What data subscription do I need for trading Micro E-Mini futures?

GrowleyMonster · Sep 10, 2020

I already have live data for stocks and ETFs. I currently do not trade FOREX or commodities or options and have no definite plans to do so in the near future. I do want to day/swing trade the micros, though. MNQ, for example. I followed the ibot recommendation and it is unclear to me what data subscriptions I need to add for live micro emini data. Also I only see the descriptions and prices. I do not see where I actually subscribe to more data. My TWS charts say I have delayed data. My usual charting platform, TradingView, does not seem to have futures data available, so no help there.

DevBru · Sep 10, 2020

I already have live data for stocks and ETFs. I currently do not trade FOREX or commodities or options and have no definite plans to do so in the near future. I do want to day/swing trade the micros, though. MNQ, for example. I followed the ibot recommendation and it is unclear to me what data subscriptions I need to add for live micro emini data. Also I only see the descriptions and prices. I do not see where I actually subscribe to more data. My TWS charts say I have delayed data. My usual charting platform, TradingView, does not seem to have futures data available, so no help there.

Of course Tradingview has futures data ...

Overnight · Sep 10, 2020

2 bux per month is cheep if you just want the MNQ, MES, MYM. (You'd choose the CME GLOBEX.)

Big AAPL · Sep 10, 2020

Get the bundled CQG at @30/mo...can't be beat and it gives you an unfiltered data stream that is as good a you can get at the retail level...pick a boutique specializing in futures and you will not be sorry at the speed of execution

Overnight · Sep 10, 2020

Big AAPL said:
Get the bundled CQG at @30/mo...can't be beat and it gives you an unfiltered data stream that is as good a you can get at the retail level...pick a boutique specializing in futures and you will not be sorry at the speed of execution

Here's what I don't get though...According to that Tradingview screenshot, choosing the bundle individually (Globex, Nymex, COMEX and CBOT) would cost him only 8 bux per month. What would he really be getting with the 2 bux per month on an individual leg of the bundle? Pricing seems off.

Big AAPL · Sep 10, 2020

Well that would be a dealbreaker for me...with Trading view. Which is why I recommended a bundled package with a boutique available at a number of of futures brokers with CQG...

And NO I am not a shill for CQG...I don't have that type of that deep scrotum

GrowleyMonster · Sep 10, 2020

DevBru said:
Of course Tradingview has futures data ...

<face palm> Ah. Thanks! Any idea which one in IB? it doesn't seem like such a clear choice. Well anyway I will subscribe to TradingView's data and just use TWS for order entry, I think.

harami · Sep 10, 2020

GrowleyMonster said:
I already have live data for stocks and ETFs. I currently do not trade FOREX or commodities or options and have no definite plans to do so in the near future. I do want to day/swing trade the micros, though. MNQ, for example. I followed the ibot recommendation and it is unclear to me what data subscriptions I need to add for live micro emini data. Also I only see the descriptions and prices. I do not see where I actually subscribe to more data. My TWS charts say I have delayed data. My usual charting platform, TradingView, does not seem to have futures data available, so no help there.

It's buried deep within the account settings. Login to the user portal, then using the menu on the left, go to:
-Settings
-User Settings
-Market Data Subscriptions
-Current GFIS Subscriptions
-Level 1 or Level 2 (depending which one you want)
-Select "CME Real-Time".

GrowleyMonster · Sep 10, 2020

Nice. Thanks!

harami said:
It's buried deep within the account settings. Login to the user portal, then using the menu on the left, go to:
-Settings
-User Settings
-Market Data Subscriptions
-Current GFIS Subscriptions
-Level 1 or Level 2 (depending which one you want)
-Select "CME Real-Time".

Thanks. That was buried pretty deep, alright.

GrowleyMonster · Sep 11, 2020

So thanks, all who replied. I now have live market data on MNQ playing in TWS, and also on TradingView. One trick on TradingView... if you have it connected to Alpaca, you have to unselect the option to only show instruments that are tradeable on Alpaca. They don't have futures. When I found that while troubleshooting why I still didn't have anything but question marks, and changed it, I suddenly had a beautiful chart displayed in my browser. Here is a TWS chart, daily candles:

And here is a TradingView chart. One minute candles.