HELP!! Is there a alternitive to No-Signal? (e-signal)

Discussion in 'Trading Software' started by Nofear777, Nov 27, 2007.

  1. Only multi threading of your main software is of real import... once you have that then everything you have moves to a professional level...

    If you do not implement that, as you have not in the past, then your platform and data feed will stay second tier... solid second tier... but ONLY second tier...


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    #191     Jan 17, 2008
  2. davez

    davez

    Chuck, I gotta agree with Edge about the multi-threading. Until you upgrade the 'old foundation', its no use improving the structure above it.

    But the second priority after that would be implimenting quote sheet formulas (the TradeStation equivalent of RadarScreen). During the 7.xx release series, eSignal was at least attempting to catch up to TradeStation. But is seems with release 8.0 onwards, it was only big clients and futures / options / forex / foreign market traders that mattered to eSignal. We poor US equity traders were left behind (two years ago?) with only primitive real time scanning /trade-condition-alerting tools. eSignal finally following thru with quote list formulas would be a big catch-up to TS, and open a whole new world of eSignal value to US equity traders.

    Dave Z
     
    #192     Jan 17, 2008
  3. Chriz

    Chriz

    Chuck is great at promising stuff. If he would spend as much for software development as for advertising, esignal would be a way better product. Remember when he announced 8.0 for mid April? It was released September IIRC. He also announced 8.1 (which was renamed to 10.0) for June 06 and guess what, it was released August. Not bad uh? Only one month delay. But wait, August 2007. Thats 13 month. :D :D :D

    Sounds great doesnt it? In the meantime there is more news. I expect them to implement the extended history sometime next year.

    Just in case you want the whole story:
    http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65627
    http://forum.esignalcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6795

    My esignal subscription ends next month. Im not willing to pay them for their overpriced crappy software and lame data feed. Ill be using DTN IQ feed then.

    Chris
     
    #193     Jan 17, 2008
  4. burton82

    burton82

    What is the best feed to use for Ninja trader, more specific which would be better patsystems or dtn.
     
    #194     May 7, 2008
  5. davez

    davez

    Chuck, if you are a US equities trader, and you wanted to know something simple like when one of your favorite stocks was within .5% of its 50 day moving average, how would eSignal help you with that?

    As far as I know, you'd have to run the appropriate EFS in a chart which could then give you that alert. But what if you followed the Nasadq 100? Then you'd need 100 EFSs running in 100 charts, which would crash most computers. If multi-threading ever gets worked into the eSignal program design that might help, but how many monitors would it take to view 100 stocks?

    So why isn't quote list formulas (equivalent to TradeStation's RadarScreen) in the list of features you are working on? Then you could wait for this example alert by watching a 3" wide by 10" high quote list in a single monitor. Then with only a few charts open, you could quickly switch to that symbol when the alert triggered.

    It seems the new customers are options, futures and forex traders, for which all the new features for the last two years have been focussed. Which is fine, if at least you'd caught up to TradeStation in developing this one key tool before abandoning development of tools for equity trader.

    Have you given up on quote list formulas completely?

    davez
     
    #195     May 7, 2008