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    How much money FROM TRADING do you need to make you happy?

    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.
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    How much money FROM TRADING do you need to make you happy?

    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...
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    Feed latency, filling and RT time

    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...
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    Feed latency, filling and RT time

    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...
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    IB message rate and API/CTCI limits

    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...
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    IB message rate and API/CTCI limits

    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...
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    IB message rate and API/CTCI limits

    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...
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