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Also check your error message event queue. The request is for historicalbars and such request has limitations. In general no more requests than 1 per 10 seconds and no more than 2000 bars per request. Data base goes back one year or 6 months for bars less than 1 min. Otherwise you get error -...

By the way e.date is string so you have to split it into date format. e.date. tostring will return object I guess. But in any case You should get multiple message boxes with this code if the rest is correct.

First please check how you request your bars and start with just one day 1 or 5 minute bars to see if your request and handler are wired properly. IB Demo may not return historical data properly and same might apply to paper account so you have to watch for that. Weekends are also not the best...

IB is event driven and returns 1 bar per event and the date/time field is how you can put it into desired series of bars. Usually it would be collection or array of OHLC structures or class instances or any other database design of your choice. You can index it as well because they come in order...

Goldman and big banks are government bond warehousing and distribution operations and their money comes from participating in this Ponzi scheme. The rest of the economy is exported and the flagship of the US economy is Facebook. For them the rest of the market is smoke and mirrors and they would...

I do not have any specifics but media noise points that some of it is coming from the industry. In the end it has to appear that somebody else imposed this nuisance on them. Back to congress. You may write letters but you have to realize that congress elects themselves and they answer to...

How do you plan to defeat Goldman who might be pulling all the strings to get it done.

Yes. It can survive: 1/ it is easier to manipulate prices 2/ big players can generate more money from asset management showing better performance using the above. 3/ cost of market manipulation goes down with less volume and fewer independent players

IB provides historical bars only starting at 1 second interval. Database goes back 1 year for 1 minute data and up to 6 months back for more detailed historical bars. Most current information is available online. See their API/TWS reference guide. Since I use only API I do not know how this...

France also introduced a financial non-transactions tax last month It's not just a 0.2 per cent Robin Hood tax which Hollande introduced. The high frequency tax applies to traders that (1) use computer algorithms to determine the price, quantity, and timing of their orders (2) use a...

He is coming from financial community and oil traders are the best market manipulators; so good that Enron wanted to copy this gig in another market. He is not Nurses of America healthy eating contributor so he must know more than what he wrote in this ideologically driven article with so many...

Credentials of this Huffington article guy: Daniel Dicker. Oil trader; CNBC Contributor and TheStreet.com columnist; Author, 'Oil’s Endless Bid' The Street and Cramer are Goldman media outlet so JPGoldmans are behind FTT drive in the US I guess. Not good.

Who let incompetent people write such articles. There is no logic there. They want to use NYSE market maker failure to institute tax on trading which will have tax exemption for market making.

Many on Wall Street miss the old good days because they underperform in unregulated and highly competitive markets.

There is more than Senator's letter. There is some subsidiary or holder of assets related to the U.S and this might legally allow Senate to block the deal. U.S is moving more modern military assets to Asia.

13 regulators might be not all that bad in the long run. With rampant regulation around the world Canada may not be able to agree on anything significant to curb free markets and Nunavut will be the next financial capital of the world.

What is MAC? Never heard of it.

It is a problem especially around tax time. I had to develop my own file parser from Quicken format that does correct reporting suitable for tax schedule (Canada). None of the formats currently in use are good for modern times when there might be thousands of transactions and financial...

Markets are looking into the future so they will react to the prospect of pipeline being built not when oil starts flowing (historical event in the markets).

I think it is significant. Technical difficulties mean some bigger underlying problem and it is of concern for brokerage firm. PFG had technical difficulties for 20 years and it was possible to hide.