[quertrader]

Originally Posted by FulcrumTrader »

Correct....that may be possible (have no idea what would cause this for EU based traders though). BTW, I know many EU and Dubai based traders using CD trading methods I have developed (with DTN as their feed for CD work), so I will have to talk with all of them Monday to see what they are detecting.

Hi FulcrumTrader! Any news from your EU based traders yet?

Btw I gote a message from Rithmic that they use TCP for order routing AND their data feed.

[BlowFish]

Originally Posted by quertrader »

Btw I gote a message from Rithmic that they use TCP for order routing AND their data feed.

Hmmm interesting. If that is the case then they must purposely drop ticks under certain conditions.

[davewolfs]

Could anyone provide feedback on eSignal's data feed. DTN has proven to be unreliable when used with Neoticker to track more then 200 symbols. Although I can confirm that their data is very clean.

[EsotericRule]

Zenfire's ES data is only slightly less error ridden than Think or Swims (TD Bank owned), which is god awful. Gaps ranging from several minutes to 2 hours and 40 minutes last week alone on zenfire/ninja.

It's therefore little wonder that NinjaTrader has allied itself with many LaSalle St. 'bucket shops'.

As the Roman crowd is able to consolidate ownership of data sources from the trading floors, your data will become increasingly unreliable.

[BlowFish]

Originally Posted by EsotericRule »

Zenfire's ES data is only slightly less error ridden than Think or Swims (TD Bank owned), which is god awful. Gaps ranging from several minutes to 2 hours and 40 minutes last week alone on zenfire/ninja.

That's weird, I have only ever seen holes of a second or two, never minutes let alone hours. Having said that I don't spend that much time in front of the PC at the moment. When did the 2h 40m outtage occur and did the client show disconnected? Usually an outage of that length the forums and chat rooms would be incandescent with fury. I wonder if you are experiencing another issue as well.

[joshdance]

What's the most recent on this...?

I've abandoned NT as a possibility--I am going to go with either Investor RT or Sierra Chart, which is much faster and intuitive than NT.

I'm trying to decide whether to go with a TT feed from Veocity, a Rithmic feed from Optimus/Vision, or to spring for the $80 or so for a separate IQFeed.

After reading this thread it seems no service is perfect--the question is, is IQFeed at $80-100 a month worth it as compared to a free Rithmic feed?

[FulcrumTrader]

*** UPDATE ***

When tracking any sort of BID/ASK differential tools (Cumulative Delta candlesticks, footprint charts, GomLadder, the new "Prometheus" tool over at bigmiketrading, etc) you MUST use CLEAN DATA ! I have tracked Cumulative Delta now for 8 years and this is the current proper way to track Cumulative Delta;

Investor RT Pro/MarketDelta.com connected to DTN.IQ feed

SC connected to DTN.IQ feed

NT7 connected to DTN.IQ feed

TradeVec connected to DTN.IQ feed

Multicharts connected to DTN.IQ feed (YES indeed!!! I have been working with Multicharts past weeks and they are going to offer Cumulative Delta tools in the months ahead......I have already tested their initial Cumulative Delta candlesticks and I suggested they go ahead and release CD tools for public "beta" testing/feedback........YEEEEEEHA AAAAAA!!!!!)


*** I DO NOT ever recommend using continuous contracts for proper Cumulative Delta tracking or ever doing backfill data (good DTN.IQ feed thrown on top of junk broker supplied data).......DON'T do layering of data for CD tracking. Also, I have not yet found consistent BID/ASK data from Esignal, so I would not use that data at all. I also do not at all suggest using Zenfire, TT Fix, TS data, OEC data, Transact data, IB data, etc. With DTN.IQ feed you get CLEAN exceptionally reliable BID/ASK data with 30 days of historical BID/ASK data access.....this is the only feed I use for BID/ASK data at this time.

For additional details, there is a free webinar over at bigmiketrading this Thursday that covers all aspects of Cumulative Delta usage and data needs.

Hope this info helps!