I think you answered your own question ;<) There is an IB plugin, that allows you to feed IB real-time data to AB, with a maximum backfill of about one month. Check out the download page on the AB site. You will also need to make some small adjustments to TWS, since it also needs to run in the background when feeding data to AB.
Hope this helps, Paul --- In [email protected], "christianvost" <christianv...@...> wrote: > > Hello to the group. > > I need to connect AB to a realtime forex data stream. Eventually I will use > the paper trading account in IB and auto-trade my (1minute) system. > Could I use eSignal as my realtime data vendor, and place trades with IB via > the TWS? > Also, the eSignal subscription is about $125 + ($50 exchange fee) / month, > and I only need one symbol, with hardly any backfill. That seems excessive. > Could I just open a paper trading account with IB and get my data feed from > them? > If anyone knows a cheap ( and good ) way of getting a RT data feed for only > one symbol, could you please let me know. > Thanks... >
