Traders' Roundtable

I'm pretty certain that for cash, live data, you don't get anything better than Reuters, it is certainly the choice for almost everybody in the institutional market. GTIS Forex through RealTick sounds kind of interesting though, I haven't tried it out yet, but they say they use around 80 individual ...

I'm under the impression that Olsen is some of the best data you can get, but I must admit I haven't actually bought anything from them, so I don't really know for sure. It's quite expensive though. Certainly the work they have done on filtering high-frequency data is quite impressive, and I presume...

When trying to design systems, platforms, software etc., I'm a firm believer in that the basic buidling blocks need to be ultra-high quality. For example if you get bad data from a quote vendor, it doesn't really matter how much money or time you spend on front-ends and system design, the results wi...