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Question concerning scan workshop.

If you sign up for esignal basic as the data feed it says you can view 100 at a time.
Does that mean that scan workshop is limited to the same viewable number meaning you would only be scanning 100 stocks? or can you scan entire list of stocks in Naz and NYSE then have your filters spit out the matches realtime?
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Yes you can scan more than the # of real-time symbols you subscribed. But, that will slow the scannings down due to the fact that you are rotating the symbols.

Understand what you are trying to do first, then find a way to fit it into what's available to you now. e.g. pre-scan symbols the previous trading day to reduce the # of symbols you are going to track the very next day, etc.
 
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how is that free data feed.?
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That's pretty simple ... If you have an MB account you have full access to thier data feed which works perfectly with Neo.
 
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ditto????
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Depends what you trade. They have several months of data on thier servers. Tickquest has about 5 - 7 years of data on thier servers that you can download and use. If you don't find what you need there historic data can be had very cheap on a one time basis ... then back to MB's super fast and clean data feed ... free. A really sweet deal. Also, you can place any type of MB order imaginable right through NTick, even automated.

No interest in either other than being an extemely happy customer with both. YMMV
 
Frank

How has MB been for you.
Ant trading, account, service, downtime issues with them?
Few months back thought they had days when they were down.
 
Reading through the scanworkshop manual.
Is the basic operation of the system simliar to TC2000? Where it scans a list of stocks, in my case all stocks in TC2000, applying user defined criteria to this list and then returns matches?
In comparing the two downside to scanworkshop is the slower updating of stock lists and id symbol limit based on data feed. Whats the use of an id scanner if its symbol dependent upon a data feed subscription. Narrowing down the symbols to watch the night before using eod is no different than using TC2000. I wouldnt consider id nothing more than a watch table for a pre-determined list.
 
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Frank are you primarily with equities futs or both?
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I trade both plus forex. I scalp high volume penny stocks for the first 60 - 90 minutes after open. Then I focus on the eminis and the mini dow ... daytrading. I'm in and out of FX (eur/usd mostly) through out the day but only if my set ups present themselves. All with MB and Neo. I've been with many vendors and brokers including all the "big" ones including IB, TS, eSig, Eturd and others. The Neo/MB combo has them all licked. I'm saving thousands per years on data fees, trade FX on an ECN basis, low RTs and excellent CS from both. I opened a small MB account just to test the waters and was treated just as well then as now having 2 large accounts. YMMV but my experience has been very good. The down time issues that you mentioned must have been before my time. If I added all the DT in all the time I've been with them I'd say it totals less than an hour so I'm talking a couple of minutes every blue moon which is usually squared away by relogging in. There was one time I recall maybe 15 minutes or so. I called in just to check on my positions. They picked up the phone on the second ring and told me my stops and orders where fine and asked if I needed to trade. No biggie. Phone trades are free with MB ... no premium to place a trade with a human. They also have every type of order you'll need plus if you use the integrated MB order interface that's native to MT the possibilities expand even more. Automate, backtest, trade off the chart ... you name it. OK ... NT. Blows eSig and TS out of the water. Stable. So powerful you'll never tap all of it's potential. Very easy on CPU resources but you'll need at least a gig of ram to see what it can really do. 2 gigs is better. 2 gigs cost only $150 so there's no excuse. One thing ... it's go a big ass learning curve for the first couple of weeks but don't let that throw you. Learn on the demo before you trade. Once you learn the basics and then the intermediate it's smooth sailing.

Both mb and neo have free demos. sign up for both and check them out for 30 day or whatever. I have no affiliation other than being extremely pleased with both.
 
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