Recent content by ladieu

I can already do everything you are saying with IB, the issue is it's slow due to the explanation I already gave. Is there a source that will give you bulk snapshot data of option contracts OR do you always have to get it one symbol at a time in realtime?

Fair enough.. but what data source are you recommending? That's not answering the question I am asking

A trader friend of mine has engaged me to do some programming for him, obviously I am a computer programmer. I wanted to lay out what I am trying to accomplish and hopefully get a good recommendation on a cost effective option to get some data feeds. I'm open to suggestions on if there is a...

Actually I still have some serious issues with it. I wasn't able to work on it for a bit but have recently started back on it

Butterfly, I'll give it a try today and see. If that's the case I'll feel pretty silly ;) I've been looking at IQFeed as a potential alternative

Ok, I'll try their official support forum. I don't see any documentation that would indicate that it could reuse a client ID. It's an asynchronous call.. thus you can't queue anything.

no ReqMktData takes just 1 ticker ID# Thanks, I'll keep looking

Yes you can loop ReqMktData but it starts asynchronous connections to realtime data. Where I just need the snapshot. Once you open too many of these the connection simply gives you errors for having too many open. So you have to close them as they open, since they are asynchronous subscriptions...

What feed data source do you recommend. My guys deals with options exclusively -Nick

I am trying to price an options chain to get the standard things back, such as underlying price, implied volatility etc. I'm a programmer by trade and don't know a whole lot about trading. I am making this for someone else to use. So I have my main call...