Quote from gwb-trading:
The vendor has banned any discussion that even touches on the software products from other vendors, and spends endless energy to posting responses pitching their ModulusFE products. Here is the vendors post regarding the rules for the Programming forum
The problem is that the programming forum guidelines are missing a key sentence, but before I tell you what it is, please consider this background information:
The Programming forum is one of those situations where a company comes to me and says, "Hey, we want to sponsor a forum on ET but there currently isn't one that really matches what we specialize in. So we'd like for you to set up a forum that we can sponsor, which is for advanced traders and developers to talk about the details of programming as it relates to building trading apps. We have expertise in that area so we would like to participate by answering programming questions that
match up with what we do. Ultimately, by bringing together that audience of programmers and helping them out with tough programming questions, hopefully they will take notice of our company and find out that we already offer many modules and plugins that may help solve other problems and save them a lot of time and effort."
Obviously I said yes to that request and the forum was created shortly thereafter. Now, the reason why I let Richard from Modulus set up a sticky thread indicating the posting guidelines is because
he is a programming wizard and there is no one better suited than him to explain what type of things should be posted in the forum he sponsors. This was crucial because he was adamant at the beginning that he didn't want the forum to be about high-level scripting
topics like Easy Language, etc. because those topics are more about trading system development and less about trading
platform development.
So getting back to the missing sentence that should have been in the posting guidelines, it should have started like this:
If you would like for Modulus to help you with your programming question, then these are the guidelines to follow:
If you read that sentence above, and then go back and read the programming guidelines for that forum, I think it will all make a lot more sense. In summary, Modulus was simply trying to say that they want to help with real programming problems, but they don't want to provide technical support for another company's product, or service.
Now that doesn't mean you can't submit a question about programmatically interfacing to IB's API in that forum. It just means that Modulus is not going to help you with that question, so another member will have to step up in that case. Otherwise, your question will simply go unanswered.
