I second this. A couple of years ago I saw (and still see) a guy on YouTube showing almost daily gains of tens of thousands of dollars. He was...
I have never used IB to stream data because they make it very clear that they are not a data provider. They provide data for their platform....
I use IQFeed (comma separated values). Parsing is 99% of CPU usage. The analysis only 1%. JSON is not the best format to use for speed of...
I just checked my 50" 4K .onn from Walmart. Works fine at 60Hz.
I like the CSV (comma-separated value) format that IQFeed provides. When downloading historical data I write a line of data to a file exactly as...
I got some of that wrong. DTN data request rate is approx. 60/sec. I don't know what/if IB has an order submission rate.
I have systems that I do the setup calculations the night before. For example: 1) You are only interested in stocks that are in an uptrend (or...
ndisgiiet, The open price that you see in your data is not necessarily the same as the first price traded after 9:30. It can be the price that...
The cat just wants to keep this thread going as long as possible so that no one will open the box and decide its fate. So far it's looking good...
Obviously, C++, Java, and C# are the fastest. The best choices if writing everything from scratch are (IMO) Java, C#, and Python. Things to...
TWS installs its own version of Java
I have had it take an hour. Usually just a few minutes (or seconds). Through the API I just make the trade, then I have to watch it until I get...
When a trade takes place off the exchange (like between two funds) it is required to be reported by a certain time. I don't recall when but it is...
My systems watch every tick/trade, and bid/ack change, throughout the day for many symbols (stocks). I bring this up now because everyone has...
It did not occur in the pre/post-market data. These are trades to occurred off of the exchanges but were reported at a later time. The point is...
As an example of data that makes backtesting difficult and a question about other data services (Norgate, Polygon.io, Rithmic, ActiveTick, etc.)....
I have read that TWS chart backfill (every time you open or switch charts) is very, very slow (may not even happen?). I don't think this is TWS...
If I were buying a computer for trading, I would get something like this https://www.newegg.com/p/1VK-001E-413T5 Throw out the 8 gigs. Buy 16...
I give up. Somebody else take this. I have used multi-monitor setups at work and large TV monitors at home. Large TV all the way for me....
Of course it will display more. Your operating system allows you to scale your everything up/down. Scale them to the size that is comfortable on...
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