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The duplicate size problem is discussed here (IB login required): http://www.interactivebrokers.com/cgi-bin/discus/board-auth.pl?file=/2/40099.html Here is an expert from Richard King: The IB datafeed is optimised to ensure that it keeps up with the market no matter how busy the market...

I was only trying make the distinction between newbies that loose because their actions are random vs. those that loose because their actions are correct except they are on the wrong side of too many otherwise winning trades. Following random newbies you will loose by reversing what they do and...

The house always has the edge with random gambling so you still loose taking the opposite side. In trading you might possibly have an edge, but to think a newbie has an edge and just happens to be taking the wrong side of each trade is optimistic at best. Newbies with no edge are random and...

If you set up a computer to randomly trade (long and short) you loose money. If you have another computer doing the opposite trades you still loose money. The two computers are randomly up and down at opposite times but over the long run the win/loss is 50/50 and with commissions it is a...

There are some things you can do to speed up scripts but it's been a while since I've used WLD. I am wondering why you don't post you questions on the WealthLab site, that's where the party is. Here we are all old geezers who have long since converted our algo's to assembly language. :)

I have found limit order fills to be quite good on IB with thinly traded stocks. I have had odd lot buy orders trigger below the official low for the day even. I suspect they combine orders to make trades sometimes. For example, if I have a limit buy order for 50 @ $20.50 and there is limit...

Not to quibble but wouldn't that be a 1:3 ratio? :) Still equally impressive though.

BlueStreek, You can use http://tinyurl.com to solve your long URL problem. I gave them your long Yahoo URL and they made it look like this: http://tinyurl.com/y5crfo. (it's magic!)

You might have a better chance of a reply on the IB BBS: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/cgi-pub/discus/discus.pl I use an AutoIt script to launch TWS so I can't help you.

Try: http://clearstation.etrade.com/ Simulationed commissions are E*TRADE rates however, not IB's nice rates. But they do have a simulated trading feature once you register.

Bragging about the size of your orderID??? That's a new one!

You question has been covered in depth on the IB technical BBS at: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/education/discussionForum.php Log in and choose TWS API, then search for "orderID". The short answer is to keep a "global" orderID variable that you get once at startup an...

My understanding is that it is not IB's computer that is canceling the order, it is the computer at the exchange. That is where the decision is ultimately made (unless your limit price is totally out of whack in which case IB will inform you immediately). Also, NASDAQ may not have an official...

I agree with your first sentence and disagree with the second. A few years ago Window 95 and Microsoft Office cost a few hundred dollars. Now Ubuntu (Linux) is free and I think anyone who has used it would agree that Ubuntu has at least matched the Windows 95/Office era software in features...

One big difference between JSystemTrader and frostengine is JSystemTrader distributes his Java source code and others are starting to contribute. It seems to be headed in the direction of an open source project on SourceForge along with their license/disclaimers. That should offer the...

Found it: http://www.investordelivery.com in case anyone else is interested.

You are right, IB is wrong. Choose "View page source" and look at the HTML, there is no Java applet in the trouble ticket web page. The only way you would NOT see Java in your process list with Java running would be if you never installed the Sun Java VM. You would then see the old...

As with most ATS stock traders I find quarterly reports a waste of trees. I found a way to stop them last year by registering myself and my broker on some web site. Now I want to stop them for another account I am trading and I can't find that web site. Does anyone know where that is?

I agree 100%. Consider this: if you started with your software and laid a UI on top of it to set the parameters, plus added few more parameters as to not give away your specific strategy then you would have a "generalized" platform for automating that kind of trading, and it would require no...

You might look into TradeOptimizer. They are only accepting new customers "by invitation only" and they are looking for people who make 40 to 100 trades a day manually so you might qualify. It has many features that fit this style of trading and it comes highly recommended (search on posts by...