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neo: how many are many contracts? 50, 100?

That's funny, they protect their source code but customer's orders are unencripted and visible to anyone with an interest. As for the API, yes I agree with you Sascha, it's not a lot of programming they have to do. They don't even have to release the source code, just header files and...

Depending on the interest that this generates I am in. Def already mentioned that IB is commited to its ctci/fix interface and doesn't want to make an alternative offer, so I am not holding my breath about IB's cooperation. I would recommend to use J-Trader. It would be a much more solid...

Thanks for the advice Private. I was trying to help Kicking find a copy. Which newer books would you recommend? It's real hard to find any good books about stock index trading. I haven't heard a lot about Gary Smith recently, either. He used to post in misc.invest.futures, until last year.

Today i got my "Live the dream..." by Gary Smith. It's $59 at www.rb-trading.com. I ordered it last week, so I guess they still might have some in stock.

I am reposting the latest from that list. From: "Phil" <lists@s...> Date: Thu Nov 8, 2001 11:43 am Subject: AW: [ats-forum] Re: Trading platform & datafeed - Interactive Brokers Hy Rainer and Kevin I would like to tell you both some points out of my experience. Maybe you will...

Are these people saying that orders will execute faster if they are sent with the keyboard instead of with the mouse? No wonder they are using IB.

check www.elocaltrading.com. cheaper and faster than IB. offers 2500 daytrading margin for the nasdaq and sp500 mini, J-trader software is free. they require $500 minimum commissions a month (about 100 trades a month) and $7500 minimum opening account. so if you are going to be trading a lot...

thanks a lot neo for the info. IB does program trading, they are in the top 10 institutional program traders, and they charge very low commishs because i figure they get order flow info from daytraders. i don't think cheap service (no phone calls, statements etc.) is the only reason they are...

neo: hi, your automation project looks quite interesting and looks like you are struggling with the same problems as i am, for example ib's lack of not-FIX api interface. what in your opinion can we, robot programmers, do to make ib release that api. i have almost decided to open an...

Hey everybody, thanks for the feedback. When I talked about "data reading" i did not mean price data reading i meant internal data reading like open positions, trade status (confirmed, etc.) account status, network status and the like. In any case I don't think anybody would be interested...

Thanks Def for your response. I agree that the FIX interface is what institutions need but i also think it is too much for the average individual futures trader. Even if minimum commishes req are relaxed what about the arrangements for the T1 connection, special hardware etc. etc. I want a...

Hey there Def I don't understand why it's so difficult to give API access from the TWS front end. What people want is just automation, so a simple COM object or an Automation server is enough. IB programmers should be able to do this in one night... I am considering paying 25$ r/t to zap just...