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IB opens a new round: They started not to show volume for DAX futures (MAR 10) on tuesday 01/26/10. For some time they had the volume up but right now volume is down again (they do show bid and ask though) Now customer service says: "We do not expect it to be resolved until the end...

VB is not only sufficient for very complex programs it is also (imo) the best because you can develop very rapidly (clear language definition, good IDE and debugging features). C++ is unnecessarily painful (sure it's faster and you can do funny things with the system but that's not needed for...

Might be a setup for taking one more plunge (5540 ish).

Yes. Just imagine a person had absolutely trustable information that at a given day ES will be manipulated from some hypothetical people so it will close at a given number. Would he be confused about making trading decisions? Problem is that people get their screens and heads full of...

You sure, that this tick number is used at all? It may have no meaning. It is common practice to leave open some codes for future development. In case you are looking for something specific please tell.

Superb posting. First you show that you know exactly. Then you show that you don't have a clue about the background. No country can be "kicked out". Beginning with the new Lisboa reform packet (started to be valid December 09) it is possible for countries to leave the european union if...

Let me guess: British?

No. Demo only for testing useful. And also in testing only the very basic things. Testing results can be misleading.

Yes. IB limitations are (approximately): One historical data request every 11 seconds. Therefore you could request data from up to 5 symbols if you sent the request every minute. (But why would you want to do so - just request realtime data and collect it or (even better) request realtime...

This is not possible. Complete misperception of some people not recognizing european dynamics. You think that the US would e.g. let California leave the union if they had financial problems? The other european countries will always pay for the debt. It is only the question how they will...

Depends on the platform/software you are working with. The algorithm used for Tick computation is relatively simple, therefore it can be implemented in any platform that allows the user to write programs to it. For reference on how Tick is computed e.g...

There used to be VDAX (DAX volatility futures) which are discontinued. Now there is left only VSTOXX (Eurostoxx 50 volatility index). It has only low liquidity but you can watch the quotes anyway. All these are traded (DAX, ESTX50, VSTOXX) on Eurex. ESTX50 is based on 50 european blue...

+1 You are asking for really BIG trouble.

USD going up, no stop in sight. Better take emergency exit.

That's what they say for years now. It is not true! (I save every tick of IB data continuously with a program that I wrote on my own, no volume spikes seen in there) Right. Because it's a QT bug. The problem is just that they do not synchronize backfill and ongoing realtime quote capturing...

It's an old, well-known, often mentioned bug that they refuse to fix. Mostly happens when there are many trades happening in a symbol. (Only AMTD customers get quality support with QT)

Today, login (with the old standalone version, which I sure will update now) is again possible. Therefore possibly/probably some problem aside from the version alone. (Just to remind: everything worked with the download-version yesterday, in my eyes this makes clear, that it is not a...

Still cannot connect to any IB servers (even demo) with the standalone version. Strange enough everything moves smoothly with the web-based version (Build 900.1). I have Java Version 1.6.0_13 (which is only slightly outdated afaik). Cannot tell about the standalone version since it doesn't...

Cannot connect to IB (from Europe) since 8:10 central european time. Connections to other brokers working fine. No way to reach their customer service by phone. What do we have to expect from IB in the future?

Adv/Decl volume definition is helpful: In other words: Volume is added to the declining volume group as long as a security is trading below its close from the current day (no matter whether this makes sense or not). Therefore if the market opens significantly lower than it closed (like...