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I'm looking to use this WS library for a project I'm about to start on....

No idea on price, but it's definitely an institutional price level.

Also a lot of institutions are using the K database from http://www.kx.com/products/database.php for storing tick data, in memory databases etc.

Captain Haddock, whats your trading / quote platform ? Sounds like it is something like ProRealtime or a brokers offering which has a level I DDE feed but not much more. As dcraig says, it is definitely possible to get at level II data, as he is doing it now and I have done it before. It all...

riskarb Your post reminded me of my time at Swiss Bank on Black NeXTs and then at First Chicago on them too.... great machines for their time, shame it never worked out for them. Mac

I use Synergy on my two work computers and it does exactly what it says on the tin, in fact it is in some ways better than the keyboard switch I have used at other banks, in that it allows copy and pasting between the two machines. Stew

This change also happened on Bloomberg for DAX quotes, so I assume it came from the DTB rather than IB. Perhaps it could have been communicated earlier.

Sounds like he sold you an upgrade rather than the full product.

I have heard people saying that the performance of the IB ActiveX control can change if the control is instantiated in code or placed on a form in the IDE. Not sure if this could be the problem in VB, but it has applied in C++/Delphi I believe. On the form seems to be better. Mac

Mention of increasing program trading comes up a lot, but is this directly attributable to black box strategies or simply the increased use of portfolio trading techniques on an agency basis for clients ? From what I've heard, the algo trading groups at least in Europe are not doing a hell...

Bigbeech, mergers arb is normally known as risk arb, I think quant arb and stat arb are pretty interchangeable terms. Mac