Suggestion to IB

[kiwi_trader]

Quote from rock34748:

Weekends are when their servers are mostly non-functional under IB's I.T. load testing updating etc... I certainly understand why they don't want to have connections during weekends. Keeps costs down for them and hopefully their customers.

Now the idea of flipping a software switch and say archiving 1 or 2 days of data for "connecting" to the demo during the weekend is a great idea. I'm with you folks on that one.

I'll vote for this too.

 

[scriabinop23]

Quote from nitro:

I think you are reading too much into me wanting to use the demo account. I have a normal IB account and I am developing the system on the "real simulated account." But on weekends or at night, there is no (real) data. That is a huge time waste for me. It is no extra work to have my systems running at all ours of the day training.

You say, well, why don't you get NYSE TAQ data and write a simulator to test your systems? I could do that, but the costs are enourmous, not just in data fees, but in programming time. Finally, would you rather not have real data instead of simulated data? IB is an extraordinarily reasonable firm and they follow the golden rule of the customer is always right, and if enough people say they desire something, by gosh it eventually gets implemented. You guys have no idea how huge this is.

Trading is hard, and as others have said on ET, many are called, but few are chosen.

nitro - just so you know, ninjatrader lets you capture and replay a feed. So you already have this feature. Problem is, ninja needs to be on the whole time to record the feed, and your instruments must be selected ahead of time.

 

[nitro]

scriabinop23,

Thank you for the suggestion. I will look into this platform.

I have already written a data capture utility that is able to replay the day, although only for one symbol at a time, not a packet of symbol price changes. The key is to be able to send orders to an simulated order management system that then fills based on reasonable conditions, e.g., like IB. Maybe I need to roll up the sleeves and take one extra step to do my own little order fill/entry engine system. I have written one of these too, it just has no notion of filling fake orders.

Putting all these systems together into a simulator may not be that time consuming...

Quote from scriabinop23:

nitro - just so you know, ninjatrader lets you capture and replay a feed. So you already have this feature. Problem is, ninja needs to be on the whole time to record the feed, and your instruments must be selected ahead of time.

 

[newguy05]

Quote from HateBanks:

so after 8 years you still need DEMO

I knew trading is hard, but is it impossible

are we all short term fools ????????

you are an idiot, what's wrong with having a demo account? maybe they need to test a new trading system via the api, or maybe to try out a new trading style?

why would you make fun of someone because they want to have a demo account....

and yes i agree, demo account should replay the previous day's action, it would make api testing so much more meaningful.