I've had some good advise, it's just a matter of figuring out who is worth talking to.
Who would you recommend?
I was just browsing the Pinnacle web site looking at their historical futures data (CLC Database), it seems like a good deal. The question is...
Cheers for that, I have switched it over to ISAM. One annoying thing I have found with MySQL is the time stamp only goes down to 1 second...
I had a look at MySQL last night, I didn't realize how far it had come, the tools are much easier to use than Postgres. I'll give MySQL a shot,...
Does anybody else use a windows based database to store quote data, if so which database do you use? I looked at the MS desktop SQL engine, but it...
What is meant by 'handling the bid/ask'?
I have been writing indicators to track volume at ask and bid, most charting packages have a callback for adding a value to an indicator when a...
So what kind of valid measurements could be applied to the ask over an interval of time?
If I get 3 updates at the ask (say volumes of 1,2 & 3) over 1 second, is it valid to say that I had a total volume at the ask of 6 over that...
You should check out the Yahoo group. http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TWSAPI/
I am evaluating the NT/IB combo and I'm not sure I would use it for live unattended trading. Overall NT has nice features and it's easy to...
I do large scale, distributed, real time systems work for telecoms and Java and C# are never going to be faster than well coded C or C++, the fact...
I'll put another vote in for NinjaTrader, I was using MT4 but the lack of a debugger and many subtle traps often resulted in many hours of...
Thanks guys, it came back after about an hour, but it was too late by then, I'm not really sure what was going on as I could ping the server....
Is anybody else in the Asia region having problems with IB tonight? This is the second night in a row I have been locked out of the London open.
IB FIX is only for order entry, all rest has to be done via the TWS API, God only knows why...
FIX is a token separated, plain text protocol, just like the protocol between TWS and the API clients, each message may contain maybe half a dozen...
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TWSAPI/ http://www.interactivebrokers.com/cgi-bin/discus/board-auth.pl?file=/2/2.html&lm=1201121223
I've used IB and from a design point of view it's a bit of a mess, functions take lots of arguments and they are not very well documented. On a...
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