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Re: [amibroker] IB plugin and TWS 848 multiple-day backfill - TJ



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Ara,

I am sure you already know...

> While this does not make much sense to me, if true, is it possible to have
> AB make repetitive calls to IB to down load chunks of 1 weeks data until
all
> 6 months are received?

IB is not a real tick by tick streaming datafeed. It is instead a very fast
snapshot, where all transaction within given timeframe are grouped together.

This makes their data t not the perfect choice for backtesting.

alberto



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