I recommend playing with JBT in it's intended function before you start modifying it. Design some strategies for ES, backtest them, optimize them, and forward test them for a while to get comfortable with how the program functions. Make sure you fully understand how the "book" aspect works. This will help you immensely when you decide whether to, and how to, modify the code base. Most people come in here thinking that JBT can trade anything in exactly the way they want it to, but JBT is actually tailored to a very specific type of trading, and you will need to do a lot of work to make it do something else.
Good luck! Tell us how it goes. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the tip as where to start. I was looking at hooking into > this api > > http://www.lmaxtrader.co.uk/api-trading/resources-releases > > This site is apparently going to act like BetFair but for trading > where you can place your offer within the spread and the users decide > whether they accept it so you kinda make your own Market. Sounds > interesting but I wanted to automate the whole thing. > > Thanks again and any other tips besides altering the trader package > classes would be most welcome. > > David > > On Apr 28, 12:43 am, nonlinear <[email protected]> wrote: > > It was a fairly long and difficult task to make sure that JBT works > > correctly with IB in trading mode. I don't know how accomodating your > other > > API is in terms of its transparency. What you'd need to do is to > re-define > > and re-implement the methods and interfaces in the > > com.jbooktrader.platform.trader package. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "JBookTrader" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JBookTrader" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader?hl=en.
