Trade-Ideas alert lags/alerts not appearing, alternatives?

You could programm something with TC2000s Easyscan, but you get only a refresh rate of 1 minute. In the worst case the train has left the station since one minute ;-)
For me it is sufficent

 

Has anyone tried this with say IQFeed and their API? Wondering about potential lag time?

 

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focus on a few, like SPY...…………………………………………………………………..

 

I used trade ideas few months back and i dont trust their alerts in alert windows. i didnt get good alerts when some stocks should have appeared in the scanner for obvious reasons, filters etc. I really have doubts on this over priced scanner. You dont need a Premium subscription for backtesting as the short cut is to choose History and do backtest but you cant see any equity curve etc for analysis.