Sobre Continuous Trade
Continuous Trade es continuación de otro proyecto Open Source, y implementa su funcionalidad básica, cambiando gran parte de ella, por ejemplo implementa un interfase para mejor presentación de los datos e interactividad con el usuario, y extiende la funcionalidad.
En el interfase, los menús han sido reclasificados, hemos cambiado los componentes para hacer las tablas, y también los gráficos.
El tamaño y la posición de las ventanas de la aplicación se guarda y se restaura cuando volvemos a abrir estas ventanas.
Las tablas tienen gran interactividad con el usuario, cambian las columnas en visibilidad, ocultándose o mostrándose, cambiando la anchura y el orden de visualización. Las tablas se pueden clasificar por una o por múltiples columnas, y se pueden filtrar los datos mostrados en las tablas. Todo esto se guarda en las preferencias del programa y se recuperará la siguiente vez que usemos las tablas.
Creamos gráficos financieros, con una visualización atractiva y grandes posibilidades para que el usuario trabaje con ellos.
The Contracts
The stock symbol now is a Contract, (that's the name IB gives to), and includes more info: the symbol string of three or four capital letters, the trading currency, the main and secondary markets where we trade, etc...
The currencies
The application is really multiple currency, every symbol
(contract) is traded on his currency and every transaction has a
currency.
The monetary imports show the currency symbol on it,
according to the conventions of the preferred locale.
Continuous
Trade does not perform currency conversions, when needed to do
currency summaries, summarizes the currencies with the same code and
creates a money bag for every code.
The portfolios
Like the project did, Continuous Trade supports multiple
portfolios working at the same time
Now there are now two main
sections on the portfolio:
- the upper section is the old
portfolio that permits us to take account of all the transactions,
and contains the share tables for the transactions we have accounted,
and gives a summary of what we have. - the lower part is the new
Interactive Brokers section, here we enter or modify the orders for
IB, and shows the information extracted from the TWS.
All the
sections have been remodeled, there is a new layout with Tabbed
Panes, that compacts the space needed presenting the information, and
gives easy access to all.
The IB connection
Continuous Trade supports connections with multiple TWS™.
Every
TWS™ can be running on any host we can reach over an IP
network.
The whole application has a main connection to one TWS™,
which can be used for the rest of the running modules, or the user
can parametrize that modules to use another TWS™.
A portfolio
has multiple IB accounts to receive incoming executions or open
orders from the TWS where it is connected, there is also a default
account to get the movements corresponding to any non defined
account, or the user can parametrize to trash that.
The market data
It's not necessary to import data before representing a graph or making an analysis, there is a module to automagically identify the data needs and request them to the IB TWS™.
The charts
The charts are greatly improved, now are real time, and are drawn in intervals as little as one second or as bigger than one day.
|
Bar Size |
Parametric Value |
|---|---|
|
1 sec |
1 |
|
5 secs |
2 |
|
15 secs |
3 |
|
30 secs |
4 |
|
1 min |
5 |
|
2 mins |
6 |
|
5 mins |
7 |
|
15 mins |
8 |
|
30 mins |
9 |
|
1 hour |
10 |
|
1 day |
11 |
(table comes from the IB API user's guide).
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