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Puzzled by the anti-GUI. A properly implemented GUI doesn't load the core trading platform. Neither does backtesting or forward testing code as it sits there - not affecting live trading code - unless called. As various people want various things, you need to either accommodate a lot of what...

Do the math for your market. For the TSX, in Canada, it's 15% more expensive for the first 300,000 shares each month.

Different styles of trading = different fee structures are better. IB beats so many at the order size most people trade at. Larger orders, other brokers charge less, but do you pay less for the shares you buy if the broker sells the order, or fills poorly internally, or delays before sending...

Cost+ is interesting. If I've done the math right for the TSX. When removing liquidity (for the combination of IB commission and ECN @ 0.0035 per share): - For the first 300,000, it's 15% more than cent-per-share. - For the rest of 3M, it's a 15% discount. - For the balance of 20M it's a...

Thank you for your reply. My first hand experience I gave above was IB on NASDAQ. Exactly why I left my first broker after some months of slow execution and almost always poor fills. When I flew to Toronto to demo their DAT, they couldn't get the features to work. Then they discovered that...

Attached is the fee comparison from 100 through 1,000 shares, and amounts above. I hope I did the math right. For example, IB on TSX is $1 for 100 shares, QT is $5.30. At 1000 shares, IB is $10, QT is $13.45. At 10,000 shares, IB is $100, QT is $44.95; more than double. At 50,000 shares, IB...

Surprisingly yes, and in two contracts, both trading between $5 and $10 (no, not their range - I wish - one is near one end, one the other). The trades wouldn't suggest it has such good liquidity, but after the first five minutes the book is full for every tick for several ticks up & down, with...

Questrade: $262.50 ECN + $9.95 commission for $272.45 per trade, $544.90 round trip. IB's penny per share per trade sounds great, but it's nearly 3x as expensive. They've got to be kidding?

something new I'd like to do 75,000 shares at $5 CAD IB: 1 cent per trade, 2 cent round trip $750 per trade, $1500 round trip Questrade: $10 per trade, $20 round trip ECN fees on top of that? Questrade data feeds on their Axis platform. Watch out for bad bids/asks that hang around...

I found one of the five-up with the 28" monitors that I took during a test setup. The top center monitor is sitting on a box. Note: with the angle of view with it sitting vertical, from sitting viewing height the screen is dark and the top so much so that it is unviewable. The monitors...

28", three wide, one up top ran with this for a while worked well, but I couldn't have everything I wanted displayed for scanning don't have any photos of the full setup with six 28"

28" monitors, just to show the real-estate this takes up/provides (compare to keyboard, 22" monitors stored in behind) the right monitor in Portrait was very handy for a price-ladder/book-trader

22" monitors stack of three, on mid-tower note head tilted up to view top monitor

stack of three 22" on mid-tower (it's making me wait before I can post the rest)

22" monitors here's the stack of three, sitting on a small table base of monitor in TV stand is at desk height - you can see the three dry erase markers left over from drawing trend-lines on a 30" CRT before I got a proper data feed :D

My personal experience was different. Although I could tilt the bottom and top monitors of the three to whatever I wanted, and I tried the stand at all heights from the desktop to the floor, the vertical spread was too much. It was easier when the base was below desk height, but not too low. The...

Agree strongly!!! Very very strongly. I ran three 22" landscape stacked vertical. Tried the stack at different heights. At all heights I found it was just too much of a vertical travel for the neck, and "peripheral" vision for noticing changes beyond a two monitor range was all but...

something a bit odd My understanding is that 64-bit software uses "Program Files" and System32; 32 bit software on a 64-bit system is supposed to use "Program Files (x86)" and SysWOW64. The SysWOW64 ("Windows on Windows 64-bit"), contains all the 32-bit files which run on top of the 64 bit...

Due to the large number of charts I use (multi-contract, multi-timeframe, market indicators on six monitors), the memory leak in TWS was killing the platform after a few hours. Someone here suggested setting the java Heap higher, so I found -Xmx1024M works much better, but it was still slowing...