Not sure if this is relevant any more. But you can avoid the whole VPN issue if you just use SSH, disable password authentication, and use ssh key...
I don't think this was mentioned, but are you on a residential plan or a business plan with your provider? Usually business plans have an SLA...
I don't want to turn this into a Linux rant, so I wont say more then this. While some of the issues you mentioned are true (wake on lan, even...
FYI, I happily gave up on Windows a long time ago and have used ArchLinux w/ TWS for years.
I use this service, https://quantquote.com/
This looks sketchy...
Some References: "Dark Pools" by Scott Patterson "The Problem of HFT" by Haim Bodek "Flash Boys" by Michael Lewis "Traders of the New Era" by...
Yeah, dropped off forums for a bit, life got busy :/ . Also wish I received notification on '@' mention. It can/does run headless. I've built my...
Maybe take a look at this thread. I posted a couple of times and there is a lot of good info in it....
A chose rocksDb because its a simple key/value store optimized for append operations where I don't need to modify old data. For my access patterns...
I'm using the IB C++ (posix-compliant) version on linux, not a bad way to go. Some might say its not a well designed API, but if you understand...
Custom solution built on top of rocksDb. Though I store raw tick data so this is overkill for most.
Why keep this going? I think this thread went on a massive tangent from ops original post... I'm fairly certain original op just wanted some basic...
Not sure what you mean but you can't find the group, that link should take you right to it. Is it broken?
Meets regularly once a month. https://www.meetup.com/Northwest-Traders-and-Technical-Analysts-NWTTA/
I personally don't know of many vendors that supply lvl 2 historical data. You can try here https://www.algoseek.com/ as well as maybe ping...
This is not provided for you. You would have to create your own solution.
It use to be because ++var is technically faster to do. It resulted in a "increment and fetch" as appossed to a "fetch and add" which had to...
FWIW, their c++ client is really efficient, they have designed the entire client in a way to reduce memory allocation. Its why the API is somewhat...
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/using-ib-should-i-consider-a-different-market-data-feed.288550/
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