Recent content by BillCh

Of course the problem is caused by IB, of course they will never ever admit to it, and of course never ever solve that issue. When you enter 100 XY with a profile of 60/40% of two accounts and even use the very same profile to exit all 100 again (so no partial exits at all) you will end up...

Is for example a LONG LIMIT order where the limit is underneath the actual price (so not preventing the entry) being treated - by my broker IB and/or the exchange - the exact same way as a MARKET order would be? Or are there any preferences which order will be filled first and/or better? I am...

I don't know how to say how much I regret to have spent weeks with NinjaTrader in the hope to get it to work, but it simply is an unreliable software, and the people behind it are not at least capable of dealing with real trading issues. The software cannot be used for automated trading in an...

Beside all the very valuable remarks, I believe another very important aspect on an intrady stragy is that if you have backtested it on lets say 1 or 5 minute historical bars crossing some indicators (SMA, whatsoever) you would by far not see the same (good) fills in real trading. Indicators are...

Hi, anyone really trading fully (or semi) automated with NinjaScript 6.5 and Interactive Brokers (via TWS 887 as this is the only supported version)? Anyone really trading IB FFA (Friends & Family Accounts) via NinjaTrader? I migrated there as interface and C# based language looked...

So far I made a little fortune. How? By starting with a big fortune! But seriously, my hit quote is like a coin with heads only, unfortunatelly I am always betting tails. The first January days my coin always showed tails, I felt that isnt good, having only winners. And right I was, since...

Change over to TD-Ameritrade! They got hacked, so all the information is in good hands, like at professional spammers. This way you can be sure that not only your relatives, but also half the world knows about your account details. P.S.: The good thing is that TDA also included your Social...

THIS IS SERIOUS! This is not only about spam, this is a serious problem which they are trying to down play! They also gave away our account number(s), date od birth and SSN!! As the hacker(s) had access to the data base containing that info, it is more of a provocation to read from...

Hi, I am trying to request historical intraday data in Excel via DDE. I tried it in IBs Demo (TwsDde.xls) which works as it writes the data into a new sheet. Problem, there is a bunch load of Subs and Functions all over the place calling each other. I was not able to pin the core commands...

@R0bert Thank you very much for your input! I started to work with that but failed so far as I am just beginning to learn about VB, VBA, ActiveX, etc. My last programming experiences lays 20 years behind me by entering 10: Input X, 20: Print X in my C-64 ;-) Maybe I can make some progress...

Hi Interactive Brokers (IB) API question: Excel's VBA and ActiveX. It is confirmed by IB that there is no (Today's) OPEN available via DDE for Excel. I do not have to express how ridiculous this is, not to have such fundamental trading information available in any API! As it is...