DionysusToast
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what instruments are you trading ? US stocks? Whose your broker?
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Mr. Charts
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Mainly US stocks and ETFs. I use USAA for now. I use td2000 because it's free and I actually do like it a lot better than some of the pay-for products I've demo'd.
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If you really need Time & Sales, then you will end up needing a proper feed - which will cost you, although just for ETFs it won't be too expensive.
If you don't need Time & Sales but you want the L2, then I'd use Interactive Brokers TWS as they don't charge anything for the data as long as you are pushing trades through (and not many either).
Mr Charts on the board uses IB - he moved there after being a long time eSignal user - he might have some thoughts on it as he's a big L2 user and he seems fine with IB.
If you don't need Time & Sales but you want the L2, then I'd use Interactive Brokers TWS as they don't charge anything for the data as long as you are pushing trades through (and not many either).
Mr Charts on the board uses IB - he moved there after being a long time eSignal user - he might have some thoughts on it as he's a big L2 user and he seems fine with IB.
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You brought it twice?
Very funny, whoever you are. Certainly, you are not a customer.
Feel free to post the details here. Why not start off with proof of purchase, copies of your complaint to me and details of why you'd actually buy a piece of software 2 times.
Should be fun.
Very funny, whoever you are. Certainly, you are not a customer.
Feel free to post the details here. Why not start off with proof of purchase, copies of your complaint to me and details of why you'd actually buy a piece of software 2 times.
Should be fun.
I'm not sure what you are referring to?
Anyway, how reliable is this: Free real time streaming level 2 stock quotes
I don't ever see any of my orders come up. I trade some stocks that have very low liquidity, so I would think that I would see my order. I'm guessing it only gets its data from one source that doesn't show all activity. I'm not at all familiar with how the data gets there.
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Interesting site.
This is what it says on the home page:
"Not all stock orders are shown here regardless of whether they are sent during regular market hours, pre-market or after hours. {...} Stock price and volume shown is not necessarily at the best bid or ask prices and do not reflect the entire stock market order flow. {...} Level 2 data source is provided by a 3rd party."
You are not seeing the entire order flow only the transaction that are flowing through a 3rd party ecn. If you know who the ecn was and you could direct your order there then you'd see it appear.
Peter
This is what it says on the home page:
"Not all stock orders are shown here regardless of whether they are sent during regular market hours, pre-market or after hours. {...} Stock price and volume shown is not necessarily at the best bid or ask prices and do not reflect the entire stock market order flow. {...} Level 2 data source is provided by a 3rd party."
You are not seeing the entire order flow only the transaction that are flowing through a 3rd party ecn. If you know who the ecn was and you could direct your order there then you'd see it appear.
Peter