Recent content by dakr

Because my last interaction with IB customer service took 2 months to resolve even after escalation via phone calls. They basically don't care. The only reason I'm still with them is I have my code plugged into their datafeeds and I can't be bothered to change at the moment.

Thanks. I'm not looking to specifically trade iron ore contracts (yet); but doing some checks to confirm that the product listing page is the full list of all securities traded. The TIO contract below doesn't appear on the listing page, do you know why?

Hi, I'm able to find iron ore futures contract using the TIO symbol in TWS. How can I find this on the IB product listing page: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=products Tried searching and looking under futures > comex. I thought I might be able to get a full listing of...

Anyone know of any way to escalate tech support to Interactive Brokers? I've had a query that hasn't been resolved for 2 weeks. Response has been generic and unhelpful.

Just dabbling with pairs trading at the moment. The chart below shows the spread of a highly cointegrated pair (p value = 5e-7). Data is based on 1 minute bar close, over a period of 6 months. Regression was done over the whole 6 months for simplicity. I'm surprised to see long periods of...

Thanks @ph1l this is great. Took me a while to figure out how to navigate to this page for other stocks but figured it out

Hi, Anyone know where I can programmatically get financial data (e.g. income statement, cash flow, maybe balance sheet)? Need to include australian equities. Either need an API or a website that can be easily scraped. Had a look at the following: -Yahoo finance - 4 years of data only -IB TWS...

If I knew specifics I would not need to ask the question :) Let me generalise - what setup do you use to reduce the chance of connection or compute downtime? Would have thought a cloud VPS would provide this and you can choose a location close to the IB servers...

Has anyone here had experience using a server? Is this the best way to go if people like QuantConnect can't support your market? Any recommendations? And yes I'm aware finding the alpha is the hardest part.

What's the best way to set up live algo trading? Looking to intraday trade australian and canadian etfs and futures. I'm with IB so thinking to hire a VPS and run TWS + some python/C++ scripts? Initially I was thinking to use QuantConnect as the workflow is quite seamless but it doesn't appear...