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I am a DTN internet feed client. Should I be using DTN.IQ or IQFEED?
   

Answer

All Macintosh DTN users use DTN.IQ. IQFEED is not supported on the Macintosh platform.

We recommend all Windows users configure Investor/RT for IQFEED

There are several advantages to using IQFEED. Investor/RT can run simultaneously with other Windows applications, all utilizing IQFEED streaming data. IQFEED customer support is better able to provide support on any data feed issues you may have when you use their standard client software. Recent improvements made to Investor/RT in support of historical data downloading using multiple threads apply to both IQFEED and the Legacy DTN.IQ methods. Investor/RT for IQFEED does not yet support Level II displays and News capture. These will be added in a future release but for now, these features are present only in the DTN.IQ Legacy method.

Again, Windows users will need the DTN IQFEED client installed in order to run Investor/RT with IQFEED.  To download and install this client, click here.

It's easy to identify whether your using DTN.iq or IQFEED by looking at the menu choice between "Windows" and "Help" in your main Investor/RT menu.  To reconfigure from DTN.iq to IQFEED, choose "File: Reconfigure" from the main menu, then select the "DTN-IQFEED" option and press "Reconfigure".  Please install the IQFEED client before reconfiguring.

Investor/RT registration codes for DTN.iq and IQFEED are interchangeable (same code will work with either).

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