hello traders, i want to ask you to check out a tool that allows placing Orders in TWS, getting Account Information etc. from any application that can use a DLL or COM. http://www.trade-commander.org/twslink/twslink.htm
it would be great if you can also supply a script that allows your tool to process "auto trading" signals from www.collective2.com
- collective2.com i put a look there and couldn't found any outgoing gear except the "Instant Trade Messanger" may in later versions i'll offer a file interface where orders can be placed like: MSFT,STK,USD,SMART,BUY,LMT,27.66,0.0 - multiple instances this is planed, but i think this will be commercial version only. i will make a post here, once such a version is available.
I didn't mean the Instant Trade Messenger (which is just a pop up window). Collective2 offers an API interface where an application on a remote (trader) PC can pull the signals directly from their server. This is currently handled by an application called TradeBullet. If you contact C2 by e-mail they can give you access to the pull protocol (I believe it's based on xml) and explain the process.
Hello NoWorries, pulling trade signals by email from a server is - from TWSLink point of view - a different task. TWSLink bases on direct DLL/COM Function Call. To use TWSLink you would need a wrapping application/script which pulls the signal from C2 server, extracts order spec from xml-string and then calls the appropiate TWSLink Function. this may could simply be done by a perl script. from perl to TWS via TWSLink, no Problem. i don't want to offer an extra interface for specific Applications because this would corrupt the concept of TWSLink. regards, chinaski
For any job of any complexity, XML is vastly superior. It is also a widely used standard. With a decent API such as JDOM for Java it is easy to use.