a neat site

"Anyone have any ideas why in the last few days my real tick layout appears all on 1 monitor. If I stretch it out to all 4 monitors and save the layout it is fine until I log off and back on then it's all back on 1"

I've had that problem and it seems like it took forever to fix. It turned out to be a hardware config issue....I'd fix it and a few days later, it would occur again. I've since reformatted my hard drive which took care of it permanenly. I can't remember for sure, but I believe it was a display parameter in tal.ini which showed (just as an example):

position= 2 -17, 3852 1018

where each of the 4 numbers represents the address of the corners (i guess) of your window.

I had to play around with them until i got the window to open up where it fit perfectly across all of my monitors, then save the ini file [make sure you write down the correct parameters]

Hope that helps

rick

 

I beleive you should simply "wait" and be patient until you get your trial accounts to try the service and see for yourself wether it is slow / fast / good / crap or whatever

Only problem for some of you is that their standard trial account only offers access to UK stock and futures and World indices, so you will have all the major US indices like the DOW, NAS , Nikkei ect.. but not individual stocks. It is still possible to "check" the speed when looking at these indices.

 

THe server on IRD that I connect to for TA_SRV $IFEED$ is 193.8.69.201

Try and ping that guys and you will see what type of ping you get to it.

Elicoppo

 

>"Anyone have any ideas why in the last few days
>my real tick layout appears all on 1 monitor. If I
>stretch it out to all 4 monitors and save the layout
>it is fine until I log off and back on then it's all
>back on 1"

I've had no problems with my Multi-monitor (3) system at all. As noted by others, it must be some kind of specific hardware issue.

JB

 

>I beleive you should simply "wait" and be patient
>until you get your trial accounts to try the service
>and see for yourself wether it is slow / fast / good
> / crap or whatever

This I can agree with.

>Only problem for some of you is that their standard
>trial account only offers access to UK stock and
>futures and World indices, so you will have all the
>major US indices like the DOW, NAS , Nikkei ect.. but
>not individual stocks. It is still possible to "check" the
>speed when looking at these indices.

I can't agree with this as written. Data supply speeds can vary greatly depending on the volume of data requested. For example, one of my data suppliers is SLK. I have found them to be on the average something like 15ms faster providing me with Naz Lvl2 quotes (as compared to RT) UNTIL the volume picks up. Try to trade CSCO on the open, or after any FOMC or other big news and SLK can be over 1000ms behind RT.

You don't know how a data provided helps or hurts you until you use it *for your purposes on the securities you trade* over a period of time and compare the results. For some, this might be the cat's meow, for others it might not.

JB

 

Does realtick or IRD have a built in live stock scanner (something to tell you when stocks meet your configured parameters to buy or sell ) ?

If not what do most of you guys use? I know cyber has one built in but I don't trade via cyber.

Thanks

 

35 hops .....yikes!

ping 209 ms


Could be a good service for overseas futures markets will have to take a look.

Nice find.

 

209ms ping is quite good. Are you using a modem ?

 

Magna

I don't use realtick, do you know of any other scanners that are free standing (provide the data source).

Thanks