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When I started looking into this few years back, I was overwhelmed by all sorts of restrictions on connections and symbols etc. They clear state that they are not specialized data provider and given the latency involved it was never an option for me. However if latency and no. of symbols is not...

You haven't specified what integration and performance etc. objectives you have for your particular situation. There's no good or bad platform without that. If you need to extract every ounce of performance and be readily integrable then Linux/C++ will be your best bet. That being said nothing...

Hi - I'm a noob here and in need of some suggestion/education. I have been working on a simple equity trading system and here is my setup right now: a) Using Polygon.io for quote feed and IB for trade execution. b) The system is written in Java and hosted on home server running linux VMs. c) I...

Robert and others - thanks much for taking time to clarify this. You guys are great and this was very helpful. It makes complete sense given the high volatility and low volumes during extended hours - a market order is a pretty risky proposition with no guarantees to the price or even if the...

Sorry - should have mentioned this - regular traded stocks.

Hi - I'm a complete newbie here and noticed that IBKR and most other brokers only allow limit orders and not market orders during extended hours. Are there brokers which allow this (especially for algo trading scenario) or is there a regulatory kind of restrictions for this situation ?