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    Relative Strength vs Relative Price Strength vs RSI

    make sure to post your request in the IB API thread I created,
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    Starting a fund / raising capital

    is this guy real or is he living in Lala land ? I see all kind of red flags about his story and his expectations of the future Those performance numbers are highly suspicious,
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    Relative Strength vs Relative Price Strength vs RSI

    Some data vendors and researchers seems to be confusing RS and RPS with RoC and RSI. So maybe a naive question, what is Relative Strength exactly ? it's not a simple RoC as some would put it, and from I understand it is a ratio of Gains vs Losses or am I mistaken ? same with RSI, which is...
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    R programming for following / Estimate labour please

    You can use ET internal PM system to communicate with me otherwise, as Yahoo might put emails as SPAM, a pain
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    R programming for following / Estimate labour please

    Is that for Korean securities on the KSE ? again not sure what is it you are looking for. It seems that you have this under control in Excel, so why change it ? also can you explain your strategy in plain English, that is in terms of trading logic flow so we can understand what you are trying...
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    EOD Futures Data in Excel

    if it has a ticker, could be available with Yahoo
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    HFT strategy partner

    doesn't look serious, sounds like another bogus "investor"
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    Seek for "Market order" code for IBController

    check my thread for IB APIs
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    How did you get into automated trading? Whats your story (particularly non-programmers)?

    again, technology or programming language is not the issue or priority depending on your trading strategies specs and requirements, you will need to choose a specific programming language that will best fit that strategy. There is no one shoes fit all type of things for programming, and like...
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    EOD Futures Data in Excel

    I am assuming this is for US Equities, right ?
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    EOD Futures Data in Excel

    There was one guy who built an Excel function to download all prices from yahoo, free. Let me see if I can find the URL of that guy blog website with the XLS file for price download
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    IB API HOWTOs and Guidelines - For Beginners

    to answer your second question, you need to catch the OpenOrder complex objects and assign the "object" for OrderStatus within the complex object to a new "variable" so you can extract the AvgFill or Filled attribute. I actually did that somewhere on my IB server but didn't publish it here yet...
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    IB API HOWTOs and Guidelines - For Beginners

    not bad in principle and theory, but won't work on a real server, I can see an issue with the nextOrderID and your implementation of the code for IB connection to the MQ server. Nice try though, but needs a lot of improvement and testing first.
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    IB API HOWTOs and Guidelines - For Beginners

    Hi there, sorry for the slow response, for some reasons ET was no longer sending me alerts when this thread was updated or when I received PM. Must be the new forum software. To answer your question, you need to re-submit the same order object with the modified price or shares with the exact...
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    R programming for following / Estimate labour please

    Programming languages are irrelevant for your trading strategies, it doesn't really matter. The questions you need to ask yourself are the followings: 1. What level of Automation do you want to achieve ? light human monitoring or complete blind monitoring in a systematic trading system 2. What...
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    IB API HOWTOs and Guidelines - For Beginners

    glad you liked it, the code is really for demonstration, but as you can see it's quite simple there is the issue of "OOP" vs "Process" programming. Many developers are only taught OOP these days, so they are lost when they have to deal with flow of information and process flow type of...
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    IB API HOWTOs and Guidelines - For Beginners

    for those who are interested, I will put a tutorial to run batch orders as Python scripts on a hosted headless Linux server quite nice,
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    The Difference Between Trend and Momentum

    there is no expectation of reversal in a trend, at least as long as you believe in the trend, even though in reality the reversal could happen while momentum is one time shot with an expectation that it will not last at the end of the day, they describe the same things, but only our...
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    Interactive Broker historical prices - dividend adjustment

    there is stock price going ex for dividends, and stock splits, also called sometimes shares dividends some dividends are paid indeed in shares, which is basically a stock split. the cash dividend going ex will decrease the stock price by the cash amount of the dividend and therefore it is...
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    Need a stockcharts.com-like program

    here is a link, worked fine for PHP4. which should cover 99% of your needs, don't know about PHP5 New URL: http://www.maani.us/charts4/ it seems that they are forcing an upgrade to XML/SWF for the new version of that lib will try to find the legacy lib URL
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