TWSLink - Automated Trading with TWS and any Software

[maxchinaski]

hello traders,
i want to ask you to check out a tool
that allows placing Orders in TWS, getting Account Information etc. from
any application that can use a DLL or COM.


http://www.trade-commander.org/twslink/twslink.htm

 

[NoWorries]

it would be great if you can also supply a script that allows your tool to process "auto trading" signals from www.collective2.com

 

[newbunch]

Does it support multiple instances of TWS (multiple accounts)?

 

[maxchinaski]

- collective2.com
i put a look there and couldn't found any
outgoing gear except the "Instant Trade Messanger"

may in later versions i'll offer a file interface where orders can be placed like:

MSFT,STK,USD,SMART,BUY,LMT,27.66,0.0

- multiple instances
this is planed, but i think this will be commercial version only.
i will make a post here, once such a version is available.

 

[NoWorries]

I didn't mean the Instant Trade Messenger (which is just a pop up window). Collective2 offers an API interface where an application on a remote (trader) PC can pull the signals directly from their server. This is currently handled by an application called TradeBullet. If you contact C2 by e-mail they can give you access to the pull protocol (I believe it's based on xml) and explain the process.

Quote from maxchinaski:

- collective2.com
i put a look there and couldn't found any
outgoing gear except the "Instant Trade Messanger"

may in later versions i'll offer a file interface where orders can be placed like:

MSFT,STK,USD,SMART,BUY,LMT,27.66,0.0

- multiple instances
this is planed, but i think this will be commercial version only.
i will make a post here, once such a version is available.

 

[maxchinaski]

Hello NoWorries,
pulling trade signals by email from a server is - from TWSLink point of view - a different task.

TWSLink bases on direct DLL/COM Function Call. To use TWSLink you would need a wrapping application/script which pulls the signal from C2 server, extracts order spec from xml-string and then calls the appropiate TWSLink Function.
this may could simply be done by a perl script. from perl to TWS via TWSLink, no Problem.

i don't want to offer an extra interface for specific Applications because this would corrupt the concept of TWSLink.
regards,
chinaski

 

[syswizard]

Why was XML used ? It's so cumbersome compared to a file-format/comma-delimited approach.

 

[dcraig]

Quote from syswizard:

Why was XML used ? It's so cumbersome compared to a file-format/comma-delimited approach.

For any job of any complexity, XML is vastly superior. It is also a widely used standard. With a decent API such as JDOM for Java it is easy to use.