LG,
Everything you said is quite true, however there are thousands of TradeStation 2000i users out there, and a large number are or were using Quote.com for their data feed. TradeStation 2000, as far as I am aware, is still available for sale; not to mention there is a lively used trade in the product.
I still prefer Tradestation over WOW, having used both extensively. But personal choice is what life is all about.
I recommended Quote.com personally to many, and fielded questions from dozens and dozens of Tradestation users on how well it (used) to work and what they needed (DynastoreLight) in order to make it function.
So pointing out the options is valid, and I certainly can not recommend Quote.com now. I can't recommend PCQuote either.
It seems that if you want tons of intraday history - as I know you do and I certainly look for myself, the most reliable option - as is the case with many things - is to do it yourself. And that's exactly what TradeStation lets me do. I've currently got 1000 days of intraday history to the 1M time frame resolution. I could set that to 10,000 or more if I wanted to continue to keep more. I trust myself to run my own data centre ;)
Re eSignal, its clunkier to be sure, but substandard? Would depend on a persons needs. Since I'm a price and volume guy, I'm easy to place. Others may not be. But number one for me - I want clean and accurate data, in real time, with no muss and fuss and eSignal more than delivers for me.
Other applications also support eSignal. Ensign for Windows has a lot of power for those that take the time to learn it - 30$ per month on top of eSignal. It can read the historical data from the servers plus also maintain local histories. Advanced Get serves the EWave crowd. Apparently RavenQuote will fairly soon have a tested application available on the eSignal platform. I've not used RavenQuote but visually it does appear very similar to QCharts and might be useful to many QCharts users, only driven with reliable data from eSignal.
Unlike some vendors, they will certainly survive and continue to enhance their offerings, so if the tool is not to someone's liking now, it may well be in the future. The difference in professionalism between the two organizations is astounding.
I need not point out which I consider inferior! |
