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Hey Subliminal, Did you ever bother to check on Eurex's website for T&S. Nope. Trying to get something out of them was quite an adventure. I posted some time ago about this. In short, they sold me a CD with corrupted T&S data. Upon complaining they thanked me for pointing this out to them...

bbmat, I have worked for 6 years almost day and night on my trading system. I can say to myself that I think that I know what I'm doing and know what I want. I am not recently out of a job and bullshitting on ET about Deutsche Bank. Thank you for your advise. Be good, nononsense

Xenia, Thank you for pointing this out, I had spotted this website a couple of days ago and this could be very promising. Up till know I have not been able to find any real information on API's at this site. They seem to be pretty new, so we have to give them a little more time perhaps to...

Hi CoolTrader, I see you also have a hard time to find out! As far as I can see this clearly shows the difference between IB and the rest. You probably will have to shell out minimum of $2000 to get at the docs and the development / testing software, in order to get a development environment...

Dear bbmat, You sound like an unhappy person. It may help if you would quit trying to be a cop around here - we have moderators to this kind of work but we don't really get whacked very often by them. Don't come and tell us what belongs on the ET website and what not. Look a bit around...

Hi All, The API (Application Programing Interface) has "almost" been pioneered by IB. For years they have been introducing steady improvements and expansions. Everything is freely and openly documented and available on IB's website. More, their online demo system (available under both a...

I definitely prefer the iota, zeta, kappa state. nononsense

0008, May I ask what is so special about this. These days, smart people all over the world have these in their houses. nononsense

Hey pompous little bbmat, Who started bashing whom? Also no need to send me PM's in the same, somewhat expanded style. Who is calling persons being pricks? In fact bbmatt, you certainly did not pick up gentleman-like manners at your former DB desk! Calm down little fellow, nononsense...

bbmat, You just gave us your view of ATS. You probably have Deutsche Bank engraved on your eyeballs and can't see anything else. Enjoy your dreams, I'll enjoy mine. nononsense

Hi Markus, Thank you for your description. After you got your dll from Patssystems, how did you do to test your program prior to submitting it to this conformance test? I suppose you did not sunmit this blindly. Do they have some kind of online testing facility for developers? What was...

Guitar-Fire, Traderkay means by this that after giving you his honest advise he is giving up on you. It might be wiser for you to stick to your guitar playing rather than trying to play the market. To me, he seems to know what he is talking about Be good, nononsense

Markus, Very interesting. Can you tell us a bit more about your experience writing your program to the Patsystems API? How did you get started and how did you test your system before going life? As most of us only know API's from the information on the IB website, it would be very interesting...

Hi All, I just read the following on the J-Trader thread: I thought this is very interesting as it sheds some light on the great uncertainty as to the cause of the problem. mhoev believes that the problem is not to be found at his side. It is not sure to me it is at J-trader's either, much...

Pabst, I can generally concur with your view. What should be said though is that reliability in our age is the result of a rather complex chain of mechanisms. I am not in a position to label brokers as "retail" as bbmat says or either "small institutional" or perhaps "big institutional". It...

Hi Matt, I am a retail trader. I have written a running application against the TWS API. I want to rewrite it for X-trader. As you keep on insisting on the X-trader superiority, I would be inclined to believe you. In fact I would love to pay lower commissions. Please give me a clue as to...

Very well put, H2O! Be good, nononsense

CalTrader, Your plea for self-sufficiency rings a bell here! As to your worries about independence from M$, I am in the same situation as you and many others. I just recently started to look at GUI toolkits running under both Win32 and Linux. Languages C, C++ and Python. You may be interested...

Hi Underground, I am very much interested in this myself. From what I learned however, there is no sense in attempting to do this if you cannot find an online testing facility for your platform, similar to IB's demo facility. If you see a way to do this, please tell us about it. I only...

Matt, This may be true but you also should give us an estimate about how many people at ET are using IB and how many are using X or J trader. The ratio might be 1000 to 1!!!!! I could be wrong, but you ought to tell us something about this. Comparing TT's forum with IB's forum is a rather...