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The 2nd approach from Abhijit makes sense - get the alert out there for
analysis by a third party program. I am puzzled though by the need for
all the hocus pocus of an email server. Why not simply write out a flat
file to be picked up by an external program, say Excel which can then
interface with the API?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Evans [mailto:paratradesystems@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 September 2007 08:07 PM
To: 'Abhijit Dey'
Cc: Omega List
Subject: RE: an "API"
I found and downloaded the Tradebolt program but they seem to have died
around 2004 so I don't know if the program will still work without their
involvement
-----Original Message-----
From: Abhijit Dey [mailto:omegalist@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:22 AM
To: Omega List
Subject: Re: an "API"
There are a few - look in interactivebroker.com, under 3rd party tools.
Avoid anyone trying to charge you per trade - that's a rip off.
There are 2 approaches to do this.
1) Some program monitoring pop-up alerts in TS, and figuring out what to
do. I would strongly advise to avoid this. This approach is very brittle
and will break
2) Better approach: Programs running as a mail server in your local
machine, and configuring TS to send alert mail to this mail server. Much
easier than it sounds - less than a page worth of code can accomplish
this. Than the program can parse the email body and use IB's API (or
whoever else's API) to send / cancel orders. This part - parsing the
email body, managing orders in "3rd party" brokers API etc. is the
complicated part of the approach. But you have to do that even if go
route 1.
Sadly I don't have any code to share right now. I personally implemented
approach 2, and it worked great. An unfortunate hard disk crash caused
me to lose some code, including this (had 2 HDD in raid-mirroring - both
crashed in 15 minutes interval... can you believe that?). Anyways, I am
a bit more discretionary / long-term right now, and haven't bothered to
rewrite that code. But it can be done, and it works well.
HTH,
Thanks - Abhijit
On 9/20/2007 10:48 AM, Chris Evans wrote:
> Does anyone know anyone who writes API programs that route orders from
> TS 8.2 to a broker other than RJ O'Brien? Is this a hugely expensive
> interface? CE
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