Recent content by scottorama

I am looking for prop futures trading... any ideas on who to check out? I have a little capital for deposit... would like better payout percentages of course, but might settle for lower percentage with bigger capital. I saw some prop firms limiting to one contract but wanting $5K/mo to...

I too posted several suggestions for the poll on the IB poll page... but they have not appeared on the list yet. Is there a 'cycle' that occurs? Like, reviewed each Friday and updated each Monday? Or is it more of a 'when we get around to it' type of process? Just curious... Or, have you...

I agree that open discussion with IB's inclusion is a great thing. I also agree that there are plenty of people who may comment on features, that are not CURRENTLY customers, who may, by way of an IB response, be more inclined to become an IB customer, and some who will not. However, I also know...

Hello Paccc, There are several tools, I do not use them. :-( I do the old fashioned way. :-) (Click, click, click...) But, there are several on the TWS Yahoo Group in the Files section, including, TWSStart, IB Controller, and a few JAVA snippets you can run/edit yourself. Here is the...

There are several approaches you can take, obviously. And, sure, everyone has 'a system'. Some are more protective of their methods of course. Fundmentally, you need to watch the market you are interested in. For a couple years, literally, and get a 'paper trading' account somewhere. Then...

Congrats on getting through! :-) OK, I use the TCP/IP method. The docs are sparse, because, frankly (at least to me!), it is VERY simple to access their data. There are two ways to look at it, 1) Realtime and 2) Historical data. The Realtime data access is via their Jerq server (silly...

No problem, Andrew may have been confused... it is Monday morning after all. :-) Go to ddfplus.com, this link: http://www.ddfplus.com/pricing.asp And down at the bottom is pricing for an Independent Software Vendor. Developers are $99/month per user up to 10 users... and $39/month for...

Yes, apparently, IB does snapshots for their realtime feed, however, their historical db is 'complete' ... but one cannot access the historical database at the tick level. 1 second bars is as 'small' as it gets for their data...

TraderKiosk is bascially Dormant. It is a high end product that also requires the DTN SATELLITE feed in its current state. It is a great solution, but hard to say if it would be adapted to the Internet feed and/or truly portable to Mac/LINUX. Tradestation and QCharts ... well Tradestation is...

OK... here we go... been there... well... here is what I know... 1) I don't think I had to pay any fees up front for DDFPLUS, just started with the monthly developer fee. I intend(ed) to create an application (for sale), and if you do sell your app, then the fees drop to $39/user or something...

I have a ddfplus backup feed. It is not cheap, about $110/month, but I get what I need, http/tcp access, it is always on, etc. I too have been looking for something RELIABLE, http/socket based, NO DLL/COM b.s., and therefore x-platform, realtime, etc. However, they have fewer symbols available...

Perhaps they could send a Communique EXPLAINING it rather than just that terse Bulletin...