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> yes, a lot of users are generally interested in alternatives to pricey
> eSignal. Unfortunately it appears that TJ himself is not interested
> much in alternatives. Otherwise I simply do not understand why he
> always stayed suspiciously quiet when the bug was mentioned here on
> this list and does not fix it.
I am getting sick of such accusations. If I were not interested in alternatives
how come that there are so many of them implemented http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_quotes.html ?
How come that I deliver all plugins for free (except for QCharts but that's different story)
- hiding you from huge costs involved in developing such plugins.
Go login onto IQFeed message board and see how many critical bugs were reported
by VARIOUS developers.
I have spent months trying to make sense out of IQFeed buggy feed.
I have spent less than a 1/4 of that time to implement eSignal.
This speaks for itself.
It is not my fault or my "lack of interest". It is IQFeed fault that their feed is buggy and incomplete
(how many years we have asked for seconds resolution in the feed and pre/afterhours backfill).
Yes their released new version recently and again they promise that they fixed problems
now. I will check that, but I heard this promise lots of times already and in previous
years they simply failed to deliver.
AmiBroker has OPEN AND FREE API (opposite to most data vendors APIs)
DTN/IQFeed is free to write their own plugin for AmiBroker if they think their feed is
next best thing since sliced bread.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "global_investor" <independent_opinion@xxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 2:37 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Help with latest IQFeed Client
> You can already run multiple instances of Amibroker with IQFeed as
> data source. At present I use one instance of Amibroker with the
> IQFeed plugin and timeframe set to daily. I use this instance to
> watch a large number of symbols and their daily charts, in order to
> see the big picture updated in realtime. On another monitor I run a
> second instance of Amibroker with an intraday database. With this
> second Amibroker instance I'm watching a much smaller set of
> symbols, primarily only the intraday movements of the symbols I really
> trade or which are otherwise of special interest to me.
>
> Of these two Amibroker instances, the instance with daily charts (but
> updated in realtime) is much more important to me. I have to use
> the old outdated IQFeed plugin, given that the latest one does not
> work correctly in daily mode.
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>> I would also like to see an alternative to e-Signal. DTN.IQ is
>> tempting.
>
> yes, a lot of users are generally interested in alternatives to pricey
> eSignal. Unfortunately it appears that TJ himself is not interested
> much in alternatives. Otherwise I simply do not understand why he
> always stayed suspiciously quiet when the bug was mentioned here on
> this list and does not fix it. Interestingly, in May another user
> described the same bug in the Amibroker bug database. He paraphrased
> it succinctly as "data mixup". While other problems may be caused
> by shortcomings of the IQFeed API/client connector, the mixup issue is
> clearly a bug in the IQFeed plugin.
>
> http://www.amibroker.com/feedback/view_bug.php?bug_id=141
>
> my old description here on this list:
> http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/amibroker/message/95626
> http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/amibroker/message/92835
>
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "MarketMonk777" <dlittner@xxx> wrote:
>>
>> If Amibroker will be forthcoming with multi monitor support (either
> running
>> two instances or allowing a window to be placed on each), I would
> also like
>> to see an alternative to e-Signal. DTN.IQ is tempting.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf
>> Of global_investor
>> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 5:36 AM
>> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Help with latest IQFeed Client
>>
>> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > We strongly recommend eSignal as a real-time feed.
>> >
>> > eSignal:
>> >
>> > a) has stable API
>> > b) they warn about ANY change in eSignal a couple of months BEFORE
>> doing changes
>> > and send testing versions including special logins to new
>> servers (if they make changes to the server software)
>> > before going live
>> > c) they have Q&A team that is actually testing their changes against
>> other software
>> > d) they NEVER broke backward compatibility for 4+ years now.
>>
>>
>> Yes, Esignal might be the much better feed, but it is very expensive:
>>
>> For example, Esignal Premier allows just 200 to be watched at a
> time, with
>> the costs per month being $85 plus exchange fees (annual
>> subscription). With another 500 symbols added, the price would rise
>> to $135/month (annual subscription) or $165/month (regular subscripton).
>>
>> But on top of this, European customers also have to pay value added tax
>> which increases the monthly Esignal costs by another ~20%.
>>
>> In contrast, the price of DTN.IQ is only $59/Month plus exchange
> fees (with
>> annual subscription), and 1,300 symbols can be watched at a time.
>>
>>
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