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Postby blr121970 » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:58 pm

I took a look at their help file - not very impressed - looks like it was documented by a developer :D.
But I should be able to do it (for free - just as a contribution to this group - since I haven't contributed much).

If I understood the requirement correctly - you need a way to send the buy and sell orders to the FX broker from your TS strategies.

I will implement it as a TS extension DLL and you will have to call methods in it.

E.g: as I see it:

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If marketposition = 0 then begin
     if _Buy then   begin
         Buy this bar
         // Here call a method in the DLL to buy
        ...........
     end
     else if _Short then begin
         SellShort this bar;
         // Here call a method in the DLL to sell short
        ...........
     end;
end;


Is my understanding correct?

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Postby eudamonia » Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:07 pm

Thank you, that's very generous.

Yes I believe your logic is correct. Is there any way that you can have it check to make sure that the TS strategies are synchronized with EFX's orders? Thanks.

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Postby blr121970 » Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:10 pm

You mean the orders are in sync? - yes I should be able to do it.

I shall throw an alert if they aren't.

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Postby eudamonia » Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:13 pm

That would work perfectly. Thanks.

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Postby Luke » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:56 am

JPT wrote:Michal:

Any suggestions where we can get an article about C# for a dummy? I have the Delphi stuff but it seems that C# is going to be more popular. Do I just go buy a text book?

thanks
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If you are unfamiliar with both c# and Delphi, I suggest you spend your time learning Delphi. Most of the programming skills you will need are pretty basic; it is more a matter of learning the NeoTicker object model. That is the same for all the languages so if you choose to switch later you can. Most people I know use Delphi but it is possible there is a small .Net group growing.

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Postby eudamonia » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:26 pm

blr121970,

Pardon my ignorance but how complicated is putting this API functionality together? Just out of curiousity I contacted one of my programmers who quoted me about $10-15k to put this together and test it. Is this really that much work (100 hours +)? If so you are definately incredible!

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Postby blr121970 » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:10 pm

Edward,

It will probably take me a week part time.
It is slighlty complicated because of the usage of MFC in their API and callbacks for statuses. I hate MFC.
If only they had kept it simple - it would be easier on me.
But they probably wanted automation and such (for supporting Excel, VB, etc).

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Postby eudamonia » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:05 pm

Wow you're a lot faster than my hired gun. Still it sounds like a fair amount of programming. Thanks so much for your hard work.

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Postby michal.kreslik » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:58 pm

Ed, one guy at the Yahoo MBT SDK support group suggested looking at:

http://www.tradebullet.com

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Postby eudamonia » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:19 pm

Michal,

I can't believe I overlooked Tradebullet. Well I will definately check them out. Thank you.

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