RE: [amibroker] Re: best feed for ASX?, AmiBroker Email List Archive

BourseData was purchased by MDS Financial (ASX:MWS) through the issue of 63 million shares (then valued at $0.135 now $0.05) – the same people that are Cube Financial Group and (back in the late 1990s/early 2000s TradeTech the educator). The original Bourse used to have a DDE capability (I used this back in around 2000 to trade speculative stocks) but a few years later they stopped providing documentation/support on such DDE facilities. I’m not sure if it still has any such capabilities.

Paritech run their own live data system called Pulse, originally developed as CommSec’s live trader platform (Protrader1). I believe Pulse has a DDE capability too:

http://www.paritech.com/support/pulse/features/dde.asp

Live data in Australia is such a cut-throat business due to amount of redundancy and infrastructure required, and the lack of people actually wanting to pay for it. When things go wrong (i.e. the data is running by more than a second late) users start screaming and look elsewhere. That’s why we specialise in end-of-day data – we also like to sleep occasionally too!

Best regards,
Richard Dale.
Norgate Investor Services
- Premium quality Stock, Futures and Foreign Exchange Data for
markets in Australia, Asia, Canada, Europe, UK & USA -
www.premiumdata.net

From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of brian_z111
Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2008 9:14 AM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amibroker] Re: best feed for ASX?

I'm not unhappy with the international majors but I want to canvass
the alternatives - sometimes we just need something simple.

All the good entrepenurial companies seem to go to the corps
eventually:

Huntley bought out by Aspect Equities and now Morningstar.
BourseData ended up at Paritech I think.

brian_z