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

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Chuck Thompson - President of eSignal

"We are working on that and many other new exciting features for 2008.

Lots of improvements on EFS and integrated trading, new partners like TT, multi-threading, 64 bit support, improved trading from the charts, etc. It will be a busy year for eSignal releases. We have greatly expanded the engineering and QA staff for the desktop groups.
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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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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
 
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We are working on that and many other new exciting features for 2008. Lots of improvements on EFS and integrated trading, new partners like TT, multi-threading, 64 bit support, improved trading from the charts, etc. It will be a busy year for eSignal releases. We have greatly expanded the engineering and QA staff for the desktop groups.

Chuck
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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

Originally posted by ScottJ


Before the end of 2007, Tick data will be expanded from 10 days to 2 years, and intraday bar data will be extended from 120 days to over 10 years (for most US issues). This new data will first be released to QCharts users as part of the transition to the eSignal network and then it will be made available to eSignal users either by year-end as well or shortly into 08.
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Sounds great doesnt it? In the meantime there is more news. I expect them to implement the extended history sometime next year.

Originally posted by ScottJ
Hi all,

Unfortunately, we've had another delay in deploying the new extended tick history systems. We need to first roll-out a new version of the exisiting tick servers and that won't be completed until end of Feb. In late March, we should be able to start the process and begin to give QCharts users access to a subset of the data (US equities) that will eventually be supported.

In Q2/Q3, we should make enough progress to release more data types and for additional products (like eSignal).
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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
 
Quote from et123:

Quote from Chuck_T:

We are working on that and many other new exciting features for 2008. Lots of improvements on EFS and integrated trading, new partners like TT, multi-threading, 64 bit support, improved trading from the charts, etc. It will be a busy year for eSignal releases. We have greatly expanded the engineering and QA staff for the desktop groups.

Chuck
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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
 
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