I like to add a comment as a Amibroker newbie. My trial of AB does NO report the Volume properly when I connect via the IB plugin. I'm getting Australian ASX data and this is frustrating especially in the Time&Sales window. Not sure if anyone is having the same issue.
regards paul --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Jerry Gress" <pleasenospample...@...> wrote: > > Hello, > > I use AB and IB everyday (before their first T1 line to Chicago!!) ver 5.09 > with no problems. 1. My intra day stocks show the correct date and time. 2. > Backfill during market hours when busy is very limited as you are seeing. 3. > My options all work on all computers might have copies laying around on 5 > puters or more. Last you must have something wrong in settings. Last time I > heard IB was limited to 100 symbols, which means e-signal or somebody else > would be better. > > > If you want we could rendezvous on Adobe Easy Connect (a webinar type > thing) to look at your problems. Let me know direct. > > Regards, > > Jerry Gress > Stockton > > > -----Original Message----- > From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:amibro...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf > Of gonzagags > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:46 AM > To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [amibroker] Re: problem with intraday interactive brokers data > > Thanks, I am already using real account. > The problem is that Interactive brokers does not work fine in real time with > Amibroker. At least, using stocks, what I use. > When you connect, there are several problems: > 1- The stock's price seems OK, but the date appears one day before > today (?) > 2- You have to backfill every stock manually. There is the option to > "backfill ALL RT quote windows symbols", but after downloading 3 or 4 > symbols, it stops because of "throttle", and freeze during 120 seconds. > 3- Some of the options of the intraday amibroker's menu doesn't work > apparently (like show 24 hours trading, or filter weekends..) > I think perhaps Interactive brokers won't be the best option to use in real > time.. > What I really need is a way to test from Amibroker, many stocks in real > time, (probably one minute bars), to see if I send a limit order to my > broker, (which will be Interactive broker, although not as data provider) > Which data provider should I use, who could be the best, for testing many > stocks every minute?? > Does anybody test a good provider? Perhaps e-signal? > Thanks a lot > > > --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "ozzyapeman" <zoopfree@> wrote: > > > > Also, backfilling only works on the live account, not the virtual account > - in case you were downloading on the latter. > > > > > > --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Yofa" <jtoth100@> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > look at twsapi yahoo group. > > > ideas: stock was not trading > > > data in the time frame you use is not available at ib's data > > > > server for the requested time. > > > etc. > > > > > > try in other timeframes, try it a few days later. > > > > > > Y > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > From: "gonzagags" <gonzagags@> > > > Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 12:37 AM > > > To: <amibroker@yahoogroups.com> > > > Subject: [amibroker] problem with intraday interactive brokers data > > > > > > > Hi > > > > I'm trying to obtain intraday stocks data, using the interactive > brokers > > > > connection, but it seems not to work: > > > > I don't receive the number of bars that I have set, but less; and the > > > > > last few bars seem ok, but the rest of the previous bars are days > ago.. So > > > > in the chart there is a big gap between the last bar and the bar > before.. > > > > Any idea someone? > > > > Thanks
