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44 minutes ago, Jerry Medved said:
that I don't know. I may be able to do news with Fidelity. IQFeed and IB have streaming news.
Fidelity news would be dope... their news is solid. With IB you have to subscribe to get anything worthwhile, their free API news sources are womp womp lol.
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13 minutes ago, Jerry Medved said:
REALLY wish they would just cooperate and give API.
YEP. Just sad how as you mentioned, many huge account holders have demanded change but they're holding firm letting the API exist as-is. They're a fantastic broker in many other areas but seem to be dead set in their... ways.
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Thx I must have signed it earlier this year can't remember, I can trade FBTC. Some tickers on the first day of trading were plain not available, "symbol not available" etc. Didn't happen often, maybe twice, but was quite annoying watching a stock surging you can't trade lol.
Have other accounts with Fidelity prob will tinker some more, have my retirement there would be nice to use em as a one-stop-shop. Thanks
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Thx Tim. Yes I did see your suggestions and they did help, I kept ATP order/positions windows up at all times to see actual statuses and that was definitely quicker but IMO still not as instantaneous as TDA/Schwab via API. I trade heavily off Level II in MT, not being able to instantly visualize where my open orders were stacked on the orderbook was too much of a problem to overcome for my workflow. There were a few other little things here and there, was unable to trade some IPOs and various small cap tickers where as it was never an issue with TDA.
Also to get around the pathetic cash sweep thing with Schwab I'll just manually park half to 2/3 of my balance in SWVXX (same as SPAXX basically), not as streamlined and will lose out on some interest but it'll have to do.
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So after 6 weeks of Fidelity as my primary I had to switch back to Schwab... did really like the price improvements but the missed opportunities and all around unpredictability with order updates/executions was a major hinderance as I need to be in/out in seconds and too often found myself waiting around for the API to respond. It's certainly an attractive option for other trading styles though... such is life
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On 4/3/2024 at 11:03 AM, Jerry Medved said:
just made it so if DOM main quote source does not support LULD, it will get updates from the main stored symbol, which gets data from Portfolios/chart, so if that has LULD, it will show and update
In the same vein... can you also make it so that if main quote source on Level II doesn't have LULD, it pulls that from portfolio/chart source like the DOM? I use IB Level II and QM Level I, would be glorious if I could use LULD from another source on the Level II. IB data is great (for the price) but lacks LULD obviously.
Thx
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Yep
Judging by a bunch of reddit threads seems many ppl aren't happy with the overall Chucky Schwab experience and are jumping ship to Fidelity... my hope is this influx of new day trader accounts pressures them into improving the trading/API infrastructure. Only time will tell...
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Just to chime in with my experience... I recently switched to Fidelity from TDA and can definitely see the difference in execution speed, TDA trade systems are markedly quicker. I scalp small caps and rely heavily on fast execution, do get great fills when the order processes quickly on Fidelity but I have missed a few entries in the couple of weeks I've been testing. I have many other accounts with them so will likely give it another month to see if I can adjust my trading, if not may switch back to Schwab after the merger is ironed out.
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May 10th here as well. Thanks Jerry!
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1 hour ago, Jerry Medved said:
here is the thing. Having MT return a consistent value is a technical issue and I can deal with that. However, deciding which # is right for float seems to be completely arbitrary. For example, I checked multiple sources for the same symbol and got wildly different values. For example symbol HSCS:
Yahoo Finance: 56.19M
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HSCS/key-statistics?p=HSCS
Finviz: 8.34M
https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=HSCS&ty=c&ta=1&p=d
MarketWatch: 8.77
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/hscs?mod=mw_quote_tab
Webull: 38.1M
At least for HSCS 2 of them were close. For others, they are all completely different. Of course on something like AAPL, all 4 are identical
How do I validate?Ahh yes the wonderful world of small caps, reverse splits, and secondary offerings lol. Yes, free float discrepancy is frequently discussed amongst fellow low-float traders, hell even with premium data feeds you still see discrepancies. I'm quite certain there isn't a single data source that's 100% accurate when it comes to small caps.
That said and of those 4 sources you listed, I'd absolutely go with the broker (Webull) value every time as they have an obligation to report correct data particularly on day 1 of R/S trading. NOT to say it'll be perfect but they'll more often than not have the correct values compared to the other three which in my experience can be delayed. I think it's more important to have a consistent source as I'm quite used to comparing float data from multiple places anyhow, would just be great to know that MT is pulling from a single source/broker. Thanks
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It doesn't happen on every single ticker, maybe half of the ones I've tested. Here's another... again the lower value is correct.
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9 minutes ago, Jerry Medved said:
which values are correct?
Its the lower value of the two that's correct, always. I just checked quite a few.
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On 12/3/2023 at 8:07 PM, Jerry Medved said:
had to do with getting data from 2 sources. I tweaked some changes. Will be in next update (1.1.9932.145 or higher)
Thank you Jerry but it appears this is still happening. Float is bouncing between incorrect/correct when I click through the portfolio tickers. I'm on 1.1.9932.155.
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I keep a Detailed Quote window open at all times, helps to quickly view Float when clicking through Portfolio tickers. Recently I noticed the Float data is inconsistent, for example if I click a ticker once it shows the correct Float but if I click away and back to the same ticker, the data is sometimes roughly doubled. Any ideas?
Examples...
VTVT correct float is 632K incorrect is 1.28M.
COCH correct float is 7.10M incorrect is 15.53M.
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To be fair to MT though, it seems different platforms treat daily candles in different ways. For example TDA doesn't print a daily candle during premarket but IBKR does.
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Yes, it began printing the 5/25 daily at 8AM EST which is a bit strange IMO.
I can see how printing of a daily candle AT ALL during premarket can be confusing because the market hasn't even opened, daily candles don't factor in extended hours.
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Seems it prints a new candle at 8AM EST and not the start of premarket 4AM EST.
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Just to add a bit more as it's something I just noticed, during premarket (aka. Now) the current daily candle is still yesterdays candle. Today is the 25th but the active daily candle is still 5/24. Doesn't seem right...
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Makes sense, just helping to clarify.
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Hi,
I understand what Hans is saying cause, it throws me off occasionally. I guess another way to explain it is we don't want to FULLY disable real-time updating for historical cause it can be useful during regular hours (daily patterns, etc) but if there was an option to disable real-time historical updating ONLY during pre/post hours that would be helpful. From 4AM-9:30AM the historical would simply be paused at previous days close, resume real-time updating at open, then pause at close once again.All backfilled historical candles only take into account regular hours so why have the current daily candle update real-time during pre/post when there's an intraday chart.
Hope that helps.
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On 7/21/2020 at 1:49 AM, Mike Medved said:
Do you have to subscribe to the imbalances at IB and if so is there a fee? (And Lord, I hate IB API).
Yes, you must subscribe to IB imbalance data for a couple bucks but it is available via API. Any chance you can get it implemented into MT? Having imbalance volume/indicative price would help immensely trading halts, IPOs, etc.
https://interactivebrokers.github.io/tws-api/tick_types.htmlAuction Volume
The number of shares that would trade if no new orders were received and the auction were held now. IBApi.EWrapper.tickSize 225
Auction Price
The price at which the auction would occur if no new orders were received and the auction were held now- the indicative price for the auction. Typically received after Auction imbalance (tick type 36) IBApi.EWrapper.tickPrice 225
Auction Imbalance
The number of unmatched shares for the next auction; returns how many more shares are on one side of the auction than the other. Typically received after Auction Volume (tick type 34) IBApi.EWrapper.tickSize 225
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Possible make this user configurable rather than a max of 6 rows? If not, maybe a max of 10 or 12?
Thx
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Hi guys,
Any progress on making the Research functionality user configurable? Would be awesome being able to customize the URL and simply pass the ticker to the site.
Thanks
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Oh man very glad I asked... exactly what I needed. This works perfectly for my needs.
THANK YOU Mike!
SCHWAB integration - RELEASED BETA! (NOTE: some limitations)
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Submitting orders seems just fine for me with Schwab but when I edit a live transaction as I often do, the API takes about 10 seconds to clear the old order from Account View/charts/etc whereas it was near instantaneous with TDA. The actual order update is going though from looking at the website.
I know we're in beta just reporting what I'm seeing.