Data Providers

While each Trading Blox™ package includes ten years of sample stock, futures, and forex data (courtesy of CSI, see below), Trading Blox™ does not provide data for historical testing or order generation purposes. Users of Trading Blox™ must purchase their data from a data provider to research trading system performance and/or generate orders.

Free Historical Sample data for stocks, futures, and forex.

Here are some of the providers that have data that is compatible with the Trading Blox™ engine:
 

CSI – Preferred End of Day Data Vendor

Provides Stock, Futures, and Forex data. Trading Blox will read the data files created by CSI without translation, so the process of updating data on a daily basis becomes a one button, or automated task. In addition, CSI provides the delivery month for futures, and the unadjusted close for stocks and futures. The unadjusted close is especially important for backtesting split and dividend adjusted stock data.

If you order from CSI please be sure to inform them that you are a Trading Blox™ customer. Thanks for the support.

C.S.I. Data
200 West Palmetto Park Rd. Suite 200
Boca Raton , FL 33432

(800) 274-4727

Web Site: www.csidata.com

Instructions on how to connect your CSI data to Trading Blox.
 

Instructions on how to connect Worden data to Trading Blox

Preferred Intraday Data Provider eSignal and QCollector from Tradeworks Software. A nice automated solution.

Export to text available using Bloomberg. Not an automated solution.

Formats

Trading Blox™ supports the MetaStock format as well as ASCII text (Excel .CSV files as well). Some of the data vendors our customers use successfully are CSI, Worden, eSignal, Metastock, Pinnacle, Bloomberg, and many other country specific data providers.