[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?

[The Bear]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by 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]

Originally Posted by 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.