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Why not sticking to your original plan?

@KCOJ: Trade 150 Future Markets!!! RESPECT.

What's the selling price? You don't make any money until you close the position. But I guess you meant Unreal P/L following the 1% increase. Why do you care about the 2% drop if you go long after it? The stock might have dropped 50% before you decide to buy it. So what's the point? As JTrades...

@apdxyk, Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm on the impression that Photon Trader needs an account with FuturePath Trading. I'm using IB an my executing broker and also their API for order management/execution and I don't want to change that. I'm looking to only replace IQFeed as a market data...

@Gambit: Thanks for the suggestions, but are Rithmic and TT more Trade Executing Platform rather than pure Market Data Feed? @debitspread: Still out in left field

I agree with you, it's not rocket science but your assumptions are all false. You assume that I'm a discretionary trader, who don't have a clue of what he's doing, with limited capital, trying to make some money in buying and selling stocks on major economic announcement. I'm an algo trader...

Thanks for the suggestion debitspread but you seem to think that I'm experiencing delays in the feed which is not the case. I simply cannot subscribe to the real time feed when the volatility is high. Like again 5 min ago for 75 symbols, and again just now for 1 symbol. Have you heard of...

It's even worst than that. I got the errror 'Symbol not found' when trying to subscribe to one of the S&P 500 symbols. When it's happening my algo cannot be triggered. Sometimes it last several minutes before I can subscribe and it's always happening during high volatility. And during high vol...

Guess what? FOMC announcement, high volatility, iq feed not working, when it matters most. I don't care if they have problem at 6 am, but when things get tough, you need it working.

Volatility yesterday just before 16h EST was super high. But 1 and 1.5 points slippage is huge.

Well, the problem still exists, 3 weeks after I reported it. I don't call that 'willing to fix it'.

I agree. With that type of high volume/volatility, it's normal to see delays in data transmission. The problem with IQFeed is not being able to subscribe to real-time data. They simply have a bug on their side and they are not willing to fix it. Sometimes it takes several minutes before being...

I used to be satisfied with them also (futures and stocks), but not anymore. I don't know what happened with them over the years. Yes, I'm looking into CQG right now, trying to understand their pricing. But price is one thing and reliability is another thing and this is more difficult to...

So, you're buying and selling at the same time and the market is 3.20-2.50, which is a crossed market, on a low volume option.... really. Or maybe you think that you can buy on the bid and sell on the offer?

Since August 24, IQFeed is unreliable giving me 'Symbol not found' errors on many stocks part of the S&P500. It's happening in fast market, the worst time. I've been in contact with their tech support almost each day but nothing was done to fix this problem. So now I have enough. I'm looking to...

Don't go with IQFeed. They are shit when the market is volatile. Not slow, they just don't work, returning 'Symbol not found' errors all over the place. You don't want this to happen especially in fast market. Not reliable at all.

CFD! That explains everything... Case closed then.

I agree with globalarbtrader, several technologies makes it more complicated. I'm guessing that you want to automate the following parts: - Entry signal trigger - Exit signal trigger - Money and risk management - Order management - House keeping stuff (data validation and clean-up, data backup...

Can you be more specific? What do you mean by price? Do you have example(s) on the difference magnitude?