The best way to generate an ID is have IB do it for you... when you connect to the socket IB will call a function on your eWrapper called next...
yeah we try to make it simple and it's definately free (outside of commissions). Here is a greybox example that is included you can try out and...
fundjunkie, that's correct... it's totally open and ala carte, so if you want to build your own proprietary app using the library.. it's...
yes tradelink is c# c# is not really comparable to c++. c++ will always be around, but yes the trend for typical programming tasks is...
no tradelink does not support easylanguage... there is a tradelink-users group where we share code and talk about different ways to program...
I have never used MC... but their website says the portfolio capable versions of MC cost between $1400 and $10k?...
I have never used multicharts and I don't personally know anyone who uses it, but I know it's popular and has a lot of features. Plus I see it...
AC3... http://wealth-lab.net has a GUI-drag and drop system builder, with canned indicators... you just drop the indicators and link them...
well an inexpensive and pretty simple way to start would be to open an interactive brokers account. they support institutional trading, support...
what broker do you use? chances are they have a platform already. what types of strategies are you wanting to develop? (daytrade, pairs,...
SCT = Seamless Continous Trading http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=411188
http://tradelink.googlecode.com is free, open source and supports assent and IB out of the box.
I agree with davidM... with a commercial service you should be fine. I wouldn't advise anyone to build a real-time trading strategy using 2000...
All I know is when I queried it instaneously I started seeing long pauses in connections, maybe as soon as a minute but it may have been faster...
yahoo EOD data is not the same source as the api we spoke about above. yahoo EOD (for yearly charts with daily bars and that)... this uses...
as of about 2 weeks ago they have throttles in there.
the yahoo download.finance api is rate limited, you can only call it so many times in like a 5 minute period... so you're going to have a hard...
you might check out this parallel thread from a couple of days ago which deals with similiar requirements...
If you're sending a market order, you pretty much want to be in the stock... that is my way of thinking. Unless you are trading really illiquid...
http://wealth-lab.com has a drag-and-drop strategy design interface. I think there is another thread on elite-trader about GUI trading design...
Separate names with a comma.