[Macros132]

Looking for a budget (real time) data feed for multicharts that will give me a solid clean feed, I am trading the S&P futures and currencies

Below is a list of compatible data feeds for multicharts.
http://www.tssupport.com/multicharts...nt/#datasource

What would you recommend and why between the budget data feeds like Esignal, Quote.com, Tradestation 8, IQ Feed.

[trader273]

Tradestation and Esignal are absolutely dreadful, especially for the price. IQ feed isnt bad, but not exactly on budget for starting out. I'd look at a broker feed, which should be free for a live account or a very small fee for demo accounts. I recommend OEC, they have every bit of data you could ever want. But do your own DD.

I also heard IQ was not bad at all. I wonder when TSS will integrate MC with TT. Anyone experienced with Interactive Brokers' feed?

AGN, TransAct, Infinity (this is the same data feed but branded with different IB's names) data feeds not recommended for serious traders beacause:

1. they fail to backfill data from time to time (see MC forum at TSS) - yesterday they failed to backfill. See the screenshot.
2. they e.g. plot Saturday sessions when there are no sessions on this day (see MC forum at TSS); or they plot bad ticks on each Eurex instruments on 00:00:01, and similar annoying things that you will need to live with.
Summary: If you are a budget trader and you want free data, like I do, consider going for any of the above.

Zen-Fire, good and accurate data, but no backfill with MC at all (see MC forum at TSS). Summary: Whether you want free data or are unexperienced traded, Zen-Fire as a data feed for your MC is not for you cause it NEVER backfills data.

Regards

[BlowFish]

Zenfire is live data feed and order execution engine. It has never offered historical data regardless of charting software. I think people might get confused as if you use Ninja they record historical Zenfire data on their servers and provide that as a service to their customers.

Edit - currencies might be a problem. I use IB for spot FX and despite them drawing criticism for aggregating ticks they are actually pretty good for FX though they do not save historical tick volume for some reason. IB's data is solid and clean you just wont get every tick. This may or may not be acceptable to you. IB's data has been discussed at length elsewhere at Traders Laboratory.

[thehaul]

I second what Tresor says... get a feed that allows enough historical, without hassles, to do your research. Those don't! I'm using IQfeed now.

[BlowFish]

What is 'enough' varies person to person. IQfeed is a good value feed but last I looked they only provide 30 days of tick history. If all you need is 1 minute bars of course that's not a problem. maybe you don't need history at all (I have maintained my own data for the longest time though multicharts does trash it now and then) Horses for courses and all that. Mind you the OP made no mention of historical data but that is definitely one of the (numerous) things to consider.

Does IQfeed provide FX? I presume the OP is talking about spot FX, maybe some clarification on that and historical data requirements?

[Macros132]

Sorry should have clarified yes i am after historical data.

thehaul: are you satisfied with the feed that IQ provides?