whats the deal with open tick?

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i'm sure this has been touched on before, but can't find a good thread w/ search.

whats the deal with open tick?
is the data reliable? whats in it for them? etc.?
 
I can't say anything about the reliability, although the impression is that they are not bad for real time data, even if people complain.

But I found something for the "what's in it for them" question:

http://www.opentick.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46

As I'm sure you may be aware, this is a difficult industry to enter into. We are simply looking to gain a userbase and get people using our product in an effort to make our service better.

In the next year or so we intend to be launching a number of additional services, including FIX based broker-neutral order routing. At that time, users not utilizing order routing may have to pay a nominal fee for market data service.
 
Quote from andread:

I can't say anything about the reliability, although the impression is that they are not bad for real time data, even if people complain.

But I found something for the "what's in it for them" question:

http://www.opentick.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46

As I'm sure you may be aware, this is a difficult industry to enter into. We are simply looking to gain a userbase and get people using our product in an effort to make our service better.

In the next year or so we intend to be launching a number of additional services, including FIX based broker-neutral order routing. At that time, users not utilizing order routing may have to pay a nominal fee for market data service.
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I talked with them last year and i expressed my hope that they could always keep their market data costs very low by finding a way to make money thru some market related method...

i still hope they do so...
 
They're also getting pretty widespread support in various charting and system development software, so they'll definitely be in a position to compete with other feeds if they cease to offer data for free.
 
Quote from andread:

I can't say anything about the reliability, although the impression is that they are not bad for real time data, even if people complain.

But I found something for the "what's in it for them" question:

http://www.opentick.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46

As I'm sure you may be aware, this is a difficult industry to enter into. We are simply looking to gain a userbase and get people using our product in an effort to make our service better.

In the next year or so we intend to be launching a number of additional services, including FIX based broker-neutral order routing. At that time, users not utilizing order routing may have to pay a nominal fee for market data service.
More...
That was two years ago. I still see no service they can monetise on. Who are they and what are they doing?
 
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That was two years ago. I still see no service they can monetise on. Who are they and what are they doing?
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yes, the post is old. But I'm not sure if something changed
 
Quote from andread:

I can't say anything about the reliability, although the impression is that they are not bad for real time data, even if people complain.

But I found something for the "what's in it for them" question:

http://www.opentick.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46

As I'm sure you may be aware, this is a difficult industry to enter into. We are simply looking to gain a userbase and get people using our product in an effort to make our service better.

In the next year or so we intend to be launching a number of additional services, including FIX based broker-neutral order routing. At that time, users not utilizing order routing may have to pay a nominal fee for market data service.
More...


Thank you Andread. I've been wondering about the "What's in it for them" question too.
 
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