Jerry, Thanks for your response. In terms of functionality, all I believe I really need are 3 or 4 functions: 1) place a limit order, 2) check the status of the order, 3) cancel the order, and 4) check account balance (Others may want to do the same with stop orders.) Other functionality I believe I can provide within my own code. Perhaps another way to do the same thing is to provide the capability of entering data into the QT trading form and issuing the action command programmatically. This approach appears to me to require a lot less work on your part to implement and it would be a great addition to the functionality of QT. "It would only be useful if 3rd party software utilized the API" I'm presently programming an application which uses QT for obtaining quotes but I use the IB API to issue buy/sell commands. I would much prefer to just use one interface to do both things. I may try and commercialize my application some time down the road. Richard
Ah, if it was only so easy. You want LIMIT. John Doe wants trailing stops, someone else wants relative orders. Each broker handles this completely differently. Account balances is even worse - what exactly are you going to check? A particular value? Each broker returns data differently and for some brokers, they may return multiple values for each entry (real-time and starting value for example) Passing the data to the trading form does not make it any easier since the trading panel in QT is not hard coded. It is completely defined by the trading configuration file for each broker. We try to make the user interface similar from broker to broker, but there are significant differences. Trust me, its not as simple as it looks.
To get J. Medved to refer to someone as an ass...takes some doing. I know..I've been a pain in the ass a few times (well ok, more than a few, but I'm old...ok..) and Jerry and has always worked to find a solution for my problem and very professionally and politely showed me where I had screwed something up. Quote Traker is one heck of a bargain ..it's FREE! and if you can't deal with the ads...shell out $8 a month and turn the dang things off.