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Buying long the 10 call options for those stocks is indeed difficult because of the bid/ask spread of the options. Even if you manage to get a successful trade, because of the turnaround of those companies, the bid/ask size will disappear and the spread widen even more, sometimes with one side...

I am looking for someone to trade the strategy, not monitor it I am giving him a list of monthly candidates he needs to buy and hold (1 to 4 months, depending on market conditions bear to bull) The trader simply sends me his reports of his actual trades, The capital is his and so are the...

agree, except that strategy is based on fundamentals and has been working for over a decade, I simply put it on monitoring for the last 2 years, under different market moods. In a market crash scenario, the strategy would be deadly, and would require to put more money at risk to benefit from...

It has been monitored and traded live over the last 2 years. I am running other portfolios but that strategy is way too "risky" for my risk appetite, like I said, in a bear market, the securities will crash pretty hard so you need to accumulate more shares to average cost them. but the rebound...

don't pay attention to "ft", it's a file descriptor to handle an open file to write "logs" and "trades" in my code. the function can also be written like this: # Define a function to catch "OrderStatus" and "OrderState" type messages from IB Server def status_orders(msg): print "Status: "...

what an angry little turd you make, where is your thread explaining how IB works ? oh wait, you didn't make one. And how user vicirek pointed me in the right direction ? wtf are you talking about ? I made pretty clear from the start that the purpose of this thread was to build a simple and...

apparently from the answers above, you can submit some kind of "id" to the IB Server for each contract MktData request, so the trick will be to manage and catch those IDs to keep track of the symbols and their MktData. I do my symbol quote feed outside IB APIs, much easier. Not feeling...

well at least I can speak several languages, can you ? probably not, Python can do OOP you silly idiot, but it's not required. That's the beauty of it. And what is it with your "Status Quo" thing ? you have no clue what's being done these days, you don't have access to every projects on the...

oh oh, someone is an angry character and talking out of his arse, again. you do not have access to every IT projects at BNP or SocGen, so how can you claim it's all lies ? maybe your own ignorance is being exposed here and you can't accept it. Python is not about to "glue" anything, or being a...

I couldn't care less what your perception of me is, and I have no intention to persuade you otherwise, and since when the status quo is a source of change ? never been, and you know it. This is just the beginning of change, I know that all those silly Java Applications Servers I have been...

You are living in the past, yes my point is that OOP is being overused for a lot of things that shouldn't consider OOP. This has nothing to do about being serious, credible or anything, it's just a question of choice and programming habits. If you think that Python is not taking over Java or...

God, what a precious sensitive little princess you make, how old are you again ? I can only hope you are not working professionally as a developer, so that no company has to suffer your silly attitude when questioned about the weakness of your code. Still, regarding NextOrderID, you are not...

To get the orderID you have 2 ways to do it: 1. Use the NextOrderID function from IB Server, but there might be some small delays in the reply, so make sure your code catch that by "waiting" for the nextOrderID before going to the next trade 2. You could assign and manage locally your own...

you could try to submit a list of Contracts Objects to the IB Server on a given connection, but I doubt that would work. I suspect you would need to create several "connection" (different Client ID) to IB Server, with each connection (Client ID) corresponding to a Symbol you would like to...

I was referring to programming design pattern and programming style. OOP is not the best option for managing orders and orders data, as the code can quickly become difficult to read and difficult to debug. Creating classes to simply construct variables, or operate simple assignment operations...

of course I do, but did you even understand what I was referring to ? maybe English is not your first language or you are just another developer with a cognitive disconnect, this is so typical. again have you tested your code with real trades (hundreds in a row) ? the way it is structured, I...

You are being very optimistic, even with $100M AUM and a 10 yr history of strong performance, it's very unlikely you will find interested parties in Family Office, Pension Funds or even HNW individuals. The Fund Sponsor industry is much more complex than simply looking at performance numbers...

I am looking for a successful trader to operate a successful US Equity strategy on 10 securities (MidCap to LargeCap), Strategy is rebalanced monthly with a holding period of 4 weeks to 12 weeks, strategy can have short term reversion in the early life, but in the long run (12 weeks max), the...

here this is how it is done... # Define a function to catch "OrderStatus" and "OrderState" type messages from IB Server def status_orders(msg): global ft #dump(msg) print "Status: ", msg.typeName, msg #ft.write("%s [%s] %s\n" % (datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d|%T")...

Any performance numbers that doesn't follow the strict GIPS standard should be regarded as fraudulent or wishful thinking