Explore it! :)

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Daniel Perez <[email protected]>wrote:

> I wanted to mention that your idea is really well founded.  When doing
> quantitative analysis of market data, it is very important to have options
> for market data feeds.  I do not engage in HFT trading, so that is not an
> issue, but for a variety of reasons I can't be tied to a single data
> source.  I hope this idea is explored further.
>
>
> On Monday, July 15, 2013 4:41:46 AM UTC-4, Miguel wrote:
>>
>> I don't think there is any study comparing IB and IQFeed. From the
>> comments I have read in several forums, it should be more reliable. It is a
>> company that only does market data, so they should be more committed to
>> this task than a broker. With the 5.0 version of the protocol you have
>> millisecond stamped updates, so this is better than the 250ms IB updates
>> but this currently doesn't matter with Jbooktrader as it is currently doing
>> 1sec snapshots of order book. For JBooktrader, the main advantage could be
>> to be able to capture more data in parallel and in a more cost effective
>> way. In any case it could be integrated in JBooktrader not as a replacement
>> but as an alternative to IB data.
>>
>> As soon as I have time I will do a comparison of the two for the same day
>> so we can check if the change could alter the behaviour of JBooktrader
>> strategies.
>>
>> On Friday, July 12, 2013 5:36:16 PM UTC+2, Eugene Kononov wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Miguel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, it's just a data feed, you have to keep two connections: brokerage
>>>> and data feed. It adds another point of failure to the system, but you also
>>>> have a much better data feed and it is less expensive if you trade several
>>>> futures at the same time.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hello Miguel,
>>>
>>> Is there some study out there that compares the quality of the L2 feed
>>> between IB and IQFeed, or perhaps you compared the two feeds by yourself?
>>> I'd be interested to see that type of comparison. If there are clear
>>> advantages of using IQFeed over IB, I'd be very motivated to integrate
>>> IQFeed with JBT.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> E.
>>>
>>>
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