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The only thing that is important is are you making money in the long run. Look at it this way, the stock market is up about 53% of all days, but 70% of all years.

a) Buy a copy of GreenTrader's Tax guide, only $53 to download https://greentradertax.com/store/green-trader-tax-guide/ ; it will answer many of your questions b) As someone else stated, tracking your trades is your broker's job, and is far more accurate than your manual steps. If you don't...

C# was developed by Microsoft after a judge ruled that Microsoft could not legally continue to enhance Java even though Java was open source, because Oracle still controlled the language. Before Interactive Brokers had a C# API, I took their Java API source, several thousand lines, and within...

C# is almost exactly the same as Java. However, neither is close to Visual Basic

The further out you look, the more uncertainty there is. The market doesn't care whether sales and earnings are good or bad, only that they meet or beat expectations. More than anything the market hates uncertainty.

a) If you want the values just once, set the Snapshot parameter to true in the reqMktData call. b) I suggest that in your tickGeneric function you print both the tickType and the value. You may be getting different tickType's each with the same value.

How do you get the real time data from IB into Excel today?

Are you sure you need to run two copies of TWS? Remember that any external programs can access TWS on another computer by specifying that computer's IP address.

Don't be naive. A hacker can easily drain you account by simply posting some some ridiculous Bids or Asks and having your account trade on that ridiculous price.

Let me see if I get this right. Governments are creating more currency out of thin air, so the antidote is Bitcoin, a digital currency created out of thin air.

Sig is correct, you would have to weight the dividends of the individual companies that make up the XLE. A lot of work. About the best you can do is to use the dividends from a closely related ETF and use that to approximate the upcoming XLE dividends. For example, VDE the Vanguard Energy...

XLE distributes it dividends quarterly, only on triple witching day. The cuts that the oil companies have recently announced won't be reflected in the XLE dividends posting until June 19th

Trump held a news conference where he announced that if only 240K Americans die, he would have done a "Great Job". He also marveled at how great his TV ratings were when he did the daily briefing of how many Americans died that day. Yes, best potus ever.

What the market hates more than anything is uncertainty. With the Jobs report they now have some sense of how bad the worst will be, at least economically, so they can start trading again.

Lifting the ban is not up to Trump. It is up to the individual state governors. The Federal government has not shut down any businesses.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4253767-untangling-buybacks-vs-dividends

Not quite. First, 76% of all US stocks are held in tax-free accounts, so only a small percentage of recipients pay a tax on dividends, and furthermore at a lower tax rate. Second, a dividend payment provided an immediate economic benefit to the recipient. A stock buyback can only provide a...

Supposedly the Trump Administration finally decided to take dramatic action after a London epidemiology professor showed the CDC a model where up to 2.2 million Americans could die if immediate steps were not taken. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/coronavirus-fatality-rate-white-house.html

I used polygon.io, for equities, for about 6 months in 2018, as a replacement for NxCore who were changing vendors and was virtually unusable. I used both the polygon.io WebSockets and NATS interfaces. WebSockets had problems keeping up if you were monitoring quotes for more than 1,000 symbols...

I don't think you realize how serious this disease could be to the USA. About 30,000 Americans a year die from the common flu. COVID-19 is at least 20 times as deadly as the common flu, so if the same number of American contract it as they do the flu, you are looking at 600,000+ deaths. Per Year.