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Until recently I felt the exact same way. My primary computer is a 3-year old Dell T7610 workstation with a Xeon E5-2687W v2 processor, 64GB RAM, 4 x 500GB SATA SSD drives. Cost more than $4,000. 3 months ago I bought a second computer to use as a backup and to test software before installing...

At 09:30AM, when the market is at its busiest, use Task Manager to see how heavy your CPU is being used. Even with 50 charts, I would be surprised if you were using more than 20% of your CPU. Also, when you said: "I am running with Dell workstation T-7500 but it is giving headaches", what...

The QQQ closing prices of 165.29 was very accurate because this morning the ETF sponsor reported the closing Net Asset Value of 165.25, only 4 cents off the close. My _guess_ is that the QQQ and the NDX have slightly different component weightings. The ETF's components are updated every night...

I will accept that you need 12 monitors. But you have given us no clue as to why you need a Xeon process much less a workstation. What CPU intensive tasks will you be doing? Remember that the most of the work of driving the monitors in done by be graphics card(s), not the main CPU.

Basically I had to replicate all the functions that the TWS GUI provides that I need: Producing trade reports, a way to display bid/asks/last quotes for specific stocks, and alerts. My reasons for going through all that trouble were: a) I wanted my system to run unattended starting from 4AM, b)...

Wow. Very impressive program. Wish I had known about IBController before I converted my system from using TWS to using the IB Gateway. I may have gone in a different direction. I do miss some of the TWS features.

I agree that the gateway will probably disconnect also, and the app will have to handle that exception. I was addressing not only the disconnect, but Cyrix's statement that he/she wanted the app to run 24/7. TWS cannot run 24/7, but the Gateway can.

Instead of using TWS, consider running the IB Gateway and have your program connect to it. The Gateway can run literally run for months without having to be restarted. You will only have to make very minor changes to your API program to connect to the IB Gateway vs TWS, such as the connection...

A significant part of the aid is also for benefit to US corporations, where the US grants aid to countries specifically to buy products from US corporations, especially weapons, pharmaceuticals and farm products. Plus there is medical aid to stop outbreaks of diseases before they can spread to...

More than 50% of the people on food stamps work. 15% of Walmart employees, and 2% of the military are on food stamps. What do you suggest that the working poor do?

The famous Marshmallow test was flawed in so many ways. Which kids were most likely to immediately eat the marshmallow? Poor kids, because they have quickly learned in life that when you get something, use it immediately because it may not be around later. These poor kids already had the deck...

First, take everything Apple says with a grain of salt because they are masters of double-speak. Apple didn't say that it would bring back $252 billion; what it said is that it would pay the tax owed on the $252 billion. Whether it brings it back is another story, but after the tax is paid, it...

I would suspect that sms/email is not working from your system. To test, ask the programmer to build a very simple app that does nothing but send an sms and email message from your system. Assuming it doesn't work, start troubleshooting from there.

Warren Buffet in Barron's interview Aug. 18, 2017 On why he doesn’t invest in gold: “You could take all the gold that’s ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 68 feet in each direction. For what that’s worth at current gold prices, you could buy all—not some—of the farmland in the U.S. Plus...

There is no way that cryptocurrencies can have either lower transaction costs (not fees) or faster processing than traditional methods. Every crypto transcation requires recalculating the entire blockchain, hence the need for so much computing power and electricity to process a single transaction.

The number of Bitcoins is limited to 21 million. To exceed 20 trillion, each bitcoin would have to sell for nearly $1 million.

Not at InteractiveBrokers. Mimimum account is $10,000 ($5,000 for IRA or customers under 25). But I did wonder where truetype got the "90% of ETers struggle to find enough money to open an IB account" statistic.

I seriously doubt that we are seeing the beginning of a long bear market. The two greatest boosts to the earnings of US companies in years are the reduction of the corporate tax rate, and the reduced tax in repatriating earnings. Yet stocks today are cheaper than before the law was passed...

I agree that the IB API is not the most optimal. But it works, mostly, and the bugs that I know of, I have coded around. The bugs that I have reported to them they address for a couple weeks, ask for all sorts of screen shots and logs, then drop the matter without the bug being fixed. But they...

My background is very similar to yours. Years of programming experience, including writing part of the Nasdaq platform. Now I exclusively trade, using a system that I wrote myself. I currently use the IB API, but when I started trading 8 years ago I used an open source .Net API that connected...