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Hi Karl, the problem could be related to your "locale" settings. I had problems once where the program (DDE as well) couldn't handle decimal numbers like 6.245. When I switched my settings from using a "," (what most Europeans use) to "." (like the American system), the problem dissapeared...

I would go with Visual Studio.NET. DDE support is not a reason to stick with VB6. DDE support in VB has always been too limited (and unreliable). If you want to write a reliable DDE based app in VB, you have to use specialised DDE ActiveX controls. I always used DDEClient. That one can...

For those who want to develop with DDE in VB: DDE will not be supported in VB.NET (the next version) . You will be forced to stick to VB 6 (or earlier), code your own DDE component or purchase one.

Hi Chuck, will Signal (the broadcast version) be updated as well? The latest version is still 5.2. Peter

I'm using DBC's broadcast service via satelite. Works well in Belgium. Their main product is eSignal. But they still do broadcast.

Hi Jaan, What kind of filter would you propose to use? The filter that is applied on RSX is probably not bad since it doesn't create too much lag. I guess that RSX is probably good enough for trend analysis on an index (not for a volatile stock). It's a shame they don't offer test...

Is anybody familiar with the technical indicators from Jurik (http://www.jurikres.com/catalog/catalog.htm)? I'm interested in using their RSX indicator, which is a variant of the RSI indicator, to determine where an Index is going (DJIA, S&P, etc). I want to use it for intra-day market...

In my opinion the best way would be to start in Excel with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Then learn how DDE works. And when you hit the limits of Excel to move on to either C++, C# or VB. VB will propbably be the easiest because at that time you are already familiar with VBA, which is...

Which broker are you using? Do you trade completely automatic? Peter

Another possible datafeed is Signal (or eSignal via the Internet). You can interact via DDE.

Hi all, there seems to be a lot of confusion about DDE. DDE is a protocol based on Window messages. The protocol itself is stable and normally no data gets lost. What can happen is that your application that is responsible for processing the DDE window messages is too slow or screws up...

For those of you that need to program DDE beyond the capabilities found in Excel, have a look at this site: http://www.rhaminisys.com. There you'll find an advanced DDE client object. I used it in the past for other projects and found it to be faster and more robust than the native DDE...

Hi Def, Any interface that allows automation of order entry and order management, even when it is DDE, is fine for me. It is not the nicest or newest technology, but it works. One technical problem with DDE is that you cannot create multi-threaded objects. The Microsoft implementation only...

Hi all, a couple of weeks ago there were some questions about an automatic order entry API for IB. I'm currently in the final stages of the development of an automatic trading system. Because we will be doing over 300 trades a day, we need automatic order entry. I know that IB offers a...