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How can we make IB publish a TWS Lite version?

frost, you need have a thread to constantly check: 1. if internet connection is fine; 2. if the connection to IB is not lost. This is a must.

Hi, Kiwi, after I updated to version 9.00, I made the same request (HSI 200612 from Dec 10, server is gw1.ibllc.com.hk), and it is successful. Yes, API_VersionNum.txt telsl which version is used. Below is a portion of log file. 01:47:34:195 AWT-EventQueue-0: Generating request for...

Just let you know that I can pull out HSI 200612 from HK server for the period from Dec 10 successfully. My API version is 8.70. So it is either the HK server recovered from a failure or it is a problem with the software you use.

I should be more clear about how I define Indicator. I consider anything that exports data arrays as an indicator. An SMA is an indicator, it exports a data array of price average, a trading system is an indciator, it (at least) exports a signal array and an equity curve array. I don't like to...

public abstract class TradingSystem extends Indicator { //to generate signals Strategy strategy; //to execute/manage orders Broker broker; }

I dont know if any trading softwares use the voting concept but I knwo that voting algorithm is a very basic approach in machine learning. In my implementation, I have two base classes Strategy and CompositeStrategy. The class CompositeStrategy contains a list of specific stratgies which...

Big cheese, you will be missed.

http://chuckcaplan.com/twsapi/

Isn't this a variation of Cup and Handle pattern with more than one handles? http://www.tradejuice.com/TFB/cup-n-handle-AI.htm

For a specific cycle, the market can be trending or not, but you can choose a cycle in which the market is trending.

Many softwares have custom study feature, a math wiz can easily implement what you want here.

Price level shouldn't be a concern here. Buy if price will go higher no matter price is high or low; Sell if price will go lower no matter price is high or low.

1. Each time frame corresponds a specific marekt cycle. By watching mulit-time frames, you can see how these cycles with different lengths interact as market unfolds; 2. When two cycles confirm each other, the cycle with smaller length usually has an extended move; 3. When two cycles...

All one needs to know.

you are not alone, check out the thread a couple of years ago. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=20033&perpage=6&pagenumber=1

Use a screen capture. Gadwin PrintScreen is a good one, after installing it, go to Properties setting. http://www.gadwin.com/download/ps_setup.exe

A very nice Python application with IB API: http://profitpy.sourceforge.net/

Applying CCI(700) to 2-minutes data is (almost) the same as applying CCI(14) to 100-minutes data, it implies that this strategy falls back to the popular approach in setting CCI lookback period. In fact, the lookback period for CCI (and other indicator) is of no essential importance, but the...

I want to use QuoteTracker to collect data from IB for the ECBOT's GOLD 100 TROY OZ. I tried ECBOT@ZG APR 06 (3 spaces after ZG, 1 space after APR), but got nothing back. But for its mini contract, ECBOT@YG APR 06 works. Does anyone have an idea how to deal with the problem?