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good point.

lol.... I second that. Send them to me if you are willing to share. It'll only help me see what's missing in my discipline.

To be honest, I'm very surprised that he even followed it for six months. If you would've asked me in the beginning, I would've guessed three months instead of six. You also have to realize, that a year looks like very long time to a roookie. Some people are more impulsive than others...

fX options is an otc market. Did you mean options on futures? The ones traded on CME.

Population doesn't explode overnight. However, one big increase in price of a commodity (which might happen over days and the food prices stay up....

:cool: Ok, makes sense. I couldn't find costs directly on IB's website. The only thing it says there is to contact the IB Sales Rep. It says the following -------------------------------- What types of direct-connect or leased line solutions are available? For the ultimate in...

Seriously? Nobody has felt the need to request direct access yet? Meaning your local internet connection is good enough?

Mmmm.... Not sure what you mean. So , the code you recommended above should be added to the tickPrice method in the PrintWrapper class which implements in EWrapper. I want to store the price and size of a specific bid and ask tick in my main file where a print wrapper objext exists. I'm...

LMAO MY friend, I don't know how you came up withat and what's the justification for it, but it works... client.eConnect("", 7496, clientId); Contract con = new Contract(); con.m_symbol = "EUR"; con.m_currency = "USD"; con.m_exchange =...

Tried it. No Help so far. :( I guess its just one of those days.......

Well, I'm not sure if it has much to do with local symbol. For example, When I leave the m_localsymbol empty, I get the output below Contract con = new Contract(); con.m_localSymbol = ""; con.m_symbol = "EUR"; con.m_currency = "USD"; con.m_exchange =...

Thanks a lot for your help Promagma I understand what your saying. However, I already have a implemented a PrintWrapper class and its doing exactly what you have suggessted. I'm not sure what's the difference? My PrintWrapper Class is given below. import com.ib.client.EWrapper...

Hi, I'm a newbie with Interactive Brokers and I see from the posts that some of you have had quite some experience with their platform. I was trying to implement my Strategy with Interactive brokers using their Java API. Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure what the error is below. I want...

so that we all can learn.

It says on IB's website that they support frame relay or direct access to their servers via leased lines as well. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/education/faqs/technical.php#broadbandservice I'm wondering if anyone has taken this option and what the costs are like related...

Thanks everybody, Moarla you are right. I had to request Margin in Account Management with IB, Once they approve it, I shold be able to trade FX. Lets see how long does that take. Thanks Guys.

Attached is the error that I see. I guess I really got used to FXCM's software easily.

This might be a very basic question but I'm a newbie to IB and having my initial struggles understanding the TWS Software. My Base cuurency is CAD for my simulated account. I wanted to trade 75K short on USD//CHF. So I was able to buy 75K from the USD/CAD pair from Ideal Pro. My question...

I'm wondering, do any of your guys trade forex through your Java API with IB?

Thanks a lot for your response guys jeb999 :- from what I see, its an automated trading system. Do you use the Jsystemtrader? Does it have code to connect the IB's API? SInce I couldn't find it and I was wondering if you can direct me to the file i.e. the file name. I'm wondering if you use...