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Alex,
I have a license of MetaServer for IB, and it does what it is supposed
to. I have not used it in over a year. I got myself a TS subscription,
and for the price of monthly exchange data fee, and a very reasonably
priced 10 r/t a month, I have the whole thing for free. Yes, you need to
keep 5-10k in TS account, but the commission can actually be cheaper
than IB.
I really, really like the concept of having my own copy of data, and
ts2ki. I love ts2ki! But in practice, I have found it to be much more
profitable, easy, and relaxing to have on-demand data on anything I
like. I still have recurring fantasy trips of going back to ts2ki +
MetaServer, but I usually soon come back to my senses. Actually, for
this very reason I have never paid much attention to MultiCharts, in
spite of such glowing reviews from venerable list members, because then
I have to manage data! Yikes!
My 2 cents. But, if you must, MetaServer works just fine - just run it
in a clean machine with not much else running - specially anything that
likes to open or listen to tcp-ip sockets. Also, TradeBullet seems to
just do order routing to IB, but not act as a data feed from IB.
Abhijit
On 12/6/2009 6:29 PM, alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks. Sorry I didn't make it clear in my post, but I need
TradeStation access to Interactive Brokers for intraday data, not EOD
data. For EOD, I use Pinnacle.
Years ago I used the MetaServer demo to work with intraday ES, but
that was 1 computer and 3 operating systems ago. Just wondered if
there was anything new besides TradeBullet (which isn't practical due
to requiring a subscription). Free or one-time cost is what I'm after.
I noticed something odd. I can hook up NinjaTrader to Interactive
Brokers easily, and it somehow manages to retrieve a history! I didn't
even know IB maintained any history. Can MetaServer enable
TradeStation to do that, these days?
-Alex
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Rod Wheeler wrote:
I have used MetaServer RT for IB for years. It is rock solid. When
I needed it, as in switching computers, support was immediate and
professional.
MetaServer RT offers nothing but value IMHO.
I can't speak to the EOD thing as I trade interday.
No affiliation, blah, blah. Your milage may vary.
Rod
----- Original Message ----- From: <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 9:57 PM
Subject: TS2000i to IB - what is good these days?
I mostly do work with EOD methods so I don't need to hook up
TradeStation 2000i to a data feed.
However, if I need to get a feed from Interactive Brokers, what's
the favored way people on this list like to use?
Metaserver RT still has a demo version that lets you work with 2
symbols.
There's also this thing called TradeBullet, but it requires a
monthly subscription. Forget it. I need this capability only
occasionally, so it isn't worth paying a subscription.
I thought there was another one around for free, but I can't
remember the name.
-Alex
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