I remember I had this behavior when I was using the the IB API. Let me check and circle back if i remember. It has been an year since I moved to the Tradier API.
I will let other make a choice. For me., I think AWS works well. I have an AWS instance that I use to run my simple app i developed for myself on the Tradier API. . The advantage I get is that If i loose my home connectivety or I am not at home and the app still runs. I can access it from...
Two firms that provide that are IB and Tradier. I use Tradier because its free. I have my brokerage account with them. The gap is that they do not support any Futures and Forex data.
You should contact https://www.global-autotrading.com/ . I have an account at tradier and am gettin ready to use them. Hope it helps. Your requirements may be different so will let you make the call
My IB Quotes were broken for aproximately 2 hours yesterday. I do not think its an ISP issue as I was able to use other things. I tried updating my Java, You are right it did not do a thing. It looked ok later. This is pathetic. This for me now happend way to often now.
ET's,
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