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Thanks, I went to the "How Do I Trade at IB?" page and they made no mention of phone orders. I have been trading at IB for years but am usually hedged, relatively long term, or if day trading, small dollars. I'm going fully automated next week and need to be more prepared. Good advice about...

Hi, If I am in some trades and enough goes wrong (power, internet, backups, etc.) so I no longer have a connection to Interactive Brokers, how can I contact them to go flat? I see that they have a mobile platform so that should work if I can get a signal, but what about a regular phone. Do...

Assuming you are not a programmer, you are probably not going to write your own platform. That is a major undertaking even for an experienced programmer. So the question becomes what platform are you going to use and what language does it support? If this is correct, maybe others can point...

I am building a system with IQFeed and when testing I noticed that historical daily data does not include days with zero volume. For example symbol ABL is missing data for 1/5/2011. Sure enough when I looked at ABL in another program there was a bar with zero volume (and no trading range)...

Most older programs were written with one or more of the following limitations: • Written in a non-current language making it difficult to take advantage of current architecture improvements • Written before Multi-core processors • Written with a single-threaded architecture •...

Sorry if I don’t sound somehow correct to you. I’ve had that reaction before, so it must be me. Anyway, I do get tired of people trashing Java on the basis of old information, so I just gave a few examples of why this thinking is not correct. You certainly don’t have to believe me...

Intel and AMD (and others) want software to run as fast as possible on their chips so they have labs where they test different languages. They work to make sure their chips support what is needed for various languages to run fast and also suggest improvements to the language compilers. Now...

Has anyone replicated Emintrader's L5 calculation reasonably well? Did you use ATR, daily range, or something else? Is anyone willing to share their insights? Thanks

I am not going to argue anything, this is opinion, I respect yours. I am sure you are a better programmer than I am and have forgotten more than I will ever know. Me - I was a VC++ programmer for many years (since VC++ Ver. 1) before becoming a Java programmer. I used TradeStation many...

I was a VC++ programmer for many years (since VC++ Ver. 1) before becoming a Java programmer. I am not going to argue anything, this is opinion, I respect yours. If you decide you want to learn C# or Java, some things to consider: Microsoft dominates the desktop and small business market...

BT247, >Take a look at www.trade-guild.net I don't suppose you could fix your web site so that it can be viewed without freezing my browser? I've tried multiple machines, XP, Vista, and multiple browsers, Firefox and Exploder. CPU usage goes way up. Traffic goes up. Response rapidly goes...

I can "watch" over 500 symbols with dtn with maybe 15% CPU usage. I have a 2 year old cheap core duo laptop, 1gig, vista. The software I use I wrote, it is an automated trading platform doing lots of calculation on each tick for each symbol. There are almost no graphics (only one chart at a...

IB uses tick consolidation, at least in fast markets. I have seen estimates of a consolidation window of from 200 milliseconds to 2 seconds in fast markets. They apparently do this to avoid lagging the market. IB does not comment on this as far as I know. They also limit the number of...

Hi Wayne, For my primary data feed I use IQFeed from DTN. It is one of the most popular and does not filter the ticks. I get 1200 real time symbols for a good price (I can't remember the price). I use IB as my broker and would like to use it a a back up data feed. IB does not send ticks...

Hi Wayne, I am looking forward to trying your software. I would like to put a vote in for a Java version. Vista has pushed me over the edge, I want to run on Linux. As for speed, Java has been faster than C++ for most operations for many years now. I am an ex C++ programmer and there are a...