[GT] Opentick

[R P Herrold <herrold AT owlriver.com>]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, João Costa wrote:

> Anyone here played with opentick.com before ? I'm just starting to
> look at it and my first impression is that it seems promising as a
> data source for financial data.

The reports of their coverage and acccessibility have been ... 
poor.  Last time I looked they were not accepting new users 
(and the load they bring).  I would love to be proven wrong, 
but a need for commercial reliability lead in part to writing 
much code to get at the IB datafarms (history, tick, and book) 
for about everything with the 'trading shim' (as we 'outgrew 
Yahoo! Finance's capabilities, some years ago)

with my best regards,

-- Russ herrold