Interactive Brokers and Historical Data

[gsmaster]

Hello everyone,

this question is for anyone who can help me with this... anyone with the experience who can guide me will be great:

I have recently opened my account at IB and at the moment I went to create the connections in NT I noticed that there are extra ratio buttons to get HISTORICAL DATA from IB servers.... actually I have not yet access to real time data in IB (dont want to pay for the real time market fees if still not trading) because I am still working other areas of my trading therefore that is why I am asking... is it possible to get historical data from IB servers for any futures or stock???

If that is possible then I will obviously pay for the access immediately.

Also if this is not possible, does anyone know where can I find free historical end of day data for the futures? or anything close to free :)

Thank you very much for your help

GS

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

OpenTick works great. Sign up for the exchanges you want and just opt for their delayed servers. Everything is free unless you want real-time data. For development purposes their delayed servers should suffice.

www.opentick.com

[gsmaster]

thank you very much for that great tip

GS

[giles117]

If you have opened an IB account, it comes with a Basic Free Realtime/Historical Data Pkg.

All Equities except Pinks and OTC.
CBT/CME/NYMEX Futures Data

[NinjaTrader_Ryan]

Hello:

Thank you very much for sharing.

For reference purposes, you may verify what historical data is offered by all of our supported broker/datafeeds in the link below:
http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/HistoricalData.html

Best regards,