Tickdata, where to buy

Discussion in 'Automated Trading' started by Topsurfi, Oct 24, 2012.

  1. Are you connected directly to the exchange's feed? If not, the answer to your question is: "In many many ways".
     
    #11     Oct 26, 2012
  2. andread

    andread

    I am eager to know some of them.

    I looked at the T&S format on the CME site. The record is specified here:

    http://www.cmegroup.com/market-data/datamine-historical-data/files/TxSLayoutguideCSV.pdf

    So it's basically a sequence of CSV values. You want to tell me that some people make mistakes while passing it on to their customers? Or saving it somewhere? Making a lot of money in the process?
    I might have found a new job for me.

    The only thing that I can imagine is the hardware failure, which should be so rare to be easily considered statistically irrelevant.
     
    #12     Oct 27, 2012