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Hi Nick, the program Im using now isn't yet finished. But some time ago I posted the attached zero version 'Excel_TWSv2.0.xls' to the German Elite Trading Forum. In addition to the Excel file, you may find an additional manual and similar material there. Reading the VBA Code you should...

Hi Nick, you got the right end. To connect with interactive Brokers TWS I use their activeX control. The control's ''tickprice' and ticksize' events push data realtime into Excel VBA. My 'mNow' function timestamps them. Old data are shifted down one row by an 'Insert'-command and...

A two part question: 1. Trading Futures: What existing tools would you advice using best to get an intuitive feeling for your trade opportunities? --- Sometimes I think, it could be interesting so see how this or that calculation result would behave visually, but find it impossible to...

Hi, converting IB ticks (ticks in the sense of incoming data) is possible in several ways and can be done even with Excel. But this way it's impossible to get real ticks (ticks in the sense of single trades) cause IB simply doesn't transfer real ticks but 0.3 second bar data only. For data...

Hi e-miNY and stock777 IB is much faster in data delivery than the usual data provider and IB data are very accurate in timeframes of more than 0.3 seconds. But you are right as the timeframe below 0.2 till 0.3 second is concerned. In regard to this short timeframe you have to...

Hi, you can collect IB data with excel too. A DDE connection is demonstrated by IB in their demo file 'TwsDde.xls' in your 'C:\Jts\Excel'-Folder. More stable than the old fashioned DDE is their activeX Control available for data import via Visual Basic. A ready made solution is...

Hi, the best suitable data provider is pretty important to traders. Sources often mentioned are Brokers like InteractiveBrokers and data providers like eSignal and DTN. Which of them is the best provider? It depends on your trading needs, since each possibility has got some...

Hi, Both proposals are accepted by IB: suggestion 1035 (69 Votes) Implementation Scheduled suggestion 1044 (53 Votes) Implementation in Progress see: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/poll/poll.php?ib_entity=llc Congratulation Kiwi! PS Does suggestion 1035 (=charting data...

Thank you @sim03

new to this forum I would like to know, how to link directly to another posting - not only page 2 of thread xxxx, but presenting the posting itself in top position? Getting the posting number (for example 1128283) by investigating the 'Quote' button I tried address strings like...