TWS with IB Discussion

Sorry if this thread already exist, but I thought it would be nice to have a spot to talk about TWS, q and a type stuff, setups, apis, etc...

 

What's q?

 

A male-gendered omnipotent semi-being, who exists as one discernible facet of a continuum (known eponymously as The Q Continuum). I mean, right?



OMG -- I just googled.... and found,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(Star_Trek)
Man.
These Interwebs.
They be somet'in'.....
And, just to deep into the Geeky Sunday Nerddom Pool completely, my favorite....

 

trying ib controller and multicharts now.

 

LOL

 

IB sucks. TWS sucks. API is unreliable. Get out of there as soon as you can!!

 

Riiii-iiiiiight. And JSOP, haven't you been with 'em more than my 10-11 years??

 

No just 9 years. Thank God!!! And NEVER again and never again among my family and/or friends ever again!!! You should get out too!!! You won't discover how beautiful life is until you leave them. They are truly despicable!!

 

Who have you moved over to?
What kind of APIs do they provide?

 

TOS and even though they don't provide API, you can program conditional orders to auto trade. It has its limitations but it's lot easier to implement. Their commissions for stock is flat rate. You can trade 10 million shares and it's still one price. Towards the end, IB was charging me $100+ commissions even though I was on tiered based and direct routing.