Amibroker and I.B.

Hi,

To those that autotrade intraday systems with AmiBroker through I.B.:

*Where did you get your historical data from for backtesting (Im specifically after equities)?
*How far back does the I.B. backfill go for 1-min data?
Did you need to use this: http://ibcollector.com/Default.aspx

Thanks.

Nizar.

 

http://www.tickdata.com/index.shtml

Ron

 

IQFeed basic service ($60/month) provides 1 minute historical backfills going back a year or more. Works very smoothly with Amibroker. http://www.iqfeed.net/Amibroker/index.cfm?displayaction=data&section=services

 

http://www.amibroker.com/ib.html says it gives you 30 days of 1-min backfills (slowly) or 180 days (excruciatingly slowly). I've used IB for 5 day bacfills in Amibroker before and that was usable with 50-100 symbols. If you will be backfilling a lot of symbols, or backfilling longer periods using IB, it may take some time.

 

kind to share how to syn IB feeding into AMI brokers for real time ? anyone heard of EXPERT charting software ?

thks