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I also hate Windows Update with a passion. First I had a PC completely corrupted after a Windows Update. Second, one of my PCs downloads a lot of data overnight, and Windows Update has a habit of rebooting the PC in the middle of the night and killing my downloads. It wasn't so bad under...

The only way to solve the problem is to try different things to either find a solution or rule out possibilities. The two best proposed solutions I have seen so far in this thread is to temporarily disable Windows Firewall, and to try another browser (if using Internet Explorer, I would...

Perhaps I don't understand your goal, but why don't you simply use the symbol lists from Nasdaq and LSE?

This is the way NxCore and IQFeed send updates. The exchanges send atomic updates. But that does not mean that a field can't be missing, such as a bid with no ask.

Assuming you are monitoring the Market data for multiple symbols, you could also publish a tick whenever the symbol changes. You would still need a time limit, but during busy periods that time limit should rarely be reached.

Nope. From the NY Times: One big advantage the current estate tax gives to wealthy heirs is in the treatment of capital gains, which are taxed at a rate of 0 percent for anyone in the 10 and 15 percent income tax brackets, 15 percent for most others, and 20 percent for anyone in the top 39.6...

I agree with you that the government has overtaxed us, but I can't agree with eliminating the estate tax. Consider someone like Warren Buffett or Mark Zuckerberg. They have never paid a dime on the billions of dollars in company stock that they own, since the tax is not due until the stock is...

I trace all my IB Quotes, and from a quick look at today's trace, the only thing I can say for certain is that you always get bid -> bid size, and ask -> ask size. You can however, get a bid size or ask size without a preceding bid or ask. Sometimes you also get the Ask Exchange, and the Bid...

Neither Day trading nor stock market investing is a zero sum game. In stock market investing, in any given time period, it is possible for all investors to make money or to lose money. Actually over the the long term most investors make money. As for Day trading your own quotes and article...

I have been using the IB API for 8 years, and it has never occurred to me to care how they work internally or whether they are using the latest programming standards or is their code laced with a million gotos. I have been writing code for 39 years; I even wrote part of the Nasdaq system...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-spoofing-idUSKBN1AO00F

Whoops. My bad. I was comparing the Passmark Dual-CPU E5645 vs the Single-CPU E5-2603. The old CPU actually benchmarks only 16% higher than the new CPU. Still, I am scratching my head as to why you are replacing your PC with a slower PC with less RAM.

1) Here is a free site that will give you the PassMark benchmarks of each CPU: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php It shows that your old ES 5645 was about twice as fast as the new E5 2603 I can't answer the other questions, but I would not advise buying a new system with a much slower...

I bought some MO for my IRA today; already owned PM. I have been a big fan of tobacco stocks for years, and always bought on big dips, since I noticed long ago that: a) There seems to be no limit to how much smokers are willing to pay, so the cig companies have enormous pricing power; b) The...

Okay if you don't believe the "Liberal Media", perhaps you would believe the FBI. Try Googling "FBI terrorist attacks muslim vs right-wing"

I agree with RM that simply using the VWAP is easier, and, btw Interactive Brokers does provide the VWAP in their historical EOD data. If you simply must have the bid/ask spread, here are two suggestions: 1) If you are using Interactive Brokers API to fetch historical EOD quotes, in the...

Actually if you are referring to terrorist acts, in the USA the majority of terrorist acts are committed by white right-wing activists. Yes, you heard that right. According to NPR news, since 9/11, white right-wing activists have committed 3 times as many terrorist acts as muslims. However...

I have a somewhat similar setup -- Dell T-7610 workstation with a Xeon E5-2687W CPU, 3 ATI FirePro video cards, and 4 x 500GB SSD drives. The 825 Watt PSU should be more than enough; I have an APC backup UPS that shows that right now the workstation is drawing 185 to 215 watts; I assume that at...

Actually it is a myth that most immigrants are the scum of the earth, or "bad hombres". You should Google this for confirmation: By almost every measure the average immigrant to the USA outperforms the average USA citizen. The average immigrant is better educated, more likely to be employed...

For many years, the fertility rate of EVERY major industrialized has been below the replacement rate (2.1 children per woman) required to main the population. Japan is low at 1.46%, but only slightly below China at 1.57, and Germany at 1.50%. The USA is 1.84. The problem with a declining...