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Re: [amibroker] IB Plugin Opinions



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No, it's 1,5,10,15,20,25 or 30 days.  it's best to do the longer 
backfill during off-peak market hours, otherwise IB will "throttle" you 
down, and numerous retries still never finish, for me.
hth, ron


Terry wrote:
> Isn't IB backfill fairly limited, like 5 days?
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> Terry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Ara Kaloustian
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 08:32
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] IB Plugin Opinions
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> I can give you partial answers.
> 
> If you use tick data for day trading, IB is not a good source. You might
> cancel TS and use eSignal with AB.
> 
> If you use 1 min data ..you'll be OK with IB data.
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ken Fox" <kj_fox@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 7:53 AM
> Subject: [amibroker] IB Plugin Opinions
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>> Can I get some opinions on using the IB data plugin (vs Esignal)?  I
>> currently have Tradestation for my trading and then subscribed to
>> Esignal as my data feed to AB when I started a few months ago.
>> However, the combined cost of the two is almost $200/month so I am
>> thinking of switching to IB to replace both packages.  I would
>> appreciate anyone's thoughts on this idea (good, bad, pros, cons,
> etc.).
>> Thanks in advance,
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>> Ken
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