Runningbear, I PM'd you, send me your telephone number, I will have someone from our 20+ man support team walk you through it.
A good beta tester is expensive. They can get you suckers to find all the bugs and YOU pay them for the privilege. smart guys at Esignal
Taking it slowly at this point, just replicating my intraday workspace. On days like Friday I'm out of the market completely based on the first hour's action or so, which is the only time I have to work on other things. I have yet to explore the code environment, looking around in the meantime for indicator code that may have similar chunks to stuff I use now so I can learn by example. I have a feeling, given the nature of the setup you posted, that migrating will be very challenging for you. Just my opinion, but the time may not be justified unless you have an alternate low stress system (your swing/position trading for instance) that you can afford to experiment with during market hours.
Thanks so very much for your thoughtful advice. I think this is like my first wife. I would be so much better off now if I had just slapped her around a bit and kept her. So I save 50 bucks a month? I value my time based on my former consulting practice at 200 bucks an hour. So I think I'll just keep ESignal and slap the bitch around.
By all means, slap the bitch around if you can. eSignal ultimately turns out to be a solid product. I view it as an investment, and a lifetime NT license is what you'd pay for 10 months of eSignal. I've been using eSignal since... 2003 I think, with a set of exchange add-ons, always feeling that while I loved aspects of its charting I was getting a little fleeced. Kinetick might cost the same in the end as I still need the Chicago exchanges, put/call data, exchange internals, breadth indices. Regardless, having to rewrite my scripts anyway and seeing how they're breaking now, it's convinced me I need to diversify.
Earlier this month EasySignal said that 11.1 would be released in late February, which is in a few short days. Today they wrote "11.1 will be available to the public in a few short weeks."
If Esignal works off short weeks, maybe their weeks only have 2 days in them instead on 7 like our normal weeks.
That's it! BTW, your thread here: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=215485 looks to be an excellent resource for folks wanting to make the switch. Thanks to you and your respondents for that dialogue. The latest on EasySignal's forum is that version 11.4 should be out in the summer. They did not say of what year.