Breakout, as i understand there's no back-fill on the overnite globex data? Any work-arounds on this other than leaving computers on 24hrs/day?
Not sure...I do know that this guy is getting ready to provide back-fill data that is compatible with Ensign for IB. You might email him and ask about overnite. SCMagic
About the tick update from IB I remember that they used to update there data every 0.7 seconds. They were speeding things up and said that they will update there data now every 0.5 seconds. I am not sure if the data vendors like eSignal are faster. a good person to ask would be M. Brown. I upload a 200 tick chart with QCharts data. You might want to compare it to your IB data chart?
I remember seeing this thread where the speed of data from IB was compared to some others: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=350500&highlight=esignal#post350500
I've just started a discussion group for Ensign Software at this address. Ensign Software has a lot of very good information at it's own website but I thought it might be useful to have an open forum where everyone could post. It's at this website here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ensignsoftware/