Firstly, I found your post very misleading. Hyperfeed was a little sarcasim on my part. I inquired about Hyperfeed a few months back and was surprised to hear the cost (I think it was something like $8,000 a month). There is obviously no comparison. One company specializes in data and charges a high rate while the other specializes in order execution and charges you basically the Exchange fees for their data. Secondly, I would disagree strongly that IB's data is poor relative to retail data providers. I have used TAL, PC Quote, QFeed, Reuters, DTNIQ, ESignal, S&P Comstock and Track Data. Out of those providers, only one had data that was even comparable to IB's data. That is, IB, a broker, has better data than most of the retail data providers!! Yes, at times IB's data is a little slow but the problems are much worse at many data providers. For a broker that specializes in fast executions, their data is outstanding. Sorry, you must have me confused with someone else. I have no interest in off shore trading. Thanks though.
Once you get used to the software it is pretty decent . The trade off is the commission savings so I can deal with it.
re: the price feed. With the new switches things are much better. At the same time, the algorithm/programs that send the prices out is being re-written to speed things up during fast markets. That code if not implemented yet, should be very soon.
Have the guys at QuoteTracker made any statements about how long it might be before they can support trading with IB? I have always thought IB wasn't giving QT the time of day... And that there was numerous problems with an IB/QT hookup... :eek:
jerry medved has made a posting on the Ibweb discussion. shoot him an e-mail. he's pretty good at replying.