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If you can get your conversion done quickly, you might consider Multicharts instead. They have a 30 day free demo. Their programming language seemed pretty much identical when I last looked. http://www.tssupport.com/multicharts/

Have you emailed hypertrader for help? I think they still are selling their products, but have just abandoned their website. To the best of my knowledge, the only other product is Historycentre: http://www.traderssoft.com/hist/hc/ I think Globalserver itself only imports ascii files as...

It sounds like it has been moved off the screen. Restore the window, then right click the icon in the task bar, and choose 'move', then use your arrow keys on the keyboard to move it around. Steve

Yes, but he said they are going to be extending the functionality to TWS and webtrader, which is quite different.

Am I right in thinking that this will pretty much prevent any autologin utilities from working? Eeeek! Since you've tied the API access directly to the User Interface, it means that anybody trying to collect data overnight is, basically, screwed. (Or sleepless :D ) I hope I've misunderstood...

What Rosh was referring to was probably the easylanguage print statement. For example instead of having a buy statement, use: Print(File("c:\data\mydata.txt"),Date, Time, "buy",close); This of course requires some relatively sophisticated code to monitor the mydata.txt file for changes and...

IB provides 1 year of intraday historical data. (This morning I just downloaded 1 minute QQQQ data back to 1/9/2006, for example. I think you should be able to get 1sec bars.) The limits that crazyveddie is referring to are for how much data you pull down per query - basically you have to issue...

I think you just need to have 2 lines for each day, so the first session would have 9-11:30, the second would be 1:30-4 (or whatever your times are). I think only the afternoon sessions should have the 'reset' box ticked. Of course, I've never had occasion to try this myself, so take this...

IB Canada does require the W8Ben. They also enforce the SEC daytrading rules. I gather it has to do with clearing through the US, but don't really know. Either way, their rule on W8BEN was quite clear. Steve

It sounds to me like you didn't file the W8-BEN form with IB. That is the form that identifies you as a foreigner who doesn't need to file a return with the IRS. Steve

Given that Vista has not been released to manufacturing yet (they found a last minute bug that will delay another week), I would question what your compuer store is doing! The more reputable vendors are offering upgrade coupons but shipping XP, I think. Mind you, I still haven't seen a reason...

If the system is long and triggers a short sell ( sell 1 contract next bar at hh limit;) or vice versa, then it does a stop and reverse - in other words closes the existing position and opens the new one in the other direction. These are almost always losses. Steve

Hi Kiwi, I can't see any performace hit on my system (amd 2400 which is about 2ghz). In the login screen, there is a checkbox for 'use ssl'. I normally use twsstart which has a similar checkbox on the configuration page. Not sure it is necessary, but I have seen no reason not to use...

Wetton: Have you voted for this? Go to http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/poll/poll.php and vote for #1204 under username Gandhi (it was originally a different number and under my name, but got changed for some reason). At the moment RRSPs have only 23 votes, if you can believe it...

The demo accounts do not have access to historical data through the API. You have to use a live account, or a paper-trading account. Steve