Recent content by ddecker

That should have been move east, or trade in a market further west!

It depends where you are resident, but if it's not Australia, Hong Kong, or Canada, then presumably you can use Interactive Brokers. Per my prior comment and link, their website indicates that they exclude US legal residents, not US citizens.

Option 1: Move west or trade in a market further east Option 2: Try to adjust your circadian system to become more of a "morning person" Below is a blog post on option 2 that might be helpful. For me, using f.lux on my laptop and desktop has made a significant difference...

Not sure where the OP is located, but CFDs are not availble from IB in Hong Kong. [1] https://www.interactivebrokers.com.hk/en/?f=%2Fen%2Ftrading%2Fpdfhighlights%2FPDF-CFDs.php

Indeed. There are so many participants and so many "coins", that it's incredibly difficult to ascertain whether a given participant is skillful or lucky, even in the presence of consistent outperformance. A decent approach that has been used to evaluate fund managers (with depressingly poor...

That's a great strategy until it isn't. If you're taking $250k positions with $25k equity, you had better be prepared to lose it all. It's all very well to talk about "managing your losses", but with that kind of leverage on a single position.....wrong move....margin call....poof, there goes...

What doesn't know? There is an SSL connection from IB's server to TWS and an open local socket between TWS and your client app. Suggesting that there is no possibility that a string being sent down the local socket is being transmitted from the server side shows you don't actually understand the...

No, it's "Angel", although there were no names after the first categorical message of "it is always GMT". The most ridiculous part of this is that there were almost 20 messages back and forth without a correct answer being provided. One wonders just how much money IB waste on support staff...

Thanks. Just to confirm - that was in regard to execution time?

Apologies for the rant, but.... As IB API users would be aware, execution reports come with a m_time field which indicates the execution time as a String in "yyyyMMdd HH:mm:ss" format. I've always received times based on America/New_York time zone, but wanted to confirm with IB (since the...

Per your PM, here's a list of existing platforms that may have the functionality you require. I have little experience with any of these, but your likely to find a lot of info by searching ET. Note that some commerical products are paired only with specific brokers while others support a wide...

You are likely to receive many responses to this question espousing the various benefits of [insert your favorite language] over [insert your most despised language]. The thread will then probably degenerate into an ill-defined argument on platforms and languages. My advice is simply...

I don't mean the API client code itself. That doesn't even run in the same process as the gateway/TWS. I'm referring to whatever gateway/TWS in-process activities result from calling specific API functions, whether by IBs API, custom client, or telneting to the socket and typing in requests...

Awesome error message. Yeah, those parameters were just in case it was a permgen issue, but I took a look at your log and it seems very much like TWS is leaking memory as you've always suggested. The oldgen is completely full, with no space to grow and none freed on collection. I can't...