Any third party charting software works with TWS?

Using Ninja Trader to fetch historic minute-bar market data from TWS takes too long time! Are there any other third party charting software that wouldn’t take longer than a minute to fetch historic minute-bar market data from TWS?

 

I’d assume most be the same. Their plugin is most likely handling the pacing requirements of TWS history requests. IB doesn’t label themselves data vendors.

 

The problem is with IB, not TWS or Ninja Trader. IB isn’t data provider so you may want to consider any actual data provider supported by Ninja Trader.

 

Thanks for the info. It looks like I need find out what chart software and data provider IB customers use.

 

Another popular option is that most software out there allows to use different data feeds and brokerages. So you could use ninja and kinetic or IQFeed but orders go to IB. Most the softwares out there now work this way.

 

kinetic cost $60.month -- too much! Don't know how much IQFeed costs.

 

Pulling data from TWS can be slow at times, depending on how much data you're trying to pull.

We have a lot of IB customers using MotiveWave as their front end platform. As @Metamega mentioned, you can use a data feed like IQFeed, CQG, etc. to augment the IB data.