Re: Purebasic and TWS
Tradiator writes:
‘What has happened since then that interfacing to IB has become as difficult as climbing the Everest mountain!’
I think that’s a little unfair. If you use the ActiveX
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Richard L King
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#53613
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Re: Purebasic and TWS
@Richard L King
Richard, I would be very happy to try your solution.
Thanking you in advance.
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Tradiator
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#53612
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Re: Purebasic and TWS
@Gordon Eldest
About 20 years ago I played a bit with the IB interface with VB6. It was as simple as dropping an .OCX control on a form and then calling its procedures. As simple as that!
I had been
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Tradiator
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#53611
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Re: Purebasic and TWS
@TRadiator
This is in response to your post earlier today. Your statements are quoted in blue, followed by my replies.
“I am sorry to be a bit stubborn but I prefer to start in Purebasic.
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Richard L King
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#53610
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Re: Purebasic and TWS
I have no objections at all, Richard, and documenting such a path may even be helpful for people who want to integrate other languages in the future.
I just want to avoid that the entire group will
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Jürgen Reinold
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#53609
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Re: Purebasic and TWS
Can I just say that @Tradiator’s earlier post today has actually opened up a possibility to move forward with PureBasic. I’m in the middle of drafting a response to it that will indicate a way to
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Richard L King
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#53608
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Re: Purebasic and TWS
Thank you all very much for your responses.
I will carefully study all the information received and try not to bother too much in the future.
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Tradiator
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#53607
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Re: Purebasic and TWS
You received a lot of valuable feedback, the task you are trying to take on is massive, it will be a nightmare to maintain as a single person over long periods of time, and will possibly be a massive
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Jürgen Reinold
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#53606
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Re: Purebasic and TWS
Sorry if blunt, no intent
but IMHO and using my limited experience of IBKR I feel the need to share the feeling that you are "swimming against the flow".
1- Development should start easy and
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Gordon Eldest
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#53605
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Re: Purebasic and TWS
I'm with the rest. Please consider using python. I can use julia but python is more fun.
so in purebasic you'd
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; PureBasic example for connecting to IB API and requesting account details
#PORT
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comicpilsen
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#53604
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Re: Purebasic and TWS
I'll be completely honest, if you find you stumble here, then it is very
likely that your journey will be a hard one and you will likely waste time
getting going when you should be working on
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mark collins
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#53603
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Re: what time EST is it safe to assume that IB have printed the final close for all symbols EOD
Makes sense but the group would know, through experience, when it's reasonable to see that the US exchanges are printed. I am only interested in the PRINT after the close. It would be nice to think
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comicpilsen
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#53602
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Re: what time EST is it safe to assume that IB have printed the final close for all symbols EOD
You may want to check with the various exchanges as IB is just reporting.? The exchanges have pools that don't print during the day and only hit the tape after the close.? I'm not sure what time
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Mel
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#53601
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Re: Purebasic and TWS
I am sorry to be a bit stubborn but I prefer to start in Purebasic. Might change later eventually.
However I am struggling using the TWSlib.dll. I can connect to this lib but I am having problems to
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Tradiator
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#53600
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Re: reqRealTimeBars: data stops receiving for after-hour session
1- Not every stocks are traded after RTH even if traded premarket (unusual though)
2- Even if market is still open doesn't mean there are any trade done.
3- Look at your market data subscriptions
1-
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Gordon Eldest
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#53599
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what time EST is it safe to assume that IB have printed the final close for all symbols EOD
Hi all
In the groups experience what is the earliest time , eastern standard time, when it's reasonable to say that IB have printed ( immutable) the close for all symbols that will be the number of
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comicpilsen
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#53598
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Re: reqRealTimeBars: data stops receiving for after-hour session
isn't this exactly what useRTH=False supposed to mean?
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bespalex
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#53597
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TWS API - TICK Historical Candles issue AFTER November 25th
Hi,
I am trying to retrieve historical price data of a few FOREX currency pairs: mainly AUDCAD, EURUSD and EURGBP.
Since November 25th, I am unable to retrieve historical TICK data via API. Before
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konrad.patynski@...
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#53596
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Re: Best Practices for Pulling Stock Data Efficiently with APIs
I experimented some time ago with downloading daily data for 200 US stocks to see what worked best for me. I tried sequential versus parallel.
With sequential I mean I submit a reqHistoricalData() for
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J G
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#53594
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Re: Best Practices for Pulling Stock Data Efficiently with APIs
Let's start with setting expectations. IBKR is a brokerage that handles your trades and not a specialized historical market data provider. While there is a lot of good historical data you can
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Jürgen Reinold
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#53593
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