Brief overview of IQFeed
IQFeed is one of the leaders in the international financial market regarding data delivery in real time. Its main advantage is that it transfers the historical data and quotes tick-by-tick, allowing traders to view all short-term changes on a chart.
You can open a real or demo account at IQFeed via our website.
Connecting
Please follow the instructions in the following video to establish the connection correctly:
Essential information
Futures trading IQFeed/TeleTrader
If you use IQFeed as a data feed provider you can integrate the desired contract into the chart using the Instrument Escort.
- Select the "Instrument Escort" menu item from the Tools menu.
- In order to use this functionality, select "Read/Mapping instruments" within the Instrument Escort or the "Instruments: Markets & Mappings“ menu item in the Tools menu.
- As long as you are using a demo account from IQ the available history will be limited. As soon as you switch to a live-account you will be able to see all available history from IQ.
Important! Minute data is available for years back. However, tick data is only available for 8 days back during market hours and 180 days outside market hours.
Additional options
There are three possible ways to load the futures contract history:
Continuous CC = continuous contract. This allows you to map the Front Month history, and the gaps between the contracts will still be visible.
FrontMonth FM = actual contract according to calendar only
BackAdjusted BA = This is a continuous contract, however there are no longer any gaps between different contracts.
For IQFeed "Continuous" or "Back adjusted" contracts it is not possible to have more than ONE instrument with the same type/mapping.
For example: the simultaneous mapping of FDAXSept13 & FDAXDec13 is not possible. If you have 2 instruments with the same mapping you will receive an error message in the Protocol tab notifying you which values are being referred to. The reason for this is that the IQFeed always attaches the historical data to the Front Month contract, which is automatically shifted to the following Front Month contract one day before the rollover.
After changing the contract, reconnection is required.
Cumulative Indices
Only displayed and can be added to the chart if connected to one of the following datafeeds: Teletrader, Taipan, IQFeed or Barchart. They display an oscillator of cumulated data of the specific index.
ATTENTION! To be able to see the Cumulative Indices, you must select "All" or "Index" for your specific datafeed in the Datafeed-Tab in the Account connection set-up.