I can get 225 on Osaka for 29 a month I think. Eurex for 15....ice for 110....I think aus asx is included and Singapore sgx can be had for a decent amount.
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yes, futures only. Again, as said, if you only trade those contracts then that is a decent offering on the data side. I do not know about AMP, how secure they are, I do not know in what fashion they segregate client funds, I do not know through whom they clear and who holds the deposits. Neither do I know about their history of outages or hickups. Thus I cannot speak to that, but those are huge and important unkowns that anyone wanting to switch brokers should ask and inquire about.
They are an FCM, they clear trades and also clear for several other IBs. funds are held at BMO Harris bank in Chicago. I'm not sure on their segregation policies. I think they are a pretty small FCM.
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What I see is that they only give away CQG QTrader, which does not allow any sort of API access. So basically this is a pure discretionary trader offer, only. No spreader included. No backtester included. Only 90 days historical intraday data, and all else costs extra and that by a massive amount. And no access to Korea, Hong Kong, and a number European futures exchanges. And even if you can subscribe to such data via CQG I doubt AMP would be able to help clearing them. It seems very geared to US futures trading.
What I see is that they only give away CQG QTrader, which does not allow any sort of API access. So basically this is a pure discretionary trader offer, only. No spreader included. No backtester included. Only 90 days historical intraday data, and all else costs extra and that by a massive amount. And no access to Korea, Hong Kong, and a number European futures exchanges. And even if you can subscribe to such data via CQG I doubt AMP would be able to help clearing them. It seems very geared to US futures trading.
and you would trust them with 100k funding? 200k? 500k? Just asking questions. Again, I do not know BMO Harris Bank (should that worry me? ).
I trade CME products, and if needed I could add ICE and LIFFE and SFE and JPX and SGX exchanges blah blah blah for an extra fee...But why would I want to? I don't need to trade those products. I have so many instruments to choose from, within the CME suite, that I don't NEED to look all across the world's exchanges to find something to trade.
Now...If you have some funky hedging thing going on with foreign securities and US securities, OK, I get it. But for me it is not relevant, and thus not necessary. The point here is, to each their own. I pay $15 per month for my exchange access as a flat rate. The exchange and transfer fees, whatever, on a per-contract basis, fit my trading needs.
I never had a problem with your posts in the past, Zzzz1. But it reads like you are trying to get into some sort of argument, just for the sake of arguing. You feeling ok?
I feel ok, thanks for asking. And maybe I was overly zealous re IB. You are right, to each his own. If your solution fits your needs, all the power to you. It does not fit my needs and I am thankful to IB for providing access to so many markets and saving me the cost of a Bloomberg terminal. (though I lease Reuters Eikon). For starters, I need full API access even for my discretionary strategies (I always execute orders via my own execution algorithms that sit on my own server and get me in and out of markets, whether originated by my fully systematized architecture or discretionary approach).
That's the Pro rate. The non-Pro rate should be around $2 a month. While only $27 difference, if you're not a Pro, I'd complain.
Many in this thread are mentioning CQG data. I don't know if it's true for futures data from all exchanges that CQG covers, but FYI for OSE Nikkei Futures data, CQG does not filter the data, and the result is that rollover data is combined with normal auction data(unbelievable!). So not only are prices faulty, but volume data is a total disaster. IB does filter the data.
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