omelette

thx a lot for the information. i'll check it and hope it's not too compicated because API's are a little bit to technical to me. i think the correct link is this one. twslink the other you mentioned is more reffering to the yahoo group.

kind regards
tsdpka

Does the interactive data feed make a material difference?

I personally don't believe 1 or 2 ticks make any difference .

Isn't his a bit like the guys who claim going to ECNS will make them profitable?They poxy strategies can't sustain a 1 or 2 pip variable ,how can their strategies be worth anything.Probably better to ditch those strategies

El cid

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ElCid

you are right . the feed is intended to be used only for for non forex related instruments like stock indices, futures, stocks, etc. forex is already doing excellent and doesn't need further datafeeds.

regards

Hello,

I wrote some software about 12 months ago that integrated multiple brokers
IB, EFX and MT4 to feed into some custom software, then the software sent
orders back to the brokers.

The sending of orders is not a problem, and it can be done real-time,
independent of a MT4 chart receiving a tick.

The chart display is a bit tricky. The only thing I can think of is to plot a line for the
BID and a line for the ASK. Any other ideas?

The problem with the IB API is that they keep releasing new versions.
Every time they do, something else breaks........

Coder

Coder

The orders have to come from Metatrader demo accounts USING VARIOUS SIGNALS/SYSTEMS COMPILED ON MQ4 and executed on I B

Regards

El

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I realise that your software could send orders 'real-time' to IB, but if it is a true API (as opposed to an app.) then the trade decisions must be made by Metatraders EA's, and EA's are incapable of running real-time, only in tick-time - short of coding your strategy in an infinite loop but last time I checked, Metatrader locks out any further user input when you do this...

I would be very interested if you had found a way round this though...

Hello el cid,

I will code something up next week. I will integrate IB & EFX.
It will be a DLL that you reference from an EA.

Omelette,

I will share with you my trick.

Instead of writing the code in the start() function, write it in the init() function
like this:

int init()
{
//Do any init stuff here........

while(1 < 2) //Infinate loop
{
//Main program code here
}
}

int start()
{
return(0);
}

I find it works great. The only thing is that closing an EA via the EA menu
is a little slow. My EAs are more responsive, not slower.
Give it a try.

Coder

Coder, thanks for that. I think it was you that posted this same tip regarding programming a real-time clock display on TSD already - I tried it then, and it works fine!

I also tried coding the 'Lucky' EA the same way though (using the Twslink API) and couldn't get it to work properly - probably my bad, I may have another look!

Sorry,

Forgot the Sleep(250); at the end of the while loop.

Should be:

int init()
{
//Do any init stuff here........

while(1 < 2) //Infinate loop
{
//Main program code here

Sleep(250); //Adjust to suit
}
}

Coder

You will have to wait. I have some paid work to take care of this week.

Coder