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Bolter, Thank you for a terrific thread. Hopefully, without distracting too much from the ES/YM/ER2 analysis, I'm posting two charts of today's opening on the DAX which others might finding interesting and pose a question/comment about markets other than US SIFs. The first chart (5 min...

In Java long System.currentTimeMillis () In C, POSIX system call gettimeofday ()

If you are running in a UNIX/Linux environment there is a tool for 'automating' X11 applications. I think it's written in Perl and intended for producing test harnesses for X11 apps. I can't remember the name, but I think it likely that TWS could be restarted and logged on with a small script...

Rather you than me. Recall that TWS is cross platform. Windows, Unix/X11 and Mac at least. With Java than means using Swing for a truly portable GUI (rather than SWT). Much better to optimize components and procedures used in Swing than re-invent the wheel. I can't really see how IB had much...

On a slightly more helpful note, you might find that if you run your Windows application using Wine on Linux with KDE and multiple screens that the KDE window manager intervenes and produces the desired result. I'm not sure. It would be interesting to know if anybody has tried this.

...... On Windows. On Linux multihead running KDE desktop, 'maximize' maximizes the window to one physical screen only. You have to drag it to span more than one screen. Which is how it should be.

Further to what Hoi just said, you can always find the list of files needed for the latest production release on the TWS Unix download page: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/cgi-bin/unix_standalone.pl Go to point 4. The files you need are those with a ".jar" extension. The list of...

By coincidence I read that article just a couple of days ago. I understand at least some of the issues. What hoi was saying was that he believes that the whole table rather than individual cells is being unnecessarily repainted. On thinking about it a bit more I think thats probably not the case.

Try the browser based login. That should get you going. You can close the browser once TWS is started. It's effectively the same thing as the standalone.

Hoi, You are definately right about the charts. They should put some work into looking at performance. It's possible to get much better performance from the JFreeChart library. I'm not going into the details here, but I manage to be able to run 50+ real time charts using JFreeChart with my...

You will almost certainly need a PCI (not AGP) version of the Nvidia card. I assume that your machine currently has PCI Express, so it is most unlikely that it will have an AGP slot. In principle the drivers shouldn't conflict, but somebody else who has tried the combination might like to comment.

Yes, I'm in the reverse position. Can't justify the time to learn Eclipse.

Netbeans is free and open source.

Have you tried a recent release of Netbeans ? I havn't tried Eclipse so I can't compare. I used to think Netbeans was almost an impediment to getting anything done. But the latest release really is pretty good and quite fast. All the stuff you mention and also a profiler which works quite well...

The G200 MMS will support up to 1280 x 1024 in 16 bit colour - four screens. Thats the limit imposed by the 32 MByte memory. As well as G200 MMS, I also have an Nvidia 280 NVS AGP dual head card. I am running both under Linux so your milage may vary under Windows. This Nvidia card is...

Thats not quite right. The early G200 MMS were analog only. Later ones are both, but you need the right cable for DVI.I have one running DVI.

I don't recall seeing any benchmarks, but one thing to look at is the size of the processor cache. More cache == better. As the number of simultaneouly active programs increases the benefits of large cache should become greater.The dual core should be much more cost effective for ordinary PC...

OK that's handy to know about Windows 2000. It's important to understand though that it's not just a hardware/motherboard issue so one shouldn't assume dual core support without checking. The operating system must explicitly support multi-core or multi CPUs. For example a quick search of the...

No, dual core is much superior. Also, I think it's recognised that the benefits (if any) of HT depend on what type of applications you are running. I don't know if win2k supports dual core. Probably not. You need to check this if you're sticking with Win2K.

Yes. The operating system will do the housework to allocate available CPU cores to running programs. This is not static ie eSignal won't be permanently allocated to one core. Rather processes will be dynamically switched between cores as the number of programs running on the system changes or...