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Hey guys just a couple of questions: - What time does the S&P500 close in the mornings (Australian mornings) ? - What time does the Aussie spi200 close in the (aussie) mornings? - for funding an IB account, does one require US$10k or AUD$10k ? Many thanks Gerry

Thanks alot SideShowBob, very helpful stuff. I am actually subscribed to TradeStation, just need to download and install it ! Then will get some historical tick data from there. Thanks again for the help!

Hey thanks, that's really good to know. OK so live, IB tick data can be stored at a max rate of 10ticks/sec (not too bad, if you're doing only one security). I guess purchasing historical tick data would be a better bet for historical backtesting. If OpenTick's quality's not too bad, I'm...

For OpenTick, Can I ask what you mean with 'not the highest' quality? In what way is it bad? I'd be more than happy to purchase reliable historical tick data. Have you done so, and if yes, where from? cheers Gerry

thanks much jeb999, Any suggestions for a reliable historical tick data supplier? What I'm also wondering is whether I can use the IB API to log live prices and store these for future backtesting purposes. Presumably live data coming from IB is true tick data? (else trading wouldn't be...

Hey guys, I am trying to set up a backtesting framework and need some reliable, historical tick-data for various instruments including European (french, german and Eurex) futures, US futures, Australian futures, commodities and currencies. For trading, we will be using IB, so our options...

...this you guys are talking about and where to get it?