Recent content by psrexp

Your idea is ridiculous. As you said, without debt ceiling increase, government will have to shut down, payments to various programs and vendors will not be made, government workers won't be getting their checks. In other words, there will be quite a bit of shock to already fragile economy...

I would really disagree since FIX is primarily used for trading, and it allows you to be as specific as you want regarding transactions. The advantages of using IB's FIX gateway over TWS API is that you don't have TWS between your trading system and IB's servers. An analogy could be, instead...

Your example doesn't make sense to me. Both strategies are placing orders to close out existing positions, but why would long and short positions exist at the same time? Also, if the execution feedback were simulated, then why would there be outstanding real orders? Do you mean the live orders...

I'm wondering why a short strategy would place buy to cover order and a long strategy would place sell to close order, because both closes out existing positions and it doesn't make sense to have both short and long positions of the same size simultaneously. And why would there be outstanding...

As you probably already know, the asynchronous nature is unavoidable in the architecture. Your application utilizes the TWS API, which then makes TCP network connection to TWS, which is connected to IB servers over the internet. Whatever calls/requests your application makes, there would...