Is kibot legit place to get tick historical data from

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newdog

I was looking for historical futures 1 min tick data and came across http://www.kibot.com/

They are giving more than 1 symbol all futures for about $350 and they have data from 2009 for one time purchase.

That looks kind of cheap compared to other vendors. Has anyone here used this before?
 
ajensen said:
The Caltech Quantitative Finance Group has criticized the quality of intraday stock data from kibot. They prefer QuantQuote.
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I would not put a lot of trust in the Caltech data guide.

The Caltech Quantitative Finance Group is actually run by the QuantQuote group.

QuantQuote uses the Caltech subdomain, and the university's reputation, to spread fake reviews that masquerade as legitimate; while hiding the fact they are actually advertising and promoting themselves.

Want some proof? Google search for both Quantquote and Caltech. Two common names of interest are the founders of QuantQuote: Jason Stockman and Andy Yen. In fact, according to Jason Stockman's old resume on the Wayback Machine, he foolishly admits to designing both web sites.

To add some follow up, both founders have moved on to their next startup as reported by the CalTech alumni news: ProtonMail.
 
just21 said:
Another source, especially if you want to keep the file up to date, is esignal classic for $55 a month then use qcollector from www.mechtrading.com to get the data you need.
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I used kibot for a while to develop some strategies. It is good for cheap data that goes way back. I only needed 5 minute bars so the data quality was sufficient. However, when I switched to live trading it was insufficient due to the delay in updates to their server. It is generally 8-12 hours behind. I'm now using the esignal/qcollector combo and it is fantastic. And cheaper. The quality of the esignal/qcollector software is much higher as well. The process of updating your data files goes much smoother than with kibot.
 
Have you set it up to update the intraday files in realtime?

baggerlord said:
I used kibot for a while to develop some strategies. It is good for cheap data that goes way back. I only needed 5 minute bars so the data quality was sufficient. However, when I switched to live trading it was insufficient due to the delay in updates to their server. It is generally 8-12 hours behind. I'm now using the esignal/qcollector combo and it is fantastic. And cheaper. The quality of the esignal/qcollector software is much higher as well. The process of updating your data files goes much smoother than with kibot.
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