That is a good point.  I don't know what account minimums in IT are, but
they aren't too high in the US  - and typically (US) you get free data -
including historical data.

http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=%2Fen%2Ftrading%2Fexchanges.php%3Fexch%3Dbvme%26amp%3Bshowcategories%3D%26amp%3Bib_entity%3Dllc

That is the product list, you can email to see what you can get.

Jeff


On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Brian G. Peterson <brian@braverock.com>wrote:

> On 01/11/2013 04:40 PM, singletonthebest wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the answers!
>> Michael: no particular source in mind. Actually I was hoping to find
>> something for free even if I knew it would have been not much likely.Ā
>>
>> The purpose of my request was due to the fact that I was willing to
>> backtest with R some strategy that requires intraday data.
>>
>
> Try Interactive Brokers.  The IBrokers R package can download intraday
> data.  You may be able to use a free paper trading account to get some
> data.  Typically, though, you have to pay for quality intraday data.
>
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