IB Suggestions & Improvements

Discussion in 'Interactive Brokers' started by Babak, Aug 26, 2005.

  1. takacsj

    takacsj

    I'd lilke to have the following:

    1) Ability to immediately attach a conditional order just like I can attach a stop order, and then transmit the original trade order + the attatched conditional order.

    2) Ability to quickly add conditional orders to an order. In other words, have the original order, let's say a buy at 113 01 on US 30 year bond, and attach a protective sell stop of 112 28, and a profit sell stop at 113 10. A fill of either stop would immediately cancel the other.

    3) A variation of #2 would be to somehow exit trade MOC, and cancel both protective stops MOC.

    By the way, if anyone knows how to easily do the above, let me know.
     
    #341     Jan 27, 2006
  2. Why not do a reqMarketData () wait for bid/ask/last or whatever you want, and then cancel the market data request. Keep a pool of market data 'resources' and just cycle through them. Very doable.
     
    #342     Jan 27, 2006
  3. alanm

    alanm

    There is a limit to the number of subscription requests per day to something like 50K because some people decided it would be a good idea to do this to get almost live quotes on many more symbols than the streaming limit.
     
    #343     Jan 27, 2006
  4. Neoxx

    Neoxx

    Is there any way to colour-code the volume bars in IB's charts green and red?
     
    #344     Jan 27, 2006
  5. IBsoft

    IBsoft Interactive Brokers

    We are planning to do that.
     
    #345     Jan 27, 2006
  6. IBsoft

    IBsoft Interactive Brokers

    An interesting idea, but it in the worse case scenario it could significantly increase the computer resources we would need (internally) to make it available. (i.e. we would need to process and distribute each ticker stream twice: real-time and delayed. How would you feel about it if we charged for it? (obviously not the same amount as for the real-time quotes)
     
    #346     Jan 27, 2006
  7. Choad

    Choad

    ALLLRRRIIIGHT!!!!!! :cool: :cool: :cool:

    Thanks IB guys!

    Regards.
     
    #347     Jan 27, 2006
  8. IBsoft

    IBsoft Interactive Brokers

    good idea; will do
     
    #348     Jan 27, 2006
  9. IBsoft

    IBsoft Interactive Brokers

    DAV will respond to the rest of the new suggestions either publicly or via PM.
     
    #349     Jan 27, 2006
  10. alanm

    alanm

    I can see it requiring a separate processing queue to delay the quotes, but I don't think it would increase distribution too terribly much, since I don't think it will get used much. That is, most people subscribe to real-time quotes for the stuff they actively trade. Delayed quotes are going to pretty much be used in a snapshot fashion to look at EOD quotes, charts, etc., and probably not stay subscribed for very long.

    Also, the processing/distribution can take bottom priority to everything else, since the exact amount of delay is not all that important, as long as it's timestamped (I think). You can probably also up the aggregation window to a second or more.

    Not too happy to pay for it, since I already do so in two other places, but I might :)

    Thanks for listening.
     
    #350     Jan 27, 2006