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Real Time charts, any advice?

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:37 pm
by BARLI
hello traders, i've been using delayed charts, but now considering to use real time charts since i am going to day trade some of the systems i've been testing, can you suggest any real time chart providers ? i know about Futuresource stuff a lot, but would like to find out about other providers.

thank you in advance! :P

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:27 am
by Kiwi
Best deals in the world (imho) for electronic exchanges:

Interactive Brokers (free US if u do $30 commissions) with SierraChart ($8 per month). This doesnt have backfill so use SCMagic if you need backfill (about $10E per month).

Interactive Brokers with Ensign (backfill) for $40 per month (better channel and fib tools, lots of cool day trading stuff).

John

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:01 pm
by BARLI
thanks for your quick response John! i am going to day trade CBOT, CME and Nymex pit traded futures, is it going to be any different then, i mean stuff like exchanges fees applied and so on? please give me also the links so i wouldn't end up findin the wrong web site through google, i'd appreciate that!

sasha

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 9:53 pm
by Kiwi

thank you

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 12:45 am
by BARLI
thanks a lot John, http://www.ensignsoftware.com/help/products.htm looks pretty good to me. i was wondering if you use trading platforms as well? i recently surfed the net and found some of the platforms that let as they say:"enter by one click from the quotes the order", there's one fo esignal http://www.ensignsoftware.com/help/products.htm and another one everyone screams about is X Trader. i think it'd be nice first to play with them and see how they do. if you have any experience with those i'd like your advice!

kiwi,

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:34 am
by Nathan
kiwi,

I am not familiar with the idea of getting real time data and also backfilling it for historical record from two services. with IB and the providers you mentioned, can u create a seamless package? what does maintaining this entail, do you have to dowload seperate historical data every day?

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 3:01 am
by Kiwi
Barli, Yes I use Ninja Trader for order entry.


Seamless ... hmm ... with mytrack you use it for backfill and real time so yes. With IB + Sierramagic ... almost. You only use sierramagic if you havent got all the IB data (maybe your machine was off) so when you start you fill with scmagic and then continue on with the ib feed.

setting it all up

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:33 pm
by BARLI
kiwi, could you expand more on how you set up all of the trading software features for day trading(trading platform, charts etc)for fast and comfort trading? are you hooked up to Interactive Brokers through Ninja trader, these guys have very low commissions, which is very nice :D

thanks in advance!

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:14 pm
by Ghostrider
Reuters is the best data I've seen along with news. Its been a few years since I've been on a desk; Reuters was the norm at that time. Bloomberg is popular with fixed income people.

:P

Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 7:55 am
by Turbowagon
Can anyone recommend a web-based real-time e-mini futures chart offering other than BarchartX. I am using BarchartX currently and I am not really happy with it. Thanks.