I use "Automate" to start IB and Sierrachart every morning and record the data. Sierrachart has a playback feature with it. Automate is available here: http://www.networkautomation.com/automate/index.htm?redirfrom=unisyn& Sierrachart is available here: http://www.sierrachart.com
Usually I am reluctant to buy software which does not provide fully-functional free trial versions. If they are so confident at their products, why don't they let us test it first (sure there may be a few exceptions to these, like software which users just use it once or so)? Badly speaking, one reason why author provide the limited version is simply they don't wish their prospective customers to fully test their software. They realise their software is not superb or bug-free. This would hide the imperfect or buggy parts, while the nice parts could shine too. I have heard some bad stories about that when people buy a less-than-desired product based on its limited version. Even worse, some authors just provide the demos. It's no-no to these companies. I think there must be some products which provide fully-functional trial versions. I'm going to look for them.
I know it's possible to feed IB data into Excel, but what about having IB update a (not sure what it's called) table in Excel. E.g., each row from 1-10 would represent a 5 minute bar, and when five minutes passes, the data in the first row drops off, the existing data moves up a row, and the latest data goes in row 10. Ideally, I'd like to open TWS and then Excel and have TWS fill in three tables and update it as described above. IS THIS POSSIBLE? If so, I'd appreciate any leads or programmers who'd be willing to help me. I'm feeding data into Excel now from Qcharts, but if I can do it from TWS without it being too clunky, I'd like to try it.
it is! Have a look to thread 'Tick by Tick data on TWS'. There you can download the zero version of my spreadsheet 'excel-twsv2,01.xls' and the correspondent manual It's purpose is to chart one instrument of IB in realtime. To fulfill this task a table is filled with realtime data row by row. You could add another table creating the bar data you are interested in. What instruments you are looking for? Maybe I add a bar table to my next version. Regards, Martin
I use SCMagic for IB data, Sierra Chart and Amibroker for playback and backtesting. Cost for intraday tick data is about $11 per month, minute data should be less and you get a very long history, perfect for back testing or for a playback.
Wouldn't 1 minute bars be better? - Think there are a lot of programs to create 5min bars out of 1min data, but the other way round it's impossible, since 1min data are lost in longer time frames.
I have downloaded the Automate software. Looks good. But I can't seem to find the file that starts up the IB TWS? Anyone what its called?
Quotein has a feature that is almost identical to what you describe. I believe it is called their QLOG function. They are at www.quotein.com.
yeah - Hi Henry - I wrote that zero version piece of software for a German discussion group, so the manual is in German too, but it has got a lot of screenshots, so it might be helpful even though you don't understand the text. Development goes on - just working on a professional looking real time chart - see screenshot below = total volume + price with some additional info of market direction. Anybody interested in sharing ideas? When I should reach a working version perhaps I'll write a manual in English too. Regards, Martin