README
copyright (c) 2005--2006 Trading-shim.com, LLC Columbus, OH
GPL version 2 or later, see COPYING for details
The Trading Shim is a command-line and dbms controlled interface to Interactive Brokers' tws socket api. It provides us with a data-intensive vehicle for research into minimal mode mixed-paradigm (m^3) programming using C++.
I hope the resulting software is of value to you, whether you are interested in the application domain, or the software engineering techniques I have used to control program complexity. Those techniques extend the implementation work done as part of my doctoral dissertation, "Optimizing Threads of Computation in Constraint Logic Programs,", in particular by demonstrating a non-trivial instance of the single-tree pattern, whereby all singleton types are parameterized and then stratified by their binding pattern.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1041551800
The top level directories here are:
src: C++ application domain source and header files
lib: C++ container and other component source and header files
sql: scripts and other data used to set up the trading-shim database
bin: short, simple auxiliary scripts
doc: preliminary documentation, primarily object inclusion hierarchies for now
pdf: compiled documentation files in pdf form
dep: ignore this, it's for the Makefile's benefit, not of interest to humans
The web site is at:
There are two lists, ts-announce and ts-general, and you may subscribe to them at:
http://www.trading-shim.org/mailman/listinfo
A bugtracker is freely available at:
http://www.trading-shim.org/bugs/
We strongly encourage its use. While mailing list reports are useful, a formal bug report which provides a reproducing case of the bug is even better. The reporter, and optionally other people who add themselves to the 'cc' list on the bug, will get email notification as debugging progresses and the bug is resolved.
In any case, please understand that while bug reports are a valued input to our road-map planning, mailing list postings are not formally tracked -- that is what the bugtracker is for, after all -- and if you do not report bugs through the bugtracker, they may well be overlooked.
See the INSTALL for notes on how to install and run the trading shim.