Is It Possible To Feed Ts7 With 3-rd Party Data???

Discussion in 'Data Sets and Feeds' started by tender_andy, Jun 6, 2003.

  1. IS IT POSSIBLE TO FEED TS7 WITH 3-RD PARTY DATA???


    does anyone know anything about such possibilities??


    Andy.
     
  2. FinStat

    FinStat

    hope so. great software...........quotes are poor.

    any ts reps care to address????
     
  3. Splat

    Splat

    Checkout www.tssupport.com

    They are bringing out a new util soon (OwnData). This apparently
    allows you to use 3rd party datawith TS7. They are in beta
    testing which you can sign up for - personally, I am waiting
    for the real thing.

    Regs,

    Splat
     
  4. there is an add-on that for a small fee will allow you to use esignal data with TS...

    you'll have to search the net for it. i don't have the link anymore.
     
  5. AFAIK, the answer for 7 7.1 is no. But if you go to tradestationworld.com and look at:

    http://www.tradestationsupport.com/discussions/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=859&pollresults=1

    You will see there is overwhelming demand for this feature. My story:

    I trade stocks and wanted to try my hand at futures. So I asked TS how I could get some historical data to test my ideas.

    Their answer (a couple of months ago) was I had to first open a futures account in addition to my brokerage account, fund it, pay the exchange fees for whatever data I needed. Then I would be able to get a limited amount of historical data plus:

    TAADAA: I got the real time data for free.

    DS
     
  6. thanks for all who replied.

    seems one should wait for owndata.