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To be honest I've only had spikes in forex data and even there only in one of the data points (bid/ask/last) - never in stocks futures or options. In forex I had logic that accounted for spikes - e.g. take multiple datapoints before the internal last/bid/ask is updated and the indicator is...

Depends on your definition of technical analysis. You can definitely get historical prices (and obviously real time) and calculate indicators. I use ta-lib for that - here's a list of the functions that ta-lib supports and IB's API let's you fetch the data quickly...

I'd join too cause I don't think I'd share that view - I think there's a good chance the account would be toast. Here's a quick summary where I get lost in the math how you would survive. Feel free to point out wrong assumptions on this calculation - it's a back of a napkin but it still...

You guys are all very worried about Sweet B's account. Over these 114 pages he heard these comments many times. If he says he's comfortable he's good to go in my book - isn't that what markets are all about? Who cares if he blows up - it is not my money.

quick question. Is there a way through the ib API to access a particular quote monitor tab/screen and either read the positions on that tab/screen or get that tabs p&l? I've used the API for many years but mainly for order execution and market data - would like to avoid putting everything into...

Or just diff countries diff customs - this is how fake news starts https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/07/06/president-trump-left-hanging-polish-first-lady-appears-reject-handshake/23019355/

I'm not sure what you mean with real money - bitcoin is as real as plastic/credit cards/gift cards and other currencies - doesn't mean it stays where it is - it may go up or down just like the Euro - but it's definitely real. It's accepted at a limited set of merchants - just like anything else...

Thanks for the initial feedback. The orders were in random order (I switched them around each day) - the one time where I got filled on TOS - TOS was the first in the order list/first submitted. Other times it was also first but I got filled on IB anyway. When tastyworks was first second or...

How does the complex order book work? Do retail orders get preference or is it supposed to be first in first out? I had serious issues getting fills with tastyworks on basic call spreads so I started an experiment between tastyworks ib and thinkorswim. Every day I submit the exact same spread...

is it possible to have people do a poll on charts (one per week) within the same thread? Trying to do a community poll - like would u trade x or y on a weekly basis and pick the chart with the better feedback. Or are threads limited to a single poll?

Is there a way to short bitcoin? Would be interesting to see correlations of bitcoin prices and hack attacks - I wonder if shorting after a ransomware like wannacry is a profitable strategy.

Look at their earnings plays - it'll give you an idea about the overall strategy. They have 10 winners and 2 losers and the 2 losers are bigger than the 10 winners combined. Yes - they take off a lot of winners but the losers kill them. Don't get me wrong - they made decent money - most of it...

Man - that was one of the nice things about it. I also have TOS/IB and Google as an alternative but neither are dividend adjusted either. Are there any providers out there that are?

Yea - this hit me too. I usually download about 5-6k stocks from Yahoo and have been doing this for over 9 years - guess I'll have to find a new way of doing this. Sucks cause the whole thing worked well including dividend adjustments :(

About 5k ticker symbols

Not much progress on this - Got accounting for one strategy moved over to the new environment. TWS is up and running - no execution code in place yet. Going to work on quote feeds next.

The platform is still very rough. You can do basically the things that they allowed you to do on dough - that's straightforward - basic spreads, buying or selling. Easiest platform ever to get approved for naked positions, no portfolio margin yet, no futures yet, no mobile app yet. The UI hasn't...

Well - you do have a decent track record after being right the first time - so I'll listen ;) So far the stack is pretty slim anyway - secured ssh (redirected port) - got rid of the stuff I didn't want/need (smtp) - installed some basic security monitoring (splunk) and deployed mysql on it...

Well - obviously I've a hard time listening - and ignored your input. I've built a couple docker images locally and just as I was getting ready to push them onto the VPS docker wouldn't install nicely there. A couple of FAQs and support tickets later I found out it's not supported on this...

I'd love to use docker - I was under the impression it wouldn't work though due to the graphical UI requirements of TWS - I just did some googling and it seems that was very wrong - there are definitely some examples out there - not sure how well they work. I'll give that a try first - would...