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Hear Hear! Thanks Lesmond for putting a
perspective on this.
Seems like that's all I see on
this forum is IB problems being worked and I and 20 of my AB
friends
in our user groups could care less about using
IB.
Joe
Houston
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 7:55
PM
Subject: [amibroker] AmiBroker and IB
Data Feed
Regarding a number of posts on this forum related to
problems with IB
data feed here is my comment.
Any charting software
that supports data from InteractiveBrokers is
in the same position as
AmiBroker. Minor and major glitches that are
quickly patched up by charting
program's developers and which
reappear a few days/weeks later in the same
or different form with
the introduction of the newer version of TWS (which
is often full of
bugs of its own).
In addition to AmiBroker I also
use SierraChart and the ratio of data
feed problems reported on their
support message board is roughly as
follows:
IB: 20
problems
MyTrack: 1 problem
About the same holds true on this forum
where the ratio of problems
between IB feed and eSignal is about 20:1 as
well.
InteractiveBrokers is primarily a brokerage and not a data
feed.
Users get the data for free as a bonus. They get what they pay
for.
Anybody daytrading futures should be able to pay $70/month for
the
real feed like eSignal and IB should be considered only as a
backup
feed.
While it's understandable why some users like the idea
of using IB
data, the reality is that fixing all the bugs endlessly
generated by
lousy programming on IB's end takes lots of time that
AmiBroker's
developer could spend on enhancing other areas of his
excellent
product.
In short, with all due respect to all users of IB
data, my suggestion
is:
consider IB as a backup feed only and use
something else as a
primary
feed.
Lesmond
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