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Just wanted to take a minute to say "THANKS!" to IQFeed's Robert Carrillo, Jay Froscheiser and IQFeed Dev Support Tim Walter.
A couple of weeks ago I decided to replace my retail trading platform with my own "platform" that I would build from scratch using R. Everything has gone exceedingly well, and the IQFeed API has made the process very smooth.
FRED is one of many sources. I am mainly using IQFeed. Yes, this is R with a MySQL backend. I started using R for the first time two or three weeks ago, and have managed to write a hundred or so functions so far to automate my algo projects and remove …
And you can also find info in the main MySQL tick db thread.
Thanks for all your help and support this year @Robert Carrillo !
-AT
"Is it hard? Not if you have the right attitude. It's having the right attitude that's hard." - Robert Pirsig
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Want to make everybody aware of the DTN IQFeed YouTube channel. There are currently 14 videos with subjects ranging from using IQFeed Diagnostics, to using IQFeed streaming news client, to setting up IQFeed in various software (more to come).
I usually have praise for IQFeed, but there is one problem I ran into with your API. You don't provide an adjusted price that accounts for splits and dividends, nor do you supply the necessary data for me to adjust it on my side.
So I have to go externally for this data, such as Yahoo. In R there is the package quantmod which supports retrieving dividends and splits from Yahoo using the getDividends() and getSplits() functions, hopefully it helps someone else who runs into this issue.
Using that approach, I am able to store the dividend and split dates in my database.
I hope that you will consider adding this to IQFeed to make it more seamless.
There is a lot of fuss going on now about the CME fees and it got me thinking.
Currently you , like most of your customers and re-branders, are focused on US markets. There are some traders that focus on markets other than those main ones and that that love your service but end up paying over the top because the international markets come as an exceptional bundle on top of your basic service.
Do you see a way to say offer something like a "Eurex" only package or even something specific to one exchange only ?
We are discussing this over here too , but I thought I would bring the water to the well.
I am speaking here of a pure data feed service and nothing bundled to a broker or any of that stuff.
I've been watching that thread and thinking about your situation. It looks like you're currently using Kinetick for EUREX? Is that $50/mo for Basic + $25/mo for Intl Futures + EUREX exch fee?
Please believe me I'm not trying to save 5 of your American Dollars here ... just wondering if strategically for European or Asian focused customers you could get rid of some stuff ..
Well, I will save you 17 American Dollars right off the bat. Contact Kinetick and tell them to cancel the EUREX Level 1 exchange. The 23 USD EUREX Level 2 feed includes Level 1, so you don't need both.
I like the idea of having a lower cost bundled feed with only EUREX, the challenge being that there must be a base service it can attach to. IQFeed Core Service/Kinetick Basic is a fat feed since it includes so much (real-time stocks, real time indexes/indicators, streaming news, delayed US and Intl futures, tons of historical data, etc). I don't know if we could eliminate enough of that from a bundled EUREX feed to make it desirable or cost effective, but it's worth giving some thought to.