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The gray box system I built uses yhoo data and runs under linux/cygwin/etc. To facilitate the data grabs, I use libcurl under C. Very simple, fast and very portable to any gcc compiler. If you ever need intraday equity data, TDAmeritrade has a fairly well defined protocol interface that...

Thanks for the clarification. :cool: I couldn't find any costs or symbol limits published on the site. If you can give some approximate numbers on costs for the QuantFEED data/service, I'm sure it would be helpful to others as part of this thread. lugz

I wanted to post an update in case anyone was following this thread. Sorry, but some of the costs include exchange fees for my needs and some don't... and other costs will vary, so take the numbers as a rough approximation. Opentick - would love for these guys to be real, but can't wait for...

Thanks for the heads up on TAL ... quick glance is pretty promising for $300/mo, which is more than I wanted to spend but a lot less than many of the other feeds. Java is just a symptom of the underlying disease. :cool: The sad state of software engineering in 2008 is another thread...

Thanks for the feedback on IB. Do you know if their app is multithreaded and takes advantage of multi-core systems? Seems like a few modern Java apps are almost acceptable performance-wise, but the legacy of inefficiency is still there, so I default to skeptical. I went back and found their...

Hello ETers, After searching and lurking for a while, I haven't come up with a good answer... hopefully someone here can share some wisdom. I'm a longtime software "Elitist D*ck" (tm) :D but only a few years into the world of trading. I've developed my own daily swing trade...