Non-display fees

Is there anyone here day trading succesfully using only IB Market Data?

Yes. For non-HFT, with an IB account, only a fool would pay for a data feed. Remember, your goal as a daytrader is to predict volatility. This means fast moving market assessments. Retail tick data providers choke up during these cycles. IB data holds up well, even through their API.
 
The willful choice to charge by firm and not by user reveals the complete corruption of the regulatory agencies. It is absolutely designed to discriminate against individual algorithmic traders, indeed to keep them out of the market entirely.
 
The willful choice to charge by firm and not by user reveals the complete corruption of the regulatory agencies. It is absolutely designed to discriminate against individual algorithmic traders, indeed to keep them out of the market entirely.

I just don't think the SEC should have approved the non-display fees without an exemption for the public customer. OPRA has provided an exemption for some customers (After they raised their fee to $2000/month!). I'd like to see the NYSE offer the same. https://www.opradata.com/pdf/fee_schedule.pdf

The Category 1 Non-Display Fee shall not apply in the case of an OPRA data recipient
during any complete calendar month during which the data recipient (i) has a single
UserID (a single natural person) that uses OPRA data for Non-Display Use for the benefit
of that UserID and (ii) is not a broker-dealer and does not place more than 390 orders in
listed options per day on average during the calendar month (counting orders for this
purpose in accordance with the rules of the OPRA Participant exchanges to which it
submits orders during the month) for its own beneficial account(s).
 
WOW! Great post, Joan. Thank you. I have to read through this stuff.

At first glance, I don't think that it's going to change much. The whole point is to paywall algorithmic trading, to keep those profits in the Inner Sanctum.
 
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