I'm not sure what purpose your little diatribe serves in relation to my post, the real problem is not the language, it the design of programs....
Anyone who thinks C# or Java is going to execute faster than C++ needs their head read, but as pointed out above it will be the I/O operations...
I have to ask the obvious question, if it works so well, why bother selling it?
A question for those people who have written their own back testing frameworks and automate though IB, do you use the IB historical data to...
I'm glad I'm not the only person who had this thought, the MB C++ API is the same really, total crap.
My ISP is Orcon. Where do I configure the server address for TWS? BTW, cheers for all the help guys.
I'll give that a shot as well, when I can't connect I can ping the IB IP address, but am unable to resolve the name.
Cheers for that. Another update, from the log... PO 19:37:18:576 JTS-Login-4: NextConnectTime: 19:37:32:625 base=150000 range = 20000...
How do I establish the ip address of the server? Update: It got into the same state, which is that my internet connection is functional but...
I'm using buttontrader, so the the first thing I see is 'comms loss with IB' in buttontrader, I then switch to TWS and the quote grid is blank and...
Locked out again...
It came back about 2 minutes after I posted, I guess we will see how it goes. Is this par for the course with IB?
I'm in NZ, I've had the IB account about 2 days and I must have been locked out about 4 times already, not impressed, I was just about to enter a...
I want the couple of minutes of my life I spent reading though this weapons grade bullshit back.
Being stupid never goes out of fashion.
They are awesome at modeling the past, useless for predicting the future.
You can also use boost http://www.boost.org/libs/tokenizer/index.html If you are using a modern C++ compiler.
Boost is C++ utilities for general stuff, not trading specific.
Boost is great, ACE is a bit heavy, also don't really know why that would be useful in trading. If you want networking try 'asio' (soon to be...
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