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Eventually every tax that you can imagine will become reality and some that you can't imagine yet. This tax will for sure happen with time. Any tax that has been brought up so far will happen. After that, we will move on to tax ideas that haven't been brought up. The U.S. is simply out of...

The doublespeak is endless.

I'm no Goldman backer, but has anyone found the context of this quote? It's atop the headline of the Times article, but that's it. I find "God's work" quoted everywhere, but I just spent 1/2 hour looking for the actual quote and came up with nothing. I wouldn't put it past him to say what...

I talked to IB and figured out what is going on. Here is an example of what was happening: For symbol ABC I would get see the following bids: eSignal platform: 100.50 TWS with IB's data: 100.50 TWS using eSignal: 100.25 What was happening is if you enter in a symbol in TWS and select...

Because IQ Feed is cheaper. The primary reason for going with eSignal is that the API and support is already there with IB. Or so I thought. I paid extra to avoid doing the work myself. Might as well get the cheaper feed if I've got to build it on my own.

So far trying to get eSignal to work with IB TWS has been hell on Earth. TWS regularly freezes, prices don't show if ISLAND is the best bid/ask (who knows which other routes - that's just one I noticed), and I don't get market data for S&P Midcap futures (again, who knows what else isn't coming...

Why not? The API is calling TWS for the data not eSignal. It doesn't seem like it would make a difference how TWS gets its data.

I just set up IB TWS with eSignal so I could get more data coming in (more symbols). TWS seems to operate just fine with the eSignal data, but when I use my Visual Basic API it makes the initial connection to TWS without any problems, but then seems to lose the connection right away. When I...

Bump. I was about to ask the same question, word for word. Right now it's down to eSignal or developing an API using IQ Feed. Any better options?

The problem was that the API uses a 32bit COM component. I had to add the line: <PlatformTarget>x86</PlatformTarget> to the first <PropertyGroup> section of .vbproj file More detail on how to do that: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vstudio/aa718685.aspx

I've seen several posts in this area, but info may be old or not addressing all of these issues: I currently use IB and have pretty good success shorting stocks (as far as availability), but run into a bit of trouble when trying to find available shares for stocks with a smaller market cap...

What made you choose Ubuntu? What are pros/cons (especially from a trading perspective)?

Thanks. Per their suggestion, I already installed "Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86)" and that didn't fix.

Does anyone run the IB API on 64-bit? I got my computer last week and have been spending days trying to get the same programs to work on my new computer that were on my old 32-bit computer. With IB's own sample application, I get the error: "An error occurred creating the form. See...

I agree that there are several parties at fault, but your assertion that you are jealous or are against capitalism if you identify GS as part of the problem defies reason. It's like if I bribed a police officer to look the other way while smacked you with a golf club and took your wallet...

You're completely missing the point. We could sit here and go through a thousand examples. My point was to illustrate a hypothetical example of a fraudulent activity that 99.5% of people would agree is unacceptable yet still legal. The two examples you listed don't meet both criteria. It was...

The amazing thing is that asiaprop doesn't even realize that most of the people he is accusing of knocking capitalism are the ones that are most upset about the socialist intrusion of capitalism. (there are some that are using this as an opportunity to attack capitalism for other agendas, but...

So let's pretend that everything GS did was within current legal bounds, and as long as they did, anyone that has a problem with it is just jealous and opposed to capitalism. What if your bank found a legal loophole so they could siphon money out of your account? Better not complain about...

Sorry, I meant "just after the open" To clarify, I'm not doing anything (like opening/closing windows, adding symbols etc.) in my TWS when this happens.

I tried without API this morning and still ran into the same problem. Just after the close TWS got slower and slower until after about 2 minutes it had completely stopped updating anything. Again, the rest of the computer was functioning normally, and the Task Manager said "Running". Let me...