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I just heard from my contact at IB. The requirement to subscribe to professional market data will be eliminated when the upcoming Universal Account (one account for all trading instruments: stocks, options, futures) is made available. This is scheduled to be around mid-June.

ktm Yep. I'm serious. Of course, I am only passing along what was told to me. I don't know whether or not IB will make an announcement when the new pro policy is implemented, but I plan to keep on top of it. I just received their email about the CBOT data fees, so I hope they will email...

stevet I don't know. I've only traded stocks through them.

stevet If our main datafeed goes down, our trading is severely hindered. Fortunately, the datafeed we use is very reliable and rarely goes down for long. We also maintain several brokerage accounts and can get basic data through many of them as backups. Additionally, for active NASDAQ...

I just got an email from the person I was corresponding with at IB. They are going to separate market data from trading, but it may take a few weeks to program. Once that is done, professional accounts will no longer be required to subscribe to ANY data. There will be a charge of $3/month for...

Yes, ktm, I agree. THE issue is not the data subscriptions and the professional designation issues, it is the REQUIREMENT to subscribe to and pay for data through IB just to have the ability to trade through them. I have an email dialogue going on with a vice president at IB and he tells me he...

I have used Hyperfeed to receive quotes for many years and have had no problems.

Here's a link that has eps quarterly going back to 1988. Hope it helps. http://www.spglobal.com/earnings.html