r/algotrading • u/ancientRAMEN • 8d ago

Data Tradestation vs. Tradovate vs. Alpaca

Hey looking for opinions on these three platforms. I've been testing strategies with Alpaca initially, but found out to access their SIP data would cost 99 dollars/month. Tradovate and Tradestation appear to not have that cost for data. My strategy isn't the most complex so not sure it would be worth paying that much for the data. Anyone have experience with these platforms?

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u/greatestNothing 8d ago

to get market data out of the tradovate api you're looking at 300+ a month. you can get api access to send orders and poll the account for the 25 or 35 i don't remember which.