MetaServer RT 3.2 for InteractiveBrokers TWS and TS2ki

[Joe S <jes333@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Bob,

Thanks for your well thought out post.  I'm only hoping to get data for 
a couple symbols at a time.  How long does it take to download 24 hours 
of history?

Thanks,

Joe

Bob R wrote:

> The MetaServer products have been great, but IB is having growing 
> pains with their historical data feature.  Perhaps they don't have 
> enough data servers for history, or enough bw capacity to handle all 
> the users requesting history.  Try getting history on a weekend from 
> them.  Try getting it when they are shut down for maintenance.  Try 
> getting it during a very busy period.  They need to do something about 
> speeding up the history service as downloads may take a long time and 
> may be useless when you need it most.  Initially they had/have the 
> last 24 hr only, but do say if there are enough requests they will 
> expand it to one week of data.....talk about longer retrieval delays.  
> One question is do they have fill data for the time their brokerage is 
> shutdown for maintenance?  The shutdown at midnight est precludes ever 
> running a 24 hr ATS on anything that might be active that time of 
> night.  One of their techs says they are working on eliminating the 
> nightly shutdown, hurray.  This next statement is purely suspicion.  
> It is possible for users who roll their own interfaces that uses the 
> TWS API to continually subscribe and unsubscribe to the 100 symbol 
> limits so they can scan hundreds or thousands of issues throughout the 
> day, real or potential overload.  The suspicion is they have a 
> bottleneck at their end of the internet in servicing all clients and I 
> wonder if it is possible for some devious indivuals to hang IB's 
> dataservice while it is in its infancy of growth.
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Joe S <mailto:jes333@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     *To:* Omega-List@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Omega-List@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     *Sent:* Friday, August 26, 2005 12:20 PM
>     *Subject:* MetaServer RT 3.2 for InteractiveBrokers TWS and TS2ki
>
>       I know it's new, but has anyone tried MetaServer RT 3.2 for
>     InteractiveBrokers TWS and TS2ki?  With it's historical data download
>     option, it might be the zero cost real-time data solution many of us
>     have been looking for.  The previous versions worked well, except
>     that
>     the chart had to be built from scratch, one bar at a time.  Hopefully
>     this version will solve that issue.  Any feedback would be
>     appreciated.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Joe