Interactive Broker Trader Workstation (TWS) Installation

Just been banging my head against the wall with the IB TWS desktop application on Windows 7. The application keeps saying that my version of Java is 0 and it needs 1.4. I realised I needed the 32bit and not the 64 bit for IBs TWS to work. I also needed to uninstall the 64bit [...]

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Building a FIX engine in .NET

What is FIX The Financial Information Exchange Protocol is defined on the homepage of the protocol standards web site as “The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol is a messaging standard developed specifically for the real-time electronic exchange of securities transactions.” However, I think this definition is very limited. The protocol does not just define a messaging standard [...]

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Building a news aggregator module for a trading platform –The architecture

In my recent post introducing the news aggregator I detailed what we are currently building. In this post, I will discuss some very high level architecture and some considerations around how to build the application. My first draft at architecture is to just get the different functional parts of the program identified. Then later we [...]

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Building a news aggregator module for a trading platform -Introduction

I am working on a project where I going to build a news aggregator which takes certain keywords and searches a predefined set of websites, company statements etc for stories or blog posts that have that keyword in it. The keywords are mostly a combination of company names or stock ticker codes and mood indicators, [...]

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Double Moving Average MQ4

My first foray into coding with Meta Trader MQ4 has been to code a very simple reversal system using two moving averages. The system is a long term trend following strategy that buys when the smaller moving average moves above the longer and sells when the smaller MA moves below the longer one. Once the [...]

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Double Simple Moving Average MQ4

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