Re: [GT] Opentick

["João Costa" <joaocosta AT zonalivre.org>]

Are you using InteractiveBrokers data ? Have you looked at the TREE dataserver ?
tree.sourceforge.net


On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:21 PM, R P Herrold <herrold
AT
owlriver.com> wrote:
> 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
>