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Bah lucky you. My brother is completing a history PhD so I'm familiar with the grind. Realistically given rampant ageism I'm probably a tad too old to go back and earn a doctorate in anything and expect it to generate decent ROI. Yeah the surcharge is peanuts; posted it because it's not disclosed with other fees on their site (mentioned in their API quickstart guide).
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
A quick in and out on QQQ this morning (w/ data lagging up to 50secs, nothing as tingly as flying blind ) and dev fee is covered, lulz. Should be a IQFeed developer by end of day.
Initially intend to cobble together a small C++ app to alert me to certain conditions and or forward notices to a mobile device. Eventually will rewrite an old C++/OpenGL charting system I wrote ages ago in first foray into algorithmic trading (qfeed and opengl 1.1, tells you how long ago... gulp). Plan to dig it up this week and I'll post a screenshot.
Right now however, just want to avoid stuff like the following, which severely interferes with my wetware processing status--
Date/Time Message Severity Type Time
8/9/2011 13:36:24 Connected to perm server Normal Internal 13:36:24
8/9/2011 13:36:24 Connected to quote server (prc119) Normal Internal 13:36:24
8/9/2011 13:36:24 Connected to order server Normal Internal 13:36:24
8/9/2011 13:40:49 Some users may experience quote outage, will advise Critical User 13:40:49
8/9/2011 13:47:22 Quotes restored Critical User 13:47:22
8/9/2011 14:22:25 Disconnected from quote server (prc119) Normal Internal 14:22:25
8/9/2011 14:22:36 Connected to quote server (prc119) Normal Internal 14:22:36
8/9/2011 14:23:45 Some users may experience quote outage, will advise Critical User 14:23:45
8/9/2011 14:46:06 Disconnected from quote server (prc119) Normal Internal 14:46:06
8/9/2011 14:46:18 Connected to quote server (prc119) Normal Internal 14:46:18
I've trialed Kinetick and NinjaTrader. The Kinetick data stream is good and the C#.NET programming language is probably future safe . However, NT doesn't get along with my computers and there are inconveniences like having to set my computer clock to the market time??
Thanks for the review..very helpful for newbies like me.
I heard some data feeds are slower/get stuck compared to others
(saw some you tube videos where they compared how some data feeds are slower or get stuck) Interactivebrokers vs Rithmic Data feed using www.optimusfutures.com broker - YouTube
I couldnt find the other video in which someone compared how the data feed was slower in one compared to other (cant find it).
when most people say IQ feed is excellent does it mean IQ feed is the fastest and most accurate without delays ?
sorry if it s a dumb question
IQFeed is well regarded mainly for:
a) huge amount of backfill, 120+ days of bid/ask tick level and years of minute
b) very fast
c) rock solid reliable, you never see people saying "IQFeed is down right now" on the forums
d) very broad selection of equities, futures, currencies, index, and breadth symbols
e) compatible with most any major platform like multicharts, ninjatrader, sierra, investor/rt, others
f) can use a single instance IQFeed concurrently within multiple platforms on your PC
The only real downside is cost. It isn't free. Rithmic/Zen Fire is free from your broker. You can lower the cost of IQFeed by having a funded account at most brokers and get the CME fee waiver program, it will save quite a bit monthly.
It all depends what your own personal needs are. If you need equities, then IQFeed is a no brainer. If you need breadth, no brainer. If you need large historical tick backfill, no brainer. But if you don't need any of that, then maybe Rithmic and others are good enough and will save you money to be sure, depending on what you plan to do with them.
NxCore is also FULL EXCHANGE FEEDS and GUARANTEED DATA - if you are off 2-3 days, they download it all. 14 days back. No gap caused by your network problems.
And again, full feed. I get CME group from them, about 200.000 symbols over all exchanges. Ninja can not handle that, but if you have other software to interface with... it can. it is quite good sometimes to have a full history that is correct.
I.e.: BID and ASK and ORDER BOOK - not just trades in backfill. For backtesting this is great - you can really find out where a trade would have executed, not just guess based on last / next trade.
I.e.: All items in order. Ninja destroys order on their data store (they stor esecond timestamps and bid/ask and trades in separate streams - no way to regenerate this).
) and dev fee is 
. However, NT doesn't get along with my computers and there are inconveniences like having to set my computer clock to the market time??
