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If the darn API didn't cost $600/month + $600 initial fee, I'd be all over that. I assume this is what it still costs (as that's what the web site says)?

Or maybe it is so new that we didn't know about it yet? But the conspiracy version sounds better I guess. :) You can use C# for free and there is a Linux version.

I believe it is posted on their web site. Just click around a little.

Doesn't that sound an awful lot like "the market will go up, down, or stay were it is"? I'm not criticizing the statement, just my first reaction to reading it. :) Are you suggesting that there is a clean way to decide which choice to choose shortly after the first hour is over? Or do you...

Very nice. Thanks for bringing your system back to our attentions.

:D :D :D

Unless you are eSignal's CFO, I don't think you can comment on the bogocity of their fees. And again, those that don't like it can leave. So you have a difference of opinion as to how to bill your customers. That's fine. But you do charge your customers money and so does eSignal. Who...

<flamesuit on="true"> ESignal is a business that needs to make money to pay bills, employees, etc. and bills and employee salaries don't generally get cheaper each year, they get more expensive. If you think they charge too much, go elsewhere. Nobody is making you pay eSignal anything...

I use both. I am aware of the value of both Linux and Windows and am not so innately (fill in the blank) as to claim that either product has no value. I'm leaving the thread because I am tired of these wars. And yes, it is easier to bail than to pointlessy argue with those that don't...

I sense religion and will take my leave of this thread now. :)

It was fair. You are taking that one statement out of context from my reply to an earlier reply that resulted in that statement. I never said you had to learn to program in order to use Linux. eSignal lets you do that. So does Microsoft Office. Windows Internet Exporer. Cobb...

True. But there is a big difference between having to learn C/C++ and changing margins in a word processor.

I like Linux. Wasn't knocking it with my comment, just pointing out that his statement wasn't exactly logical IMHO.

If you have to do a little bit of programming, then it isn't true that everything you need is already available.

Yeah. I can do that for the things I watch all the time, but sometimes I need to pull up a chart I haven't been collecting for (or if for some reason I miss a day of data, etc.). That's when I need backfill. The option for it has to exist and work well.

Hmm... It does look like there is a weeks worth of backfill available from the IB API now. I might have to look closer at this as it might do all I need it to. Guess I better get started on my port to Linux. :)

I didn't think IB supported backfeed via the API. Or does it? If so, how many days, etc.? I haven't looked at their API lately.

I'm not personally looking for a charting app. I wrote my own in Windows and will someday port it to Linux if I can ever find a decent data feed for Linux that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

If only a major consumer data feed company were to support it (one that had an API), I'd switch. Easy enough to trade IB on Linux, but custom charts?

I assume it is the Intel powered Mac to arrive in 2006. http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050602_143758.html