Recent content by FuturesTrader71

I was never on R-Trader and have never used it. I think a bunch of people have me crossed with someone else.

Who had a meltdown on FIO?

SPAM GARBAGE. There is a decent way to advertise and you are not using it.

Autorecovery is on and is set to 10 mins. When excel shuts down, it just completely shuts off as if I killed process. Strange.

I tried it with 2007 and it was really bad. Reverted back to 2003 and it works fine. My Excel still shuts down at 1:15 every day though.

Pull the data using the IB provided sheet is cumbersome. Try the IB Excel Adaptor and you will see how simple it is to pull in as many symbols as you want.

Yes, I have used the IB Excel Adaptor to pull in Fast Cash and other data and it works just fine. It is a little slower than pulling data off CQG directly, but it is impossible to be fast enough to benefit from the extra 200 ms or so difference. The IB DDE is near impossible to use cleanly via a...

Is there any particular reason it would shut down Excel over something else? Also, how do you think it would explain the fact that it shuts down at exactly the same time every day? Interesting points though.

IB doesn't actually shut down. The IB software continues running but Excel shuts down at almost exactly 1:15 PM CT every day. I then go to click on the worksheet to start it again. It never saves the changes before it shuts down. Very mysterious.

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Hi folks, I'm using an Excel sheet to track a bunch of markets using IB Excel Adaptor (http://www.cyberxpert.com/downloads.html). It seems like at around 1 pm CT, Excel shuts down completely without saving any changes I made to the spreadsheet. IB continues to run. I actually upgraded...

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How is that effecting you psychologically? This is the trading psychology forum right. Help keep the board user-friendly by posting in the appropriate place. Thanks, FT71

Hmmm... for trading purposes... I would still take my matrix of 19" monitors over one big unit like that. I would hate to be out of luck when this one big screen has a malfunction. A matrix of multiple monitors gives me automatic backup screens to trade with after reconfiguring the desktop...