Esignal or Realtick

[Chagi]

If you are looking for charting and data, I would strongly suggest considering QuoteTracker + a third party feed (such as IQFeed).

I've been using the two products together for roughly a month now, and have only minor complaints. One is that QuoteTracker does not (yet) have integrated historical daily charting for longer time periods (the current integration just uses web charts from Prophet and BigCharts). IQFeed also seems to have some glitches with their backfill at time, i.e. backfill is sometimes spotty late at night.

Anyways, minor complaints aside, the bang for the buck of using these products together is exceptional, you can be looking at equities streaming + very good charting for $40-$50 month.

 

[Catoosa]

RealTick has worked great for me for years.

 

[libertad]

For retail:

Medved plus IB

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For leverage...good rates...executions NASDAQ

GENESIS
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Medved: Excellent Charts...People...Awesome !!!!

Works with a number of vendors.......

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[OptionScreen]

Quote from watchdaride:

if you want to learn how make your own indicators (efs) or a mechanical trading system stay away from esignal. They have no training or support on their efs programing . We waited years for efs2 which is suppose to be for the non programmers and it was released with no training or support. Same BS . Its 2005 you think by now they would come up with an easier system. Their clients are traders not programmers.. I cant say anything about the other software but that is my experience with esignal.

Very well explained. All eSignal so-called advance charting comes
with no analytical tools. Esignal is nothing more than just a data feed.

Tradestation with 3rd party data as backup is the best solution
to go

 

[Apex Capital]

I gave E-Signal a shot a few years back and for some unknown reason that E-Signal techs were unable to troubleshoot, I was unable to obtain quotes in the SPX and ES for more than 5-6 minutes before the feed stopped updating . . . and all of this happened even though I am incredibly close to their corporate headquarters and server farm.

In any event, I am currently using RealTick.
It comes with a host of technical analysis tools and has some incredibly quick NYSE executions should you use it to trade with as well.

 

[mksummny]

realtick now for 5 + years, has not been the worst, but certainly had times when i thought of switching. Now its working fine, but it did get buggy quite a few times last year.
great order entry, great hot keys, great interface
slow data once and awhile (1 time a month maybe)
great routes

 

[Boy Plunger]

definitely Realtick. I have been a customer for over 5 years and aside the fiasco they had last year it has been a pleasure. Lately, the platform is working very well for me. I used Esignal in the late 90's and found the people to be less than capable along with limiting software factors too great to list. Realtick support has mixed reviews but i have been fortunate to have every problem fixed except for 2 that took forever (years) to fix; volume for weekly and monthly charts would spike 3-10 fold at mid day. I almost had stuart and margwen whacked.

 

[JMartinez]

Realtick still top dog IMO. I think I have litterally tried every software on the street and nobody has pulled their head out yet. Kind of sad IMO LOL. I may just start designing software soon

 

[OptionScreen]

Quote from JMartinez:

Realtick still top dog IMO. I think I have litterally tried every software on the street and nobody has pulled their head out yet. Kind of sad IMO LOL. I may just start designing software soon

What kind of dog, male or female?

Realtick not recommended.
Tradestation Rocks

 

[MacroEvent]

Realtick users --- what is the NYSE TICK market breadth indicator "refresh" rate with Realtick {6 seconds with Esignal --- every 6 seconds the TICK refreshes with the new value as computed}?

could you time that for me and let me know --- trying to see what the reality is compared to what the Realtick sales people say it is --- thanks!