I have my VPS at Equinix LD4 datacenter (UK) and I was planning to get some fast feed over there, so I though LMAX would be great. I only need the feed. Unfortunately it is not cheap. LMAX support told me that as a retail trader they require 10k minimum on a trading account, some trading activity, and 300 USD/month just for the .NET API. If I do not want a trading account than it would cost me 10K/month just for the top of book feed. A meeting is also required and they want to test if my app works perfectly. So if I understood them correctly they are expecting a fully functioning app even if I only want a top of book feed subscription. So basically I just want to log in, subscribe to the feed, and that is all, no further requests will be sent.
Do you guys know any trading vendors selling LMAX feed only?
Or maybe some cheap introducing brokers for LMAX with a c# API?