In my JForex strategy, I need access to my account free margin. So I have two questions.
1. How do I get access to the IAccount object in the first place? I can't see a way to get this from the IContext object. Yes I can get the IAccount object from the IStrategy onAccount() method but this is only called after the account info changes. I need the IAccount object at the very start. How do i get it?
2. Is there any method in IAccount that returns the account free margin, ie the equivalent of the MT4 AccountFreeMargin()?

Thanks

Hi
IAccount method for the first time is called immediately after the onStart. It's not possible to cal this method sooner.
Use method IAccount.getCreditLine().

Am I correct in assuming you've used Interactive Brokers before? Their API does this: you only get account updates if the account balance changes, and even then not in a timely manner.

When I started using Dukas' API, that was one of the first things I looked at and I soon found you get a new call to onAccount() about every 5 seconds, and thus far I've always received one before I even receive my first bar or tick. However, all of my testing has been in the backtester, so if you aren't seeing the same behavior there may be a disparity in behavior between the two.

-Brian