After going through the reviews and discussions on this site, it seems to me that both charting packages are excellent. Can the experts here help me decide? I currently use eSignal but it is too primitive. I tried TradeStation 2000i but I found it too buggy. I have used MetaStock EOD in the past, but I heard that the real-time version is not very resource efficient. Good programming language support is necessary. The ability to control fibonacci drawing tools programmatically would be a plus. I do not need fancy backtesting tools. Thanks in advance.
If you could afford eSignal, then you should afford paying for Tradestation.8 too, most advanced charting and powerful proprietary language
TradeStation is not a lot more expensive ($199/month + exch), but I am not too sure about its stability. I really rather use something with less features but less bugs. I cannot afford CQG/Net at this point.