do you day trade asia... if so aren't your comissions incredible? I looked on the IB rates and they are .08% of trade value
that's good. I have genesis it is compatible with my ATS and I'm able to use their datafeed... I'll probably stick with it
Spec, Are you happy with Activ? My list of possible feed providers includes Activ, Essex Radez, Reuters, Comstock, and Infodyne. Activ may be at the top of my list as they seem to be pushing the envelope, e.g. by designing specialized silicon for their options feeds (not something I probably would use at the moment, but got to give them credit for pushing the field forward, right? Anyone care to comment on the above vendors? There seems to be scant information comparing them on the Web. I guess not a huge number of people are actually in the market for this! Are there other Web sites where people who use these feeds hang out, or is it just not discussed very much at all? Believe it or not, I'd actually LIKE to get compressed data. Options take so much bandwidth these days. And having to get a large amount of Radianz bandwidth would get super expensive, wouldn't it? I'd like direct Linux/Unix access to the data, too.
The feed is superb, and C++ API is very solid. API coverage includes various UNIX flavors, which is hard to find even among professional data vendors.
Checkout STAC http://www.stacresearch.com If your seriously looking for solid benchmarks for various datafeed providers you might want to consider STAC a bunch of smart guys out of Reuters who recently started this company to do performance measurement testing specific combinations of application, middleware, operating system, processor, and network technologies against particular benchmarks - especially market data. Best of luck.
You can afford to colo at NYSE and are modeling data in Terabytes?? Why are you not running your own ticker plant???