Recent content by JamesWarren

Is it true that for IBKR even when my commission is $500/month and with cross-connect, I will never able to get better at Tick Data because of 250ms tick data snapshot?

I'm experiencing around 300ms+. I time with the PC clock against the Tick Data timestamp. I do sync time with time server. Yes, the Tick Data time resolution is to the second but you could tell. I have Comcast 1Gbps internet but ping to ndc1.ibllc.com (America East) took around 80ms. The...

I'm currently working on a project for quant trading using IB. Today, I'm located at West Coast. My program should trade approx 50-100 trades a day (23 hour) for a single futures symbol. No, I'm not HFT. My questions are: [1] Where do I Colo or get a dedicated server for the best latency...

I found this: https://marketchameleon.com/Reports/StockOrderImbalanceReport it says 15 minutes delayed so useless. I wonder if you are a paid subscriber, you would get realtime.