Hi, > Since I live in Germany my ping are not so good as in the US. So I want to > use the Amazon AWS infrastructure. What kind of instances at which cost are > you using? What is the minimum configuration required to run JBT with IB > Gateway? What storage settings for the recorded files do you use? Your > experiences with 24 hours/5 days seem to be good. > > I have the same problem (also Germany), so I decided some time back (about 1.5 years) to go to AWS. I use a micro-instance with IB Gateway. I also solves my problem that I do neither have internet connection nor constantly available computer for doing the data gathering.. I used the three year option, so this is about 10USD a month (down-payment + continuous payment). (I use the north-east zone)
> How do you handle the IB passcode card? Do you once enter it and IB > Gateway runs all the time? Or do you need to use IBcontroller? Any > recommendations on this? > > My take differs probably from others here. I do not have time for restarting every day and such. Moreover, I am interested also in data gathering also during the time European stocks are traded - also for non-european instruments. So, what I do is simply: I start it on the weekend and let it run until the next weekend. On the weekend I do all updates (note that with a platform like Ubuntu you will also have like weekly updates, often security relevant ones). If there is no need to restart the VM, I simply restart JBT and leave IB Gateway running, otherwise, I restart the whole system, restart IBG and enter the pass code. (If I would not do it only on a weekly basis, I would probably be bothered by the need of reentering everything on a daily basis and would have opted out. This way, however, if I am traveling, I need to keep the card with me. - sometimes I also leave it on running also for two weeks and then manually split datafiles into weekly increments later. @Eugene: your datafiles look nearly perfect regarding start time and end > time! how do you accomplish this to make your recorded data files so > smooth? Any cool scripts? > > See above. Mine are certainly not perfect, as I aim at capturing as much of the week as possible. - What I use instead: * I have a script which zips all non-zipped files (This is the way I keep all data. It reduces the footprint to about 15%) * I modified JBT. If it does not find a textfile (e.g., for backtest or optimizing) it looks for the corresponding zip - and if you give it a zip-file directly - it just silently takes the zip-file and uses this instead of the usual text-file. > Thanks a lot in advance for your help! > > I am willing to document your feedback and the process of my configuration > into the JBT wiki or a separate document. > > Hope it helps. If you need / want further information, let me know.. Cheers Klaus > > Greetings > > > new_trader > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JBookTrader" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
