real time data vendors?

[Strange]

Thanks a lot for the discussion everyone! Had a chance to think about it in the context of my strategies and the scope of the problems we are having at the moment.



I think at the moment I want something that can be setup quickly (we've been having problems with our current ghetto setup) and that is either easy to dismantle or cheap enough that I would keep it going as a backup. So that is probably going to be iqFeed or something alone these lines. It's even possible that data which is not latency-sensitive we would just keep getting from there.



Once the immediate need is fixed, I am actually tempted to say that using direct exchange feeds is probably the best approach. I am still unclear what technology work that would involve, but the flexibility attached makes it worth while.