Order entry is manual, always. I use APIs for live data and calculations. I do not day trade, and hold for 2-6 months. Event driven investing and arbitrage.
For such strategies, it may be hard to achieve such consistent return stream of 10k a day. Are you referring to average over the year? Any delta hedging involved for your strategies? What's the risk capital involved? & performance characteristic like sharpe, sortino, calmar?
You are correct in being sceptical and I am right in being private here. I have nothing to sell and will not be raising money from investors (not very ambitious).
and where better to find answers to naive questions such as this one https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/tws-excel-dde-api-running-on-a-mac.354600/
I am not that tech minded nor interested in execution speed or automation. I try to make the best with whatever is available, namely IBKR tools exclusively. The only other thing I use is a little tool called QuiteRSS to track announcements. I spend my days reading SEC fillings instead.
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