Hi! I want to write a little program in Java that monitors the NYSE TICK. When the TICK gets to +400, then I’d sell 100 shares of SPY. If the TICK drops down to -400, then I’d buy 100 shares of SPY.
1) I want to deploy this little program to the IB trading platform. Please tell me how the system work together (like how my program would monitor the TICK values. I assume IB provides some sort of a unique variable name and TCP port for TICK values, so one’s Java program would poll the variable…