
Of course it depends on what you want to do, but if you get a partial fill on a limit order, you will get an order status event showing number...
Why do you need these things ? There's a lot of info available on tuning firefox eg...
Of course XP home is just XP pro with a few bits missing.
On the topic of MS Vista, it appears that it will come in seven different flavours (unlike XP which only has home and professional). All (except...
Some of them are not so small eg the X11 server. Something like 15 million lines of code. Not only runs on Linux, but virtually all Unices,...
One thing to consider for those investing in a new PC and thinking of using Microsoft Vista (aka Longhorn) is that it seems it will have some...
Not so. There is nothing magical about concurrency on SMP boxes. It's really just a system call to create a new thread (or process). The OS...
Yes. I have developed both server side and client side multithreaded code. Server side on medium size SMP boxes (4 - 16 CPUs). C++ and pthreads....
Sorry, I don't agree with very much of this other than some charting software may not benefit much if there is nothing else running on the...
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