I use newsFeed sucessfully, but ... IB is not the way to get it.
I hypothesis that every thing you can see on TWS Station Headline news is available trough the API
For now nothing goes against this hypothesis. BUT be sure to subscribe to the feed in your account and familiarize yourself with the syntax for Ticker and Exhcange for news. IB recycle field in an rather odd way that require experiment
Things like
??? orqNews4.SetSymbol??? ("DJNL:DJNL_ALL");////BroadTape All News, DJN
?? ?orqNews4.SetType??? ("NEWS");
?? ?orqNews4.SetExchange("DJNL");
?
Comment:
IB news feed are generally cheaper than direct subscription to services, but they receive curated version (however fast enough)
If you intend to use "Behavioral trading" be ready to pay 100K/year, that the "ticket" to get 'Tweeter $Symbol API' , Bezinga WIM. Reuters direct etc ,,, that are pretty expensive. And don't be fooled, theses guys doesn't sale that much cheaper to IB so there is no secret weapons to get cheap instant feed. News wires know the price of news
Be aware that the faster you want the news the more you must pay.
Generally big brokerage firm get news 5 to 10 min before individuals. Don's forget Yahoo Finance that does a pretty good job for free.
