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No serious trader posts actual details of their trades on Net Forums. Especially if one is doing something creative. Most of the people posting detail here... Are doing some simplistic variation of: (1) Momentum trading (2) Technical analysis #1 is very hard to do... #2 is...

Agree with first point... My ATS is now about 15,000 lines of VB6 code... Plus an Excel front-end which is a 10 MB workbook... Tightly integrated... And does all display plus significant calculation. Maybe < 500 lines of code is IB specific. My data feed handler is about 9,000 lines of...

Skid row is a state of mind.

Why? Did you accidentally kill a hooker?

October 7-8 was August 15-16 Redux. The paper for these mostly Investment Grade players... And their US counterparts... Crashed through the August lows... To NEW multi-year lows today. The divergence between Investment Grade Financial and US Bonds... Is BY FAR the most dramatic I've...

There is near zero redundancy here. I have several accounts... And it's always one "pink" and down... with the others running normally. IB could double their systems staff for $10-20 million/year... And their profits would go from $500,000,000 to $480,000,000... That that would be...

Oh... don't bother. IB's "standard policy" is to stonewall the Customer using $15/hour stooges. IB screwed me out of about $500 today... And flatly refuses to give me ANY information about a specific trade. Luckily $500 is a drop in the bucket for me... But next time it will be...

The same clowns that waited for their US dollars to devalue by 30-40%... Before making empty threats.

I find it shocking that one can run a "prop firm"... Without being registered as a broker-dealer. Anyone trader that would put money into such an entity is nuts.

As far as I can tell... The only added layer of protection one can add... Is sophisticated scanning and error-checking routines using the API. But you are 100% on your own. If anything unusual happens in your account... IB Customer Service will totally stonewall you till you go away...

I started out developing an ATS adjunct to TWS via API using VB6/Excel... But it has evolved into a ** complete replacement clone ** for TWS. Once it's finished perhaps in 6 months... After 2 years at 10-15 hours/week because I trade full-time... I'll probably hire someone to do FIX...

Agree. It's nonsense. You cannot talk about bankruptcy risk... Without looking at bond price levels of these financial institutions. C, BAC, MER, JPM, MS... all trading to yield in 7-8% range... Which means ZERO chance of default.

Choppy, choppy, choppy, choppy. Today is nice and choppy.

I agree with you... this thing is bogus... A bunch of yonng, smart-but-not-wise desperados "fooled by randomness". Also... There are many cons baked into this... Which is the real point. Show me Audited Financial statements for 5 years... Audited by a reputable Western accounting firm...

I use the VB6 API... And my ATS recovers from TWS disconnections very reliably... With no special recovery code. Most days my ATS via the API has 100% uptime. This issue must be specific to C++ or the C++ API. You're right about FIX... But a well-designed API app can be quite...