We are losing polygon data!? ;/

Does anyone know how to subscribe pro plan? I cannot seem to find it in the dashboard.

They haven’t added the sign up page yet, but it will be located within the dashboard.

Another question: is there any benchmark done for comparing pro stream data vs. Polygon? Or any data difference itself? And where is the data center for Alpaca?

We don’t know much about this yet. Here’s a comment from Polygon’s CEO:

I would love to be of more help here, but I know little about [Alpaca’s] new API at this point. It’s hard to say pros/cons until we know more. The main difference I can see so far is that we offer data back to 2004, whereas their data goes back 5yrs. Reference data and Latencies may also be a factor, but unsure until we are able to test/compare. Sorry!

Final question, when will python api get updated? It still uses previous V1 data right now.

Not sure when, but in the meantime, you can see the changes in the Data v2 pull request. It was last updated a few hours ago.

Thank you so much for the reply!

Can you expand on this?
There are two fees I am really getting pussed about on Etrade: one is the SEC fee that they round up to the penny on EVERY sell transacation. the second is the reorganization fee $38.
I am now aware of fees when you do more than 30 trades a quarter.
Thanks

@Peter have we gotten any new information on where the data center is? This question is indicating the Alpaca data is 20% less trade stream than Polygon, but I haven’t seen anyone from Alpaca comment on this on any forum.

Which Secacus datacenter is Polygon’s?

They are in Equinix – New York (Secaucus) Data Centers NY2 & NY4. https://polygon.io/blog/were-moving-datacenters/

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You can still use the polygon integration in the tradeapi if you have your own polygon api key. Just create a separate api variable with the polygon key as the key id.

Hi, can I ask which host provider service you are using? Equinix seems to be large firms focus on 2b plans.
Thanks a lot!