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On Apr 3, 7:48 am, Klaus <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I do currently use JBookTrader to acquire data for two symbols: EUR
> Future and ES Future.
> The ES future support is built in the distribution. EUR I added to it.
>
> At this point I did not yet care about any trading approach, I did
> only focus on acquiring data as a basis for tuning the system. As EUR-
> Data is not available otherwise, I am particularly interested in this.
> However, what I noticed was this:
> - I start a system for EUR and one for ES in forward testing mode in
> order to do data acquisition.
> - At some point I typically notice that the jbooktrader is getting
> stuck with the EUR acquisition
>   while still acquiring new ES data. That means despite changing
> prices in IB the data in jbooktrader for EUR
>   do no longer change, and from thereon jbooktrader repeats the same
> line over and over in the data
>   file.
>
> - Typically this happens after several hours, but within one day
> (i.e., most one day sets of data are faulty).
>
> BTW, I am runing TWS under IBController (using IB 901) and the most
> recent download from the jbooktrader-website.
>
> ---- here is how I implemented the data acquisition for EUR ---
>
> I derived StrategyEUR from StrategyES (i.e., copy and adapt). Main
> adaptation is:
>     protected StrategyEUR(StrategyParams optimizationParams) throws
> JBookTraderException {
>         super(optimizationParams);
>         // Specify the contract to trade
>         Contract contract = ContractFactory.makeFutureContract("EUR",
> "GLOBEX");
>         // Define trading schedule
>         TradingSchedule tradingSchedule = new TradingSchedule("9:55",
> "15:25", "America/New_York");
>         // Not sure about the correct schedule
>         int multiplier = 125000;// contract multiplier
>         double bidAskSpread = 0.0001; // prevalent spread between best
> bid and best ask
>         Commission commission =
> CommissionFactory.getBundledNorthAmericaFutureCommission();
>         setStrategy(contract, tradingSchedule, multiplier, commission,
> bidAskSpread);
>     }
>
> I copied Defender2 and made a DefenderEUR class based on StrategyEUR
>
> When running, I run Defender2 and DefenderEUR.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Any comments and support would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards
>   Klaus

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