Re: twsapi: Re: Order Entry System using IB (TWS) and ESignal (WinRos)
Nick
In my previous post on this I suggested that an apology was in order, after
all you wrongly accused someone of a crime. Now you don't apologize and
want the evidence scrubbed. OK, we all
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Chris Painter <Chris.Painter@...>
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Re: twsapi: Re: API bugs, forwarding ...
It probably means that they had one of their current programmers working on
it part-time and part-time wasn't cutting it.
Kent
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Kent Rollins
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Re: twsapi: Re: API bugs, forwarding ...
Yikes! Does this mean they hired a high-school kid to do the current api?
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Nick <nickrbox@...>
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Re: twsapi: Re: Hmmmmm....
Yes, I had a suspicion you were getting greedy. :-)
It's been a long hard road talking IB into supporting trailing stops.
Simple fixed-size trailing stops are a great advantage. And a great
start
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Richard Foulk <richard@...>
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twsapi: Re: Hmmmmm....
Richard,
You missed my point.. "...based on each stock's volatility." My
understanding is that IB's feature will only follow your price a
fixed number of points.
Of course you can use the API and
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cyberbri_2000 <no_reply@...>
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Re: twsapi: Re: Order Entry System using IB (TWS) and ESignal (WinRos)
Dan
The info how to request historical data is only open to 3rd party developper and firms paying for the SDK.
As far as I know, you can only request realtime data and some intraday data like daily
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Christian Czirnich <crocodile_1964@...>
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Re: twsapi: Re: Hmmmmm....
There are several big expensive brokers that do trailing stops on
the client, Cyber included.
Don't assume ...
Richard
} I wonder how long before the API supports this. Does the trailing
} stop
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Richard Foulk <richard@...>
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Re: API bugs, forwarding ...
I recently forwarded a message from this list to IB management in hopes
of eliciting a positive response. (I hope you don't mind, grozzie.)
I'm including the response below, which was somewhat
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Richard Foulk <richard@...>
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Re: twsapi: Re: Hmmmmm....
Who said it wouldn't be adjustable?
Yikes! Silly assumption.
Richard
}
} I would never use this... I actually can't imagine using a trailing
} stop without basing it on each stock's volatility.
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Richard Foulk <richard@...>
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Re: Hmmmmm....
I would never use this... I actually can't imagine using a trailing
stop without basing it on each stock's volatility. I've been
discouraged for years because no portfolio feature at the most
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cyberbri_2000 <no_reply@...>
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Re: Hmmmmm....
I wonder how long before the API supports this. Does the trailing
stop sit on IB's servers, or is it implemented on the client?
Scratch that last question... I am sure IB realizes how useless it
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Todd_A_Turner <todd_a_turner@...>
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Hmmmmm....
Trader Workstation Trailing Stop Orders and Island 1/10 Cent Order
Entry
You asked for it, and IB delivers. As of August 1st, you will be able
to enter trailing stop orders with "Smart" order
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marinindextrader <marinindextrader@...>
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Re: twsapi: Re: Order Entry System using IB (TWS) and ESignal (WinRos)
croc,
Does esignal have an API, like QCharts? Can you easily download
historical intraday data?
.. Dan
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Daniel Rosen <drosen@...>
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Re: Order Entry System using IB (TWS) and ESignal (WinRos)
Hi,
it seems, no one is using the ESignal Datafeed together with IB. I
can only recommend it, as it's sometimes cheaper than QCharts. If you
talk directly with a sales representative, they might
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crocodile_1964 <crocodile_1964@...>
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open source trading software group
I am pleased to announce the "Open Source Trading
Software" group for *Open* discussion of how to implement open
source/free solutions for trading software. Special emphasis will be
on automated
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amendelsohn <no_reply@...>
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AW: twsapi: Re: Event driven garbage
My expirience is, that it happens, but it happened only a few times. As you
described in your first eMail with this topic, normally it is ok within a
second, the events are just in the wrong
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Marcus Jellinghaus
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twsapi: Re: Event driven garbage
position
creates an
Does it do anything about the discrepancies, or just create a
message ?
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grozzie2
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Re: twsapi: Event driven garbage
re-
Well, it can be made to work, and like i pointed out in the prior
message, if you can live without cross checks, there is always a
way. I cant live without cross checks, and as I press on, i'm
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grozzie2
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AW: twsapi: Re: Event driven garbage
I do it similar:
1. Manually check/correct open positions at startup (they a stored in a
database and should be the same as yesterday evening)
2. Just track the status of orders while ignoring
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Marcus Jellinghaus
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Re: Event driven garbage
In theory, this will work, provided there is never a communications
hiccup. This is why i must reconcile positions and orders as a cross
check. It's quite one thing to have an order entry front
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grozzie2
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