I understand it's an alternative data source, totally optional. I think more data source options are always a plus.
Problems with Interactive Brokers Forex data If anyone has any comments, idea or suggestions on this problem your help would be appreciated. Goal: Get Forex price data from Interactive Brokers TWS using jTWSdump for download into an ATS for trading 15 to 60 minute bars. Results: jTWSdump works fine. I get my files downloaded in about 5 seconds. However there is never any data for the time period 16:00 to 16:14 as shown below. This is consistent day after day. 20081030 15:57:00 127.44 127.44 127.41 127.41 20081030 15:58:00 127.41 127.41 127.265 127.285 20081030 15:59:00 127.285 127.345 127.22 127.345 20081030 16:15:00 127.245 127.295 127.2 127.29 20081030 16:16:00 127.29 127.29 127.25 127.27 20081030 16:17:00 127.27 127.375 127.27 127.345 20081030 16:18:00 127.345 127.365 127.34 127.34 Are other people using different software for automated data acquisition having the same problem? If so then the problem is with IB. If not then it would be a JTWSdump problem. Can anyone suggest other data acquisition packages that work with Interactive Brokers TWS? Thanks, Jerry
E-signal knows it provides a crappy service. This is why they try to lock people in to grossly overpriced long-term contracts. If they were truly any good, they wouldn't need to lock people in. They want to make tons of money off of clueless newbies, and continue making that money long after the newbie loses his trading capital and stops trading. Hence the long-term contract. I tried at least 2 or 3 free trials of E-signal, and I was disgusted each time.
for the very reason IB chooses to only give some of the ticks - esignal can not be trusted. It lags in heavy markets.
1: We are adding ESignal Futures support; for now it will always be requested from IB. 2: This is correct.
>Dav With eSignal the Data Manager functions for only one application. Will this still be the case in your arrangement with eSignal? Or will an eSignal customer be able to run eSignal Premier and feed data to IB on the same computer simultaneously?(wishful thinking).
Since this forum seems to be run by an IB employee, I'm hoping for a solution to IB margin call & restricted trading automated rules in TWS which threatens my IB account (PS I've been round & round with IB via phone on this for months). I have a Portfolio Margin Account which has fallen under $100k & thus I'm told can only execute orders that increase cash and/or reduce the margin exposure (ie, largely closing positions). The biggest problem right now is that due to already executed IB real-time margin stock sales IB has left me short options against stocks they sold & won't allow me to cover with stock purchases (of course after next Friday when I'll be short stock after these options are called I expect another round of IB automated (and random) margin sales It seems that no one @ Ib understands Portfolio Margin - worse than Reg T which they also do poor job of relating to their automated margin call sales procedure/algorithem. BOTTOM LINE : IB & IB alone in the industry can and will destroy your portfolio randomly and without common-sense logic via their margin requirement execution process. Veteran traders I know (which number in the 100's) are fleeing or ready to flee IB (gee I just thought of an answer -short IBKR)