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TOS continues to exhibit opportunities for improvement. Unable to connect (Stuck with "Installing updates..." on one computer, and "We have failed to deliver your order(s): ..." on another.

Am hoping they resolve their issues soon.

Getting no updates from TOS for some options, including SPX, SPY...

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@ SG: What is GTool? : A tool I wrote to aid in the selecting RTT trade entries. Old presentation: "" <-- The name G-Tool came later. The reports from the GTool come out twice daily and are available to subscribers of the service.

Jim: Have not determined what I will do yet! It could be a feature add to some existing ThinkScripts for extracting data for external processing. I hope to be able to devote some time in the future to see if this can be of value for me. If I get time to look into this more, I'll try to...

While not knocking sockets... (haven't considered them for a few years) I had a unique need in that I wanted realtime and historic data but wanted a common interface. For me, using SQL database(s) was a clean defined, yet extremely flexible interface. (I use MariaDB. There are a number of...

On July31st, an issue with real time data collection resulted in failure to produce GTOOL reports for the day. The RiskReversal reports, if you observe the date/time stamp in the reports, is for the prior day (Thursday). I did not notice this till today, and apologize for this issue, and hope...

Jim: Thanks for the post! I looked at this strategy csv file mechanism in the past but discarded as being very inflexible with it's fixed fields. However, notice what he does with the "name" parameter! Sweet! That allows you to place pretty much any info you want in the file (we can embed...

A small background first: I experimented and used a number of data sources. LiveVol subscription, RTD (TOS-Excel), and TDA-API. of these RTD and TDA-API are real-time. The RTD has "wart-like" variation in that it can be used with OnDemand for some historic data collectiion. Rather than have...

Some details that may allow one to get better feel for some decision making on which direction (coding/DataSource, etc) they may consider next. Data source: Some details for choosing RTD via TOS/Excel. 1) RTD is limited by quantiy of RTD links. The limitation is from your PC (memory and...

Speaking with their Derivatives specialist today and their StreetSmartEdge expert yesterday, both informed me their conditional orders only work for single leg option orders. Was inquiring if they were able to handle my position exit OCO orders which contain conditional orders for both good and...

Steve: I appreciate your "brain dump"! We have similar thoughts on process. IMHO: The most difficult task (for me) has been determining precisely what I want! Implementing is the easy part. Regarding Py in Excel instead of VB.... Not a recommendation, but observe this product...

Schwab is unable to place conditional multi-leg option orders? Does anyone here use Schwab for option trading beyond single leg trades? Have I been spoiled by TOS? Just off the phone with their StreetSmart Edge guy and their Derivitives specialist, and amazed with lack of capability. I have...

Schwab claims they do not charge exchange fees on SPX.

@Steve: If you have access to the TDA-API, there is a more reliable (simpler for no-touch) process than using RTD you may want to consider. The only linkage between TOS and excel is RTD. There is much you can do with this. If you code, you can write code to dynamically build and administer...

FYI: API functioning today...

Today, the TDA-API seems to have a new issue resulting in timeout when trying to connect to them. Curious if other us the API enough to observe the change in behavior? I submitted issue request to them, but not holding my breath for response (yet am hopeful/wishing)! The connections were...

Closest thing I found was placing a manually constructed string representing the multileg order into the Level II Trade grid in place of symbol. EG: ".QQQ200731P272-2*.QQQ200731P266+.QQQ200731P260" For a 6-wide fly on QQQ. However, the data presented seems a bit unreliable, as I can observe...

Thanks Andrew! Did not know that (or forgot). Found it in the "Scan->Spread Book" after refining the selection to permit it to display. It seems a better choice for this info would be when one is working an order, rather than hidden away like that. -- However, this is limited to the...