IB API questions...

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The data feed was designed to update a grid, not provide a time and sales stream.
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Agreed. You put it much more concisely than I could have managed. IB simply exposed the API that they had originally developed to drive their TWS; it was not designed from scratch as an API for 3rd party programmers.
 
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still, every now and then i find myself wishing that IB would cut the crap and open up the FIX interface to their servers (without the current draconian terms that is).

- jaan
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What good would that do? FIX is not a protocol to get quotes...unless you mean to use it for execution and account information...

I too wish they would open up the FIX protocol for _many_ reasons.

nitro
 
Quote from oo7:

i'm still not sure if i should open an account at ib or not. i only used their demo tws. i have two questions,

1. in a regular trading account, does tws has charting? there's no charting in the demo version.

2. i don't understand why they split tickPrice() and tickSize() in two callback functions. i notice in the demo version, tickPrice() is not always followed by a tickSize(). this means you cannot always match a size with a price. do i misunderstand anything here?


thanks in advance,
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The API upgrade we are about to roll out contains a callback that will give you the tickPrice and tickSize at the same time.
 
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FIX is not a protocol to get quotes...unless you mean to use it for execution and account information...
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yup, i'd use it for execution & account info only -- i use TAL/realtick for quotes.

re FIX being not for quotes: that's quite surpising to me. my impression of FIX has been that it's a grand-all-encompassing kind of "financial" protocol... however, i've never researched FIX properly (other than to extract information from TWS rpt files), so i can't really argue that.

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The API upgrade we are about to roll out contains a callback that will give you the tickPrice and tickSize at the same time.
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there's an API upgrade in the works? cool!

- jaan
 
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The API upgrade we are about to roll out contains a callback that will give you the tickPrice and tickSize at the same time.
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IBSoft, or anyone,

Is there a way to get rid of the annoying "Do you want to send ... to ... " dialog that TWS pops up when you send an order for execution from the API ?

I don't ever want the thing to show up.

Thanks,

nitro
 
Quote from jaan:

yup, i'd use it for execution & account info only -- i use TAL/realtick for quotes.

re FIX being not for quotes: that's quite surpising to me. my impression of FIX has been that it's a grand-all-encompassing kind of "financial" protocol... however, i've never researched FIX properly (other than to extract information from TWS rpt files), so i can't really argue that.

there's an API upgrade in the works? cool!

- jaan
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Yeah, I know what you mean. But I think they meant "all-encompasing" as far as "trading partners" and the transactions that encompass that relationship are concerned.

nitro
 
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IBSoft, or anyone,

Is there a way to get rid of the annoying "Do you want to send ... to ... " dialog that TWS pops up when you send an order for execution from the API ?

I don't ever want the thing to show up.

Thanks,

nitro
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We only show the dialog box for the US options. We do so to satisfy the rule that prohibits customers from electronically submitting these orders.
 
Quote from IBsoft:

We only show the dialog box for the US options. We do so to satisfy the rule that prohibits customers from electronically submitting these orders.
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Oy vey, I am going to start pulling out the few hairs I have left on my head. Can't you make it so that I can _ANSWER_ that idiotic question _ONCE_ ?

:mad:

Thanks for the response.

nitro :(
 
Quote from nitro:

Oy vey, I am going to start pulling out the few hairs I have left on my head. Can't you make it so that I can _ANSWER_ that idiotic question _ONCE_ ?

:mad:

Thanks for the response.

nitro :(
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You should be complaining to the options exchanges. It is their moronic rule because they can't compete on a level playing field.
 
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