Tradestation CBOT data fee?

JBahn · #1 (**permalink**) 01-07-2008, 12:01 PM

Just out of curiosity, is anyone else paying data fees for YM CBOT data? I recently signed up for a TS account, and now I am told it is $55 for CBOT Data. I was always under the impression that YM data was free. I know I am not charged for it in either esignal or IB.

Thoughts?

The Bear · #2 (**permalink**) 01-07-2008, 03:02 PM

It was a free promotion for a number of yrs but it's over now. I think it just ended a couple of weeks ago.

Minetoo · #3 (**permalink**) 01-07-2008, 03:08 PM

CBOT data fee is a direct result of the CME takeover - gotta pay those bills ya' know. If you are just trading the ES, a cheap (free) workaround in TS would be to use the DOW cash index ($INDU) instead of the futures.

JBahn · #4 (**permalink**) 01-07-2008, 03:13 PM

They wait until they hook you and then bam. Thanks for the info on that. I dont mind paying the fee if that is the way it is, just wanted to make sure I wasnt being taken for a ride.

Thanks again.

jmbigwood · #5 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 12:46 AM

There are brokers that (so far) manage to roll the market fee increases into their (unchanged) round-turn commission... PFG for example. Trade Navigator is a great platform, but I still use TradeStation.

Minetoo · #6 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 02:32 PM

	Quote:	jmbigwood
	There are brokers that (so far) manage to roll the market fee increases into their (unchanged) round-turn commission... PFG for example. Trade Navigator is a great platform, but I still use TradeStation.

Good point. I use Infinity and for about $25/mth you get Sierra Charts - a whole charting program for less than the cost of CBOT data at TS! I still will keep my TS account tho' since redundancy is always good.

MC · #7 (**permalink**) 01-12-2008, 10:46 AM

	Quote:	JBahn
	Just out of curiosity, is anyone else paying data fees for YM CBOT data? I recently signed up for a TS account, and now I am told it is $55 for CBOT Data. I was always under the impression that YM data was free. I know I am not charged for it in either esignal or IB. Thoughts?

This is why I'm leaving TS, well it was the icing on the cake along with slippage.
Sucks cause I love their platform but not enough to put up with the issues I had and now the fee for data.

OEC is one I'm looking very heavily at.

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