Dow And S+p Cash Indexes

[ANDRE17]

Hi . I use scottrade, quote.com and Prophet.com and find there are gaps in the data that need backfills. Can someone recommend a cheap source of live data for these markets please. Im only interested in the cash prices not so much futures and not individual shares. thank you

 

[DIN]

hi there, do you have to have an account with scott trade to get the streaming charts? I think they may have changed its recently as previously you only had to register with them.

also, what are back fills? I thought scott was great for a freebie but defo a second or two delay on the actual future price. I will let you know if I find a good cheap feed. thinking of tiasling the yahoo one as I don't need a massive charting package or data feed.

cheers

D

 

[ANDRE17]

hi there, do you have to have an account with scott trade to get the streaming charts? I think they may have changed its recently as previously you only had to register with them.

also, what are back fills? I thought scott was great for a freebie but defo a second or two delay on the actual future price. I will let you know if I find a good cheap feed. thinking of tiasling the yahoo one as I don't need a massive charting package or data feed.

cheers

D

I opened an account free with them by registering only but its not too reliable. Backfills are -- when data is missing you subscribe to another feed provider and you use that one to hopefully fill the missing gaps -- alot of this US data seems to have gaps ! dont know why . Dont think Yahoo is live but I may be wrong-- or you have to refresh all the time

 

[DIN]

no, there is a subscription service that that you pay $10 oa month for that provides streaming quotes.

 

[roguetrader]

Gaps in US data

I . Backfills are -- when data is missing you subscribe to another feed provider and you use that one to hopefully fill the missing gaps -- alot of this US data seems to have gaps ! dont know why .

Not sure here what you mean when you say a lot of US data seems to have gaps. I haven't experienced any noticeble gaps in US data, could you give me an example of the sort of thing you're talking about.

 

[ANDRE17]

Not sure here what you mean when you say a lot of US data seems to have gaps. I haven't experienced any noticeble gaps in US data, could you give me an example of the sort of thing you're talking about.

hi- e.g when you look at a 5 min chart or 1 min on quote.com for the dow live price there are gaps in the chart-- not the opening gap where some of the "ticks" are missing for several minutes-- same with quotetracker--- i use scottrade and prophet.net as backfill but often the chart has missing data so use backfill which usually works and completes the chart but not always !!! i

 

[roguetrader]

Ok Andre understand what you're saying, i used to get problems like that when I had a dial up connection, in that case it was too much information, not enough bandwidth., in those instances quotes might be slightly delayed or the odd bar might be dropped on a chart if I was running too many charts. Very rarely have problems with decent connection.