This brings us to a fundamental fork in the road for every aspiring quant: to use a feature-rich, off-the-shelf trading platform like MotiveWave or Quantower, or to build a bespoke trading application from the ground up using a direct, high-performance Application Programming Interface (API) like those offered by Rithmic

didn't mince words, calling the IBKR Algo Trading API a "piece of garbage" and questioning why IBKR continues to offer such a subpar product