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Yes, this will keep me away from IQfeed as well....I need not only real-time-streaming Bids, Asks and Trades, but also Tick-history of at-least the current day. A simple stop and restart for some minutes, makes it impossible to re-fill this gap (without time-stamps), and makes it impossible to...

Say, you have only budget (margin and/or buyingPower) for 1 trade of 100 shares.....but you have 50 candidates selected...and just want the very first candidate that hits your open-trigger. You can not send all those orders because you only have budget for one....But what you can do is use a...

Goes to far to explain it in this forum, I just wanted to help you out, to point to the fact that there are quite a lot of 3rd-party API-programs for IB-TWS. And many have features that are not offered by TWS (which explains by itself the existence of these 3rd-party programs). If you want to...

No then you can use ButtonTrader connected to your TWS to do it.

Will not work....Each and every order you place will be added to your risk and Margin-needs (for in case all Orders execute at once), so the ones you place above your limits will be rejected.

My first reaction would be to say "Yes, it could be done with ButtonTrader", but I have some doubts about the 100 different Tickers. If your question was about 50 or so, then I see no problem >> You can use Break and Turn-strategies with "wait-triggered-open-orders" (in which case they are...

That is a correct observation...the Account-window is only refreshed once per 3 minutes (unless you take a new trade..an execution will refresh it as well).

You might take a look into the various IB-API-programs: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/toolbox/servlet/FreelanceTools.currentNew?ib_entity=llc Some of them already offer all the above (and much more), for sure... ButtonTrader has implemented all your points.

{oops my post and ddanbars crossed ...and I see we both wrote about the Flim :) } Well, in my opinion a delay, is something you get, but at a (much) later point-in-time (so already history, because on the moment you get your eyes on it, the real and current situation is already...

That's well explained, and gets my vote ! By the way: it is not only the third-party software who needs this, it is needed for TWS's own charting as well.... If IB takes their own charting-tools seriously (and I'm sure they do), then it is definitely needed. The real-time-charts will only...

That's no delay..it is the current presentation. >> each 0.25 secs you receive a quote that is current. With streaming-vendors you can speak of delay: then you receive a quote that might be a presentation of 10 seconds ago...which is very normal with eSignal, when there is a news...

Read the whole thread again, Please!..there is no "delay" at all ...(snapshot never delays).

No then you still do not understand the concept of a snapshot...it is a photograph of the current situation...I say it another time: photograph ! Your TWS-sheet-page, is stored on the IB-server (yes in core), and all quotes are streaming in realtime from the exchanges to those in-core...

To add to this discussion: Aggregation is done by Streaming-providers (not the snapshot ones), to reduce the bandwidth in order to transport as many as they can (this in contrast with the snapshot-models: they have tuned the bandwidth by the snapshot frequency).

It does not aggregate at all...it shows you the current best Bid and best ask and the current last trade, the moment that it is your turn to get an update....If there is aggregation at all then it is not done by IB (why would they?..that costs processing power), but is done by the exchange who...

This make all the sense....Understand you have two types of data-providers: a) the streaming-data (FIFO like eSignal) b) the snapshot-data (snapshots of the current situation). It's a trading station, not a data service provider... This is 100% correct...for real-time trading (especially...

You might take a look at ButtonTrader connected to your TWS-advisory...Then all you are asking above, is available in the P&L-Matirx.

Select MIDPOINT, instead of LAST...that will work (and I hope IB-programming makes that the default setting for FX once...toooo many unexperienced traders do not understand it...the software should anticipate on this !) Hope it helps Hoi

For Stocks IB gives you 4 times buying power inside-RTH (regular trading hours), and 2 times buying-power outside-RTH (overnight). Futures are 1/2 Margin during inside-RTH (see the link in the post above and then the column Intraday-Initial), and about full-margin outside-RTH (see the column...

I just leaned that NT now uses direct-socket-communication as well, so it will be faster now