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Funny you mention this, because this is exactly the reason that I'm
looking for a data provider. The historical data provide by TWS is of
a poor quality and not useful for strategy testing and continuous
contracts data.
I bought a tool called IBcollector to find out a lot of data was missing :-(
Cheers,
Simon
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Leslie Walko <lesliewalko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Chas,
> Try it before you 'buy'. :-)
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> I deposited my money and did not find up-times or customer service acceptable. My requirement is to be able to pull data automatically through an API and feed my own copy of TS2K for fully automated trad order generation and verification.
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> For placing trade manually, TWS is fine but overall infrastructure is not up to auto-trading with auto-generated continuous contract based trading.
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> Leslie
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> --- On Thu, 1/8/09, ChasW <cwwaring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> From: ChasW <cwwaring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: intraday data provider voor commodities
>> To: lesliewalko@xxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 6:05 PM
>> could deposit $5000 in am IB acct and get it for free?
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leslie Walko"
>> <lesliewalko@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "omega list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>;
>> <simon.lont@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:10 PM
>> Subject: re: intraday data provider voor commodities
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>> > Hello Simon
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>> > Regarding intra-day data provider:
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>> >> Subject: intraday data provider voor commodities
>> >> Hi @,
>> >> I'm looking for a new intraday data provider
>> for commodity futures (SI, >GC,
>> >> DX etc) with continuous contract facilities.
>> >> Does anybody know a reasonable priced data
>> provider?
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>> > I am using DTN IQfeed. The price is VERY good, cost a
>> lot less then eSignal or CQG. Quality seems excellent.
>> Software support has far exceeded my expectations.
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>> > DTN provides real time data down to about 1 minute bar
>> resolution and (depending on contract) they have all
>> historical data for each contract from the day that the
>> market came into existence.
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>> > Some continuous contacts are available.
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>> > Regards, Leslie
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>> Date: 1/8/2009 8:13 AM
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