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One of the strong points of open source is that you have the whole codebase there in front of you. If you are seriously interested in auditing the robustness or security of the code, you can do so -- unlike the vast majority of financial software, which are closed source products. With...

Panzerman: You're not getting something very fundamental here. IB-Ruby is not a professional software development project ("professional" meaning "done for money"), and evaluating it by the standards of a professional software development project is absurd. It is an open source project coded by...

panzerman: The project was never presented as useful for end users or traders. Reread the original post -- it makes it very clear that this is still under development and not ready for prime time.

xiaohu: As I said, I have not tried JRuby or any of the other Ruby-Java bridges with the IB-Java library, so I do not know what the performance implications would be, or even whether it would work at all. Maybe someone who has tried it can tell us how it went. By writing the API in native...

panzerman: palinuro nailed it. All of the IB libraries (C, Java, Python, Ruby) are exactly the same set of functionality, just made available in a different language. So in that sense, a trader who is not also a developer will not care which language their software uses; they care about the...

There are no packaged files yet, as this is still under development. You can check the project out of SVN with: svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/ib-ruby (http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=2652)

The main advantage is that it allows you to program IB apps in the Ruby programming language rather than in Java. The endless programming language holy wars have already been debated to death a thousand times over elsewhere (see e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=java+ruby+advantages), but...

There's no simulator per se, but it works fine with TWS in paper trading mode.

Hi all, I am happy to announce that there is now an preliminary version of a Ruby interface to the IB TWS socket protocol available from http://rubyforge.org/projects/ib-ruby/ . Please bear in mind that this is still a DEVELOPMENT version, not ready for prime time quite yet. Not all...

If your signals just aren't coming together, better to sit out than to take a weak trade just for the sake of trading. How often does this happen to you, if ever? What's the longest run of zero-trade days you've seen?

Banjo, thanks for the link, I will check it out. Kiwi - I have several PCs, now I've got a Mac and I'm never looking back. :) An emulator is my option of last resort.

I do have an Intel Mac, and I'd rather avoid running XP on it, or using some kind of emulator to run Windows software. They eat up tons of CPU. Are there any decent native Mac charting packages out there, other than Linnsoft Investor/RT?

I've been considering Parallels to just run Windows software. I'd like to use a native Mac app if possible. Failing that, I'll use Parallels or CrossOver... Banjo, as I said, I'm using Linnsoft Investor/RT now, but the user interface is awful. I spend more time trying to figure out the...

What's the best charting package available for Macintosh right now? I've read the old threads, I realize the standard answer is "use Windows". I'm still looking for something for Mac. I'm on Investor/RT right now, but the Byzantine user interface is putting me off. It's certainly a...

Chabah, how do you plan to run TradeStation on a Mac? Their web site seems to say it is Windows-only. Will you be using Parallels, CodeWeavers' CrossOver, or some other product/system? I'm a Mac user myself, and I have noticed that there does not seem to be a whole lot of high-quality trading...