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Post From: If everyone offering stock data is garbage, then what data service do I use for stocks?

[2020-02-12 01:45:43]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
If you wish to go ahead and work through the documentation for Interactive Brokers, Trader Workstation (TWS), see below (TWS would be all you need, you don't need to use the IB Gateway).
Interactive Brokers Trading Service

There is also a section on accessing market depth data:
Interactive Brokers Trading Service: Accessing Level 2 / Market Depth Data for Stocks

Keep in mind the symbols used for market depth data are different than the symbols for charting. This is one of the frustrating complexities of working with TWS.


If it would frustrate you to work through IB's TWS, and we ourselves don't believe it is of the best technical quality, we would recommend that you wait until Sierra Chart has procured Market Depth Data for Stocks directly, we would expect to have this in-place before the end of the 2nd Quarter of 2020.
Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level

Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy:
https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation

For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, *change* to the Teton service:
Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing