I can understand you feel misled. It's like politicians, they won't lie per se but they won't tell you the truth either.

NT says they support Interactive Brokers (I guess you thought of NT as an alternative to TWS) but in practice it's not doable and useless.

May be you can get a refund if you explain? Or indeed go with NT and Kinetics which is expensive and I think also requires a NT live trading account.

So it seems, one way or another, you will need to open an account with NT Brokerage and subscribe to Kinetics if you want stock data or continuum for futures. You don't need to use your NT account but there is an inactivity fee of $25 a month.

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