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Hi Jim,
I just tried the unofficial IB plug-in one out today. Worked fine
but I'm using it in a limited capacity. I have eSignal so I bring up
the ES, YM and ER (AB in eSignal) e-mini contracts in one Amibroker
app and then use another Amibroker instance with the IB plug-in to
access the ZB and ZN e-mini bonds (looking at the 5 min timeframe).
I don't want to pay more money to eSignal just to get a couple of
bond prices that I can get for free from IB so that is why I have
this setup. The downside to this is that there is no backfill with
IB so I have to start my system up by the time the bond market opens.
[If anyone knows of a free way to get real-time e-mini bond prices
through QuoteTracker, I'm all ears. Otherwise, I'll stick with IB.]
Jim, to use the IB plug-in, it's simple. Just put the DLL in to
your plug-in directory and create a new database where you chose it
as your data source and choose "tick" as your increment. Also make
sure you filter your prices to allow for the earlier bond market
opening if that's what you want to see. For example, to see the ZB
and ZN e-minis, I enter as new symbols:
ZB MAR 04-ECBOT-FUT
ZN MAR 04-ECBOT-FUT
where there are 3 spaces between the symbols and "MAR"
There is a help HTML file in the IB plug-in zip file that explains
this.
Lots of traders connect to the market to trade the e-minis using
Sierra Charts and Interactive Brokers where Sierra doesn't have a
backfill either. I do not know if the quality of Sierra's
interface to IB is that much more efficient to where there would be
noticeable slippage. On a 5 min chart, I would guess not.
Hope this helps,
Steve
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jnk1997" <jnk1997@xxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> I just upgraded to AB professional in order to get real time data
> from IB. I was planning to use the Quotetracker plugin until I saw
> your post. How does the unofficial IB plugin work? Have you tested
> both? Is there less lag with the plugin than with QT?
> Any comments would be appreciated.
> Thanks
> Jim
>
>
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "scourt2000" <stevehite@xxxx>
wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just started using the unofficial August 2003 IB plugin
available
> > in the Yahoo files section, but I was wondering if there's going
to
> > be an official one anytime soon? Tomasz, is it so far down on
the
> > list of things to do that, if I really want it, I better write
it
> > myself? ;-)
> >
> > [Only prob I have with the unofficial one is that source code is
> not
> > included. That way, I could tweak it if I had to. If Tomasz
> > provides one and it's just a binary, that's another story
entirely]
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
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