Recent content by juggernaut

No problems here, but I'm only using the eminis and some indices. No level 2

Since this is the prediction thread. I'll say it hits 1110 before it hits 1150 again.

Realtick had the same 36 second lag after the announcement. I use IB as a backup, and other than their CBOT quotes disappearing they don't lag. Pisses you off, the one you pay for always lags and the free one works.

Hi Afterburner, I often suffer from the same problem you described. It is very easy to get into hope mode and get slammed by these trend moves which just won't retrace. My current solution is to put in a hard stop of 3 points on the NQ. I can see that it is really better to get stopped...

IB does no bundling of trades. They just send a snapshot of the current price/vol, etc at each time interval. That's why you don't see certain prices if they occur between the snapshot. If IB wanted to fix this while maintaining a snapshot feed they need to send a HLC bar which gives a...

Even though sending the tick data is the cleanest and easiest way in the long run. IB could send the price range, basically the high and the low since the last snapshot. This would go a long way toward making it look like a true tick feed. This would require very little additional bandwidth...

Simple, you give each parameter a weighting. Can even be plus or minus. Add all the weights into one variable and then see if the value in the variable is good enough for your trade.

Elocaltrading offer protech which has a free API replacing JTrader. However their commissions are higher than IB.

Not sure it relates, but I believe Intel had a huge write down on flash memory which didn't sell. I think Sandisk makes flash.

Hi Def, I've been looking at the HSI, charting it through the TWS API IB doesn't appear to provide volume for it making it impossible for me to emulate tick charts. Is this going to change? Do you know any place to get free historical tick data for the HSI? And lastly, can you tell...

JayF Thanks for the reply, but I looked at the API. A request takes one call but getting a bar back from esignal takes another call. So 40000 tick bars will take 40001 calls. Arrays were invented for a reason. Esignal can charge what it wants but discriminating against small...

Are there plans to make the ActiveX API more useful? I wouldn't pay for an API that sends one bar of data for each function call. That's just a toy! In addition why do you charge for the API, If I'm not mistaken you are in the data delivery business, not the charting software business.

SethArb, can you explain how you can cause an invalid execution. Thanks, juggernaut

The API with docs gets automatically downloaded when you get the Protech program. Unfortunately you have to be an account holder to get the program. I don't think I can post it since they have all kinds of NDA's just to get the program. But trust me it's easy and I believe it's quicker...

ElocalTrading is now offering a frontend called Protechtion, which is a replacement for JTrader. It appears to still use patssystems as the backend. It however includes a free API which is just as easy to program as TWS.