Jay, every time I open esignal, I have my template setup to download 4 days of tick data. My EFS scripts need this data to function. If this data was stored on my hard drive, it would put less demand on the esignal servers, not more. I reboot on the weekend and I lose all that tick data I have already downloaded. i then have to retrieve it again off the server. I'm no programmer, but it's kind of a dumb approach if your trying to reduce server demands. Maybe you should have a user pays system where if you want a year of historical tick data you pay $3 bucks or something. This would prevent overuse. Runningbear.
How about cheaper access to an API that lets you read ticks and historical data? Isn't your service like $200+ for this stuff on top of data fees already?
Question for Jay/eSignal... Did you get the QCharts "breadthalizer" symbols into eSignal 10.4? If not, what's the estimated time frame now?
Yes access to the api should be free given that I'm already paying for the data and symbol limits are in place.
Muller, We don't have any plans of changing prices for those on older software versions. I'm curious, why are you forced to use version 8? Have you tried eSignal 10.4? Hibernation alone dramatically increases performance let alone a multitude of other enhancements since the 8.0 days...
I'm unsure of your exact needs, but have you checked out eSignal QLink? With a free 30-day trial and no upfront costs, it's a great addition to an eSignal subscription. It provides access to tick and historical data via Excel, and streams in live data as needed. Currently, QLink uses DDE, but we are actively exploring / prototyping a new RTD-based version that will allow cell-referencing among other things. For more info, check out this article.
There's a few different business reasons for this, and also it keep things simple. When eSignal was first introduced much of the software at that time required users to maintain local databases (think TS 4.0.) Much of the feedback was that there was a significant time requirement associated with maintaining local db's, and users desired a much simpler way to get charts. Even though software generally speaking has come a long ways since those days, there's still an amount of work overhead for end users that are on a software model that uses local data. There's no denying that there's advantages with this model, I'm just simply pointing out the other side of that picture. We are in process of a pretty major reworking of eSignal, and while an "off-line" mode is something we'd like to do at some point in the future, we want to make sure we get a rock-solid release out the door. Only then, will we look to expand in this area. Thanks for the feedback, RL.
Depends on your needs really... We start as low as $24.95 http://www.esignal.com/esignal/pricing.aspx