You definitely do NOT need to do any such thing unless you want to get Open Book data in QT. You just need to be subscribed to whatever exchanges that you want to get data on. If the quote on a given symbol works in TWS it will work in QT.Quote from AeroKen83:
But the wierd thing is, IB customer service said that I need to subscrip with the NYSE open book realtime for $60 for QT to work