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I'm working on a front-end for IB and I'd like to be able to update orders, even those that are created by different clients. When the order is created by the same client that's doing the update, the code is simple: order.m_transmit = true ibclient.placeOrder(order.m_orderId, contract...

Is there a way to submit GoodUntilDate or GoodAfterDate orders using Sterling? I see STIOrder has StartTime and EndTime but docs don't say what they do, nor what format they're in. Anyone tried these and got them working?

Thank to all the suggestions. Yes, with Visual Studio 2005 Professional and the older MFC I was finally able to compile and run without obviously crapping out. Will have to wait till Monday to test it properly but this is the closest I've been able to come. And as much as I'm impressed by...

Ironically, I suspect that the problem may be that my libs are too current. Everyone I've talked to who has got the C++ API working is using Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 when I'm using 2008. I've been trying to find some older copies of VS to see if that will help. What a pain.

I'm having a terrible time trying to get even the simplest automated programs working using Genesis Laser's API. I've got the .NET API to connect and get data for a couple symbols but orders are silently ignored. I turned to the C++ API and I am getting assertion failed errors in wincore.cpp...

Check out Groovy and its SwingBuilder. You can cut the code of your GUIs down by 75% or more and supply the proper function pointers (better: closures!) and other dynamic deliciousness. Scala is also much better at GUIs that Java and also interoperates well.

Why does Sterling suck? I've been bashing my head against Genesis's Laser for months now and I can scarcely recall such negligent or outright hostile customer service. I'd bet that all brokers and trading software sucks :)

If you don't want to get a second user, you can add a second IP address in the API settings for TWS and connect just as you would do if you logged in locally.

Re bot - it's very easy to write a bot that sends orders to IB or other systems. Don't waste your money on the crappy stocktickr service, it's charging a buttload of money for nothing. Re OM & T-I systems - the OM fills are impossible to achieve in real trading at the best of times and may...

A) it's possible B) any broker, but those with a good API are easiest (IB, TS, etc.) C) Skilled programmer could do it in a day or two. Since you have to ask, a month or two.

Is there a problem doing this with two OCA groups, one for each stop/target combo? You might even get away with one OCA group. What have you tried & what problems did you encounter?

Dude, chill. As someone already pointed out, most of the volume on the exchanges is already coming from computers. There are plenty of quant funds and several like Lime who are trading massive automated programs. They've got their own programs to worry about without wondering what some...

FWIW, I tried a bunch of different things today, here's what I found: - placing a 100ms Sleep() after all calls to placeOrderEx(), I see that all orders are properly joined to the OCA group but still many orders would remain in the "awaiting transmitting" state. So some improvement. -...