Recent content by marauder

Such a strong reasoning, is not something which I can beat. I am always looking forward to learn from other traders' standpoints; hence, I will be really pleased to listen to your point, if you are so kind as to tell us about it.

On the contrary.... and from my own experience... I cannot see how anyone (non-pro, this is) can make money consistently by swing trading. Even if it's intraday swing trading. During three years, I've focused my efforts in building a custom ATS from scratch. From scratch means... well, from...

thanks for your answers, DTN/Telvent is, indeed, IQFeed. They have an excellent feed (true tick) and a good API; a very developer-focused product, I really like them. Their only problem is that they have USA-based servers only, which, according to my measurements, add some...

Hello all, I'm trading eurex via IB's european server. My ATS happens to be located at Germany, thus my global RT time ( ATS <-> IB Server <-> Eurex) is pretty good. Problem is... the feed. If I use IB's quotes, they are of course as fast as my fills are (they being echoed from the same...

thanks for the hints! thing is, IB's nomenclature is a bit... prone to confusion, I'd say. From a pure technical standpoint, if I've got 50 messages per second, then I'd understand that I've got 50 messages, regardless of their content. But if they are talking about symbol/stock-grouped...

thanks for your answers, that seems a nice bit of information for me; I mean, according to your posts, then I was wrong. I knew that IB is no place to go if you want your... how do you say it... "your hand to be held". Also, I knew that their charts leave a lot to be desired. Not a problem...

Hi there, first post at ET (meh, it took me some time to locate a serious trading forum like this one, it seems), so a big "HI" to everyone. I'm about to switch my trading to IB in 1'5 - 2 months from now, thus I'm gonna code a connection plugin from my custom made ATS to IB. Their...