I am trying to find a real time data provider that can do accurate charts and/or data tables on options on futures.

I was at DTN ProphetX. A lot of incorrect data.

I am now at eSignal. Was OK, then at the start of this month they made changes to their software and the data is incorrect and they haven't been able to fix it yet.

I know not many here trade options on futures, but can you check if your data provider has charts on options on futures?

For example ES Dec 800 puts.

What problems do you have with options data for futures?

For eSignal, their bids and asks are wrong. If a bid or ask trades, and there isn't a bid or ask under the traded bid or ask, then eSignal leaves the traded bid or ask on the screen. It is a phantom bid or ask.

For their daily ES option charts they use the last trade of the session instead of the settlement price. They don't have Time & Sales on options. Their Delta is wrong.

DTN PhophetX was just as bad.

CQG is a pain in the butt to work with. They are expensive.

well, I am happy so far with Nanex, but i pay aruond 770 USD per month for the full data feed (500 to Nanex, the rest to the exchagne). Plus dealing with the data is a lot - I get between 1.5 and 3 gigabyte of tape (highly compressed) per day, hundreds of millions of updates. But they also handle corrections (cancels etc.) which are published as they are propagated and they also provide for every trade the excahgne serial, so you can correalte the tick and your own order (which in a lower level API also has access to the excahgne trade sequence number for the fills).

so do you folow this using Ninja at the moment, while developing your own platform?
I did not think that NT would be capable of being so precise and work would in a high traffic environment? i guess that is a function of nanex data feed??
Does this fee cover all exchanges?
Thank for your time.

Yes, ninja - while working my ass off Mostly for money (I o IT consulting and... well, was very busy last year).

The fee is compelte CME and includes exchange - goes up to 810 or so next yar with raised exchange fees, Nanex itself tgets 500 USD.

NT is siply not able to handle options sensibly - they are stream oriented and handle single instruments. I doubt they can run more than 50 or 100 instruments. For options you need a data feed that can handle tens of thousands of instruments, and a software than can also deal with the relationsships between them (here is ESxx, get me all march options, then all april options, then deltas). NT just "does not do options".

THAT said - dealing with the data throughput is a pain. I was working this weekend on my NxCore parser (translating it into my own object streams) and got it about 3 times faster The alst thing I now have to do is handle bid/ask updates properly - NxCore has a "snapshot" approach, i need to transalte it to delta updates.

Then next week I am back to writing my storage infrastr5ucture - server is finally in place and stable Just as note - I got some stats and sometimes NxCore pushes nearly 2 million updates through the system. That is - per minute Dealing with this amount of information requires a little more than a little "ok, here is a hard disc" approach.