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Data Feed for Multicharts.

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Looking for a budget (real time) data feed for multicharts that will give me a solid clean feed, I am trading the S&P futures and currencies :2c:

 

Below is a list of compatible data feeds for multicharts.

http://www.tssupport.com/multicharts/datamanagement/#datasource

 

What would you recommend and why between the budget data feeds like Esignal, Quote.com, Tradestation 8, IQ Feed.

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Tradestation and Esignal are absolutely dreadful, especially for the price. IQ feed isnt bad, but not exactly on budget for starting out. I'd look at a broker feed, which should be free for a live account or a very small fee for demo accounts. I recommend OEC, they have every bit of data you could ever want. But do your own DD.

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I also heard IQ was not bad at all. I wonder when TSS will integrate MC with TT. Anyone experienced with Interactive Brokers' feed?

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AGN, TransAct, Infinity (this is the same data feed but branded with different IB's names) data feeds not recommended for serious traders beacause:

 

1. they fail to backfill data from time to time (see MC forum at TSS) - yesterday they failed to backfill. See the screenshot.

2. they e.g. plot Saturday sessions when there are no sessions on this day (see MC forum at TSS); or they plot bad ticks on each Eurex instruments on 00:00:01, and similar annoying things that you will need to live with.

Summary: If you are a budget trader and you want free data, like I do, consider going for any of the above.

 

Zen-Fire, good and accurate data, but no backfill with MC at all (see MC forum at TSS). Summary: Whether you want free data or are unexperienced traded, Zen-Fire as a data feed for your MC is not for you cause it NEVER backfills data.

 

Regards

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Zenfire is live data feed and order execution engine. It has never offered historical data regardless of charting software. I think people might get confused as if you use Ninja they record historical Zenfire data on their servers and provide that as a service to their customers.

 

Edit - currencies might be a problem. I use IB for spot FX and despite them drawing criticism for aggregating ticks they are actually pretty good for FX though they do not save historical tick volume for some reason. IB's data is solid and clean you just wont get every tick. This may or may not be acceptable to you. IB's data has been discussed at length elsewhere at Traders Laboratory.

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What is 'enough' varies person to person. IQfeed is a good value feed but last I looked they only provide 30 days of tick history. If all you need is 1 minute bars of course that's not a problem. maybe you don't need history at all (I have maintained my own data for the longest time though multicharts does trash it now and then) Horses for courses and all that. Mind you the OP made no mention of historical data but that is definitely one of the (numerous) things to consider.

 

Does IQfeed provide FX? I presume the OP is talking about spot FX, maybe some clarification on that and historical data requirements?

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So far yes. 30 days of tick data is like swimming in it compared to the 7 spotty days AGN provides. I'm sure as I progress i'll require more but so far the idea of using IQ data and placing trades on AGNs AT seems possible.

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As long as you collect data and store it in MC's database over time you can build your own history. The 30 days really is the maximum you can go without backfilling (if you manage your own data) so maybe adequate. If you go that route back up your MC database every couple of weeks or so!!!!

 

What spout FX, Spot or futures? That makes a big difference imho.

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What is 'enough' varies person to person. IQfeed is a good value feed but last I looked they only provide 30 days of tick history. If all you need is 1 minute bars of course that's not a problem. maybe you don't need history at all (I have maintained my own data for the longest time though multicharts does trash it now and then) Horses for courses and all that. Mind you the OP made no mention of historical data but that is definitely one of the (numerous) things to consider.

 

Does IQfeed provide FX? I presume the OP is talking about spot FX, maybe some clarification on that and historical data requirements?

 

Is this true, IQfeed provides 30 days tick data now? I thought it is only 7 days.

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I havent used IQfeed beyond a trial a few years ago. I got that number form their website. I would not be surprised if there where if's and but's for some of the less common instruments.

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Looking for a budget (real time) data feed for multicharts that will give me a solid clean feed, I am trading the S&P futures and currencies :2c:

 

Below is a list of compatible data feeds for multicharts.

http://www.tssupport.com/multicharts/datamanagement/#datasource

 

What would you recommend and why between the budget data feeds like Esignal, Quote.com, Tradestation 8, IQ Feed.

 

 

Having done some research http://forum.tssupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=5911 I would definitely recommend IQ feed.

 

Regards

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Here's an IQfeed 10 point range bar chart (calculates on ticks). The data for the bars goes back 30 days but you can see some volume info gets lost. IMHO IQfeed seems great for the price.

 

** This is a Ninja chart BTW

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Here's an IQfeed 6 point range bar chart (calculates on ticks). The data for the bars goes back 30 days but you can see some volume info gets lost. IMHO IQfeed seems great for the price.

 

** This is a Ninja chart BTW

 

Looks good to me, volume info seems to be related that this contract did not have any real volume at that time.

 

Thanks.

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Massive thank you to everyone that has contributed so far.

 

Looking through the symbol list it says that IQs FX is through FXCM, can anyone clarify how this works? will I be able to use FX on Multicharts or will I have to use FXCM for analysis?

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To TheHaul:

 

Gday mate i am signing up to iqfeed and there is a referral section

 

"Referral Information

 

If referred by someone, please tell us their name and phone number (or email):"

 

Let me know if you'd like to be referred.

 

"To be able to send PMs your post count must be 5 or greater.

 

You currently have 3 posts and you can send PMs to following users only:

Soultrader, mediacougar, tlsupport, Labcast, MrPaul, feb2865, torero, TinGull, OAC, stanlyd, MC.."

 

If you would like to be referred please pm me.

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I'm on a MultiCharts trial and would like to check it out with the Zen-Fire data feed, which I already receive. Since I'm not yet a MC customer, I can't seem to get the ZF data feed file from the support forum. Can anyone share? Thanks.

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The MC version is 4.0.

 

I suggest that you get the latest beta. The latest beta has same improvements over earlier releases of MC with regards to Zenfire data feed.

 

If you however want to stick to your version, PM me with the link to the file you want and give me your e-mail. I will download the file and send it to you.

 

Regards

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I signed up with IQFeed recently. Historical data is 30 days after market hours and 7 days during market hours. Found out today that they don't have servers in Europe for Eurex which might cause the 1 second lag I experience (compared to Zen-Fire), which is pretty bad. I don't know whether the 1 second lag is really due to the latency but it makes sense. I will investigate this tomorrow...

 

So far the only data feeds I can recommend are TT and Zen-Fire.

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