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If our DLL's follow the examples provided by Assent, they're MFC extension DLL's, right? I thought we weren't supposed to call AFX_MANAGE_STATE in an extension DLL? Some Microsoft documentation says that we're not supposed to call this from an extension DLL. I currently don't but I'm...

Yes, you'll probably get better performance with STL. I use MFC for easy-to-access collections, such as a list of observers that only need to be looked up/cycled occasionally, i.e. for daily updates, destruction, etc. For the actual analysis (in my separate app) I use STL, as well. (I have...

I create a CWinThread object as soon as my DLL is loaded. For each of the symbols that I'm interested in, I have a class that derives from Observer (I think that's the API class -- sorry, I don't have it in front of me right now), and I tell them to listen to the prints/L1/L2 that I want...

Hey, that's a great tip! I had no clue! Thanks, that will help a lot.

I'm sorry, I wrote "ct-armour," but I meant "ctarmor-et." I didn't catch it until it was too late.

I chose named pipes for a simple reason... I've never used LPC before! :D I had used named pipes for a similar project before, so I was able to just snag the code -- they're pretty simple, and I can easily create any sort of command objects I want. Since my apps are running on the same...

I think you're right... It does appear that you should be able to open a connection to the server directly via the API (I forget the call right now, but in the arguments you can specify an IP, port, account name, password, etc.) but Assent has told me that I must use it as an extension DLL, as...

As for documentation, there is none. The only thing to help you are the examples provided with the API. There are a few comments in the examples, but not many. Assent has stated that they are working on a documentation package, but I have no idea when it will come out. Hopefully that's...

I'm a discretionary trader -- I only use the API for analysis. I trade manually. Yeah, I thought B_CreateOrderMonitor() might send messages to the chosen stock handle, and that it might provide a good way to receive updates...

Sorry I can't help you, I haven't done it. :( I'm using the API for monitoring/scanning and don't execute trades through it. Lot's of help I am, huh?! The only thing I see in the examples is using the order iterator. I'm sure you've scoured the examples alrady, but looking through the...

I'm using a multithreaded approach as well. Perhaps why I'm not having problems is that I'm not passing the stockHandle between threads, although I'm not accessing it in the same thread that called the DLL... I do all of my API message processing in one thread and use an implementation of...

Way to go! I'll kick off the questions... In another thread you referred to some issues regarding multithreading with the API. My extension is also multithreaded, but I have had no issues. Perhaps I just lucked out with my design structure. What issues were you having? What did you...

Sounds good, but I would include "API" in the name, as well. Hopefully the thread will draw more developers out of the woodwork... I probably have more questions than I have answers! :D

I'm surprised that Assent doesn't have a forum for developers. I have looked around, though, and I can't find anything. Every once in a while there are a few people on ET that mention that Assent has an API, or that they have worked with it, but nothing technical at all. My biggest issue is...

I can't say that I know the API really well, but I am developing with it. A forum would be very helpful, considering there is no documentation and the examples are practically barren of commenting!

TradeStation could care less. They are aware of my complaints. I have posted on their forums as well, including posting a poll, per one of their reps suggestion, so they can evaluate whether or not telling us our actual buying power in advance has a positive cost/benefit ratio for them. I...

Yeah, the big guys are losing money hand-over-fist. That's why the financial industry is so non-lucrative. You can tell by their cheap, crappy buildings. :p Mizuho lost a ton of money because of THEIR screwup. Unfortunately, my brokerage won't give me enough leverage to be able to cause...

Depending on the size of this guys loss, I totally agree. The financial industry runs rampant while trampling the little guys so the big guys can make a buck. When someone loses money because of a platform/brokerage issue, the company calls it an "inherent risk in trading," and they're not...

OK, I broke down and called... It's in the healthcare sector, diagnostics industry. This is considered to be a biotech. Basically, it seems that TradeStation considers anything in the healthcare sector to be a biotech, and therefore has a 50% or 75% equity requirement, depending, subject to...

Same old same old again today. ABAX is not marginable. I haven't even bothered to call the trading desk to ask why, yet, but I'm sure they're going to tell me that it's not marginable because the price actually goes up and down sometimes. This is just ridiculous!