Hi. I live in Hong Kong. I need data to test my stratey and do analysis. I need to get both EOD & Intraday data all over the world, including index, index futures/options; currency, forex futures/options; commodities futures/options, stock & stock futures/options. For index, I mostly need DJ, S&P500, Nikkei, KOSPI, MSCI Taiwan, Hong Kong HSI/HHI. For currency, Australian, British, Canadian, Japanese, Swiss, Euro. For commodities, gold & crude oil. For stock, Hong Kong & US. It could be Metastock or ASCII format. My Question is: 1) Where can I get historical EOD & intraday data? My criteria are: a) reliable (data contains less/no errors) b) price (as cheap as possible; or free) c) period (abt 5-10 years are enough; If I need to pay, it could be great if I can get unlimited update of historical data [not sure if any data provider offer this service?]) Note: I have MLDownloader. I'm not sure if I can download these data from free sources by this program. Currently I just know how to donwload stock info from Yahoo through MLDownloader. 2) I also need real-time data for day trade. I think I'm going to use Metastock for charting/analysis. Can you recommend me any good Metastock data feed provider? My criteria are: a) reliable (data contains less/no errors) b) stable (supply data smoothly with no delay [for most of the time]) c) price (as cheap as possible, but quality comes first unless it's too expensive) Note: I need real-time data for index & forex & commodities futures/options. I may not need real-time stock data. But if it's cheap, I'm glad to get it too. Thanks a lot.
Can you comment on these 2 providers? Are they good? Good customer service? Accept foreign customers? Reliable? Stable? etc. Thank you!