I don't want to do something that will create a lot of unnecessary overhead, but if I created a ports with 1000's of symbols just to get the news , how does MT get that news?
Would it have to poll each symbol? That would be costly in terms of data.
ThinkOrSwim simply scrolls the news as it comes in. It's not very busy, so I don't know why Ameritrade wouldn't let you do the same thing.