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This really depends on how you want to trade. If you are wanting to write your own platform and are a retail trader Interactive Brokers is the best broker that I know of.
That said, if you want to work within the world of the brokers and their platforms (and other platforms like NT or MC) you can do those routes. NT is well regarded here on futures.io (formerly BMT).
If you're referring to the IB quote fees, keep in mind the basic quote fee is waived as long as you generate x number of dollars in commissions per month. The commission figure is pretty small, $30/mo I think.
You might wait to explore TradeMonster after their merger with OptionsHouse is completed. I have accounts with both (plus IB) and it's unclear to date whether the TM or OH platform will be the "survivor" or perhaps some hybrid of the two.
FWIW, for manual options trading, I think TradeMonster is the slowest of three firms mentioned above.
I keep seeing these advertisements for unfiltered data.....
Isn't the whole point of filtering the data to ensure that a rogue/erroneous data point won't ruin your day? If you have a stop in place and a bad piece of data comes in, that exceeds …