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Hi
Ib does not provide historical Intraday data, they just provide the
plain feed.
Best regards,
Dennis
--- In amibroker@xxxx, "jvarn359" <jvarn359@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi AB'ers,
>
> I'm thinking about switching from Datek to Interactivebrokers
because
> IB seems to be aggressively pushing the cutting edge in a few
areas --
> namely making their trading platform accessible by API and their
> Universal Account, which makes it possible to trade stocks, futures
> and world currencies from one base currency. [And their commissions
> are very low too].
>
> The API has piqued my interest:
>
> ActiveX methods
> http://www.interactivebrokers.com/html/webhelp/Int
> eroperability/ActiveX_Other/activexmethods.htm
>
> connect()
> disconnect()
> reqMktData()
> reqMktData2()
> cancelMktData()
> placeOrder()
> placeOrder2()
> cancelOrder()
> reqOpenOrders()
> reqAccountUpdates()
> reqExecutions()
> getIds()
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has hooked up AmiB RT to the IB feed.
>
> The placeOrder() and cancelOrder() has me very interested -- this
> opens up the possibility to write a program for robotic trading. I
can
> easily imagine an AFL that watches a basket of 100 stocks for
intraday
> breakouts, issues a buy order and sends a pager alert to me.
>
> Jim
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