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Real-Time Data Feed For MarketWarrior

We selected Barchart.com to work with MarketWarrior 4.6 because Barchart.com offer one of the best values of any real-time data service. I have been subscribing to data services for almost 20 years so let me take a moment and explain why Barchart.com is a good value. First, the base subscription price for Barchart.com is only $39 + exchange fees which includes the ability to have third party software access the data. Other real-time data services that offer this type of low starting price lock the data into their web site display, and do not allow any third party access. When third party access is made available it requires a substantial additional fee. Barchart.com is the only real-time data service to combined a low starting price and third party access. Second, Barchart.com has a good selection of data packages to help a trader subscribe to what they want and keep their data costs low. For example, look at the image from the Barchart.com sign-up page below. They have a $10/mo data package for CBOT Mini contracts while other data services require you to subscribe to the full CBOT data package to get the mini contracts. Also notice Barchart.com has created a data package of "1 Minute Snapshot" for CBOT futures contracts for only $15/mo. Third, when you subscribe to a Barchart.com real-time subscription the other markets are provided to you on a 15-20 minute delayed bases. Other data services make you pay extra to receive delayed data from additional markets. Fourth, the real-time subscriber can access the Barchart.com daily, weekly and monthly data which includes their history of perpetual continuous futures contracts and perpetual nearest futures contracts. Traditionally data services consider perpetual futures to be a premium item and charge extra for accessing this type of data. You can download the MarketWarrior 4.6 free trial here and you can signup for real-time data from Barchart.com here.







To use real-time data with eSignal you must have a subscription to either "eSignal Premier" or "eSignal Premier Plus". Below are two links, first to the main eSignal web page and second to the eSignal sign up page.

eSignal Main Web Page
eSignal Signup Web Page

Below is a picture of the recent prices for eSignal real-time data. These prices may change without notice.

Off-Line Futures Data For MarketWarrior

If you want to use off-line futures data with MarketWarrior you will need a data source. The two best futures data sources in the US are Pinnacle Data and CSI. Before you subscribe to these data services you should ask if they support the futures symbols that you are interested in trading. There are currently two symbols for most futures, a pit traded symbol and an electronic traded symbol. Make sure you symbols are supported.
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Click here to go to the Pinnacle Data web site.

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Click Here to go to the CSI web site.



You can use the MarketWarrior Data Downloader to download futures data from Yahoo Finance, but Yahoo Finance only hold today's quote for futures data. This means futures data has no historical data and files must be built one day ay a time.

Off-Line Stock Data For MarketWarrior

If you are interested in US stocks I would recommend using the MarketWarrior Data Downloader which can download historical data and current quotes from Yahoo Finance.




Another good data source for stock data is Worden Brothers TC2000. MarketWarrior has an OLE link into the TC2000 program which allows for easy use of this program.
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Click Here to Open The Worden Brothers TC2007