The problem with the nt platform is that it is not stable and offers only futures as a brokerage. I do have also a nt license and in my experience nt is far behind the ts platform.

I will open a account with TS the data is beter and faster than the 300 milliseconds snapshot data that interactive brokers offers and is good enough for providing signals. At the moment the problem is that only a view brokers do offer a whole package off forex, stock, option and futures data. It wo...

Hello Matricks, Thanks for you're recommendation. I will have contact tomorrow witt both parties TS and Iqfeed. And i hope to test both software in a week so i can what is the best solution. Hello Hilbert, Yes downloading new data takes much longer then 4 month ago. In my view interactive brokers di...

Hello MAtricks, I use interactive brokers as my broker and the data for backtesting my strategies with i run in realtime automatically mode. I am building these strategies to sell them on several sites like Collective2. But it is mostly impossible to create a strategy on several new instruments like...

The last weeks i am very frustrated about the very very very slow data that interactive brokers delivers when to open a 350 milliseconds chart. (tick chart) I do have a extra package off 30 dollars for more symbols but not any results. I like to switch to TS because i can get forex, stock and future...

A question to MC. When will this big bug be adjusted since it affects backtesting and real-time strategy testing a trading strategy?

In my point of view this charttype is only usefull for manually trading.

When backtesting or running a simulated strategy then a buy order is the lowest ask price and the sell order is the highest bid price.

Hello Matricks,

I agree with you that the backtesting and trading results in realtime simulated modus are not realistic and to optimistic. Buying at the bid price and selling at the ask price is not what happens in the realtradingworld it has to be the opposite.