Can I connect to an additional data feed, when using IB as broker?
You can use data provided by Interactive Brokers, yet there are some restrictions regarding the historical requests. Learn more about historical requests overflow as well as further relevant details in the section Essential information about IB.
Therefore AgenaTrader offers you the possibility to connect to an additional professional data feed (Teletrader, Taipan, Barchart, IQFeed). You will have to open an account with one of them.
In Main -> Connections you can add a new data feed account right away by clicking "Add New Account":
Choose your data feed provider, ascribe an account name (to simplify matters, we recommend to use the name of the datafeed provider as account name) and enter the credentials, you have received from your data feed provider, in the context menu.
Please note! It is crucial that you now define in account connection settings, which data you want to get from the data feed and which ones from IB. This is relevant, as IB Indices CFDs cannot be requested from an external data feed but only from IB directly.
Example: Taipan as data feed provider
In Account Connections -> "Connections"-tab, you now have to activate IB as broker and data feed, Taipan as datafeed only:
Now the instrument types have to be selected in "Datafeeds"-tab. Here it is important to not choose the same instrument types, as this would lead to an error message, once you connect AgenaTrader with IB and Taipan. Therefore please select CFDs only for IB and all those instrument types exept CFDs, you have subscribed for with Taipan: