[zentrader]

Hi everyone,

I recently had to step away from trading for the last 4 months. I wasnt able to continue due to the cost of charting and other trading expenses. I know ninja trader has charting for 50 bucks a month but i dont know where u could get a cheap data feed.I would love to be able to get back in the game but cant afford 150 bucks a month for the charts. Does anyone know a cheap start up for charts. I would open a tradestation account but dont have the capital right now. I mainly want to get back to testing my ideas and sim trading.

cheers
zentrader

[Soultrader]

How about Sierra charts? I find their platform inferior but the price is extremely cheap. You should look into it.

[timokrates]

Isn't the data feed included if you use Ninjatrader with the typical brokers.

Zen-Data for Zentrader

[mister ed]

Are you trading futures? Open ECry includes data/charting in their platform - costs nothing for access to their platform.

[darthtrader]

Ninja only costs money if you want to trade real money with the chart trader/super DOM. Its free for charting/backtesting/sim.
You could try that with opentick. That would essentially be free but you get what you pay for data quality wise with them. DTN iq you can get for 55 a month if you just stick with spy/qqqq, 75 or so if you want cbot emini data.

[Sparrow]

CBOT e-mini data is no longer free, that offer ran out last month but opentick is still very cheap compared to other data services.

[brownsfan019]

Originally Posted by mister ed »

Are you trading futures? Open ECry includes data/charting in their platform - costs nothing for access to their platform.

BINGO!

Open a small account at OEC and charting with all the data you could possibly want is FREE to customers. Now, I am guessing that they will want to see some sort of trading at some point, but even if not I believe it's $25/mo.

I think you'll be hard pressed to beat that.

And to top it off, it's good stuff! Even though free, better than what I was previously paying $500/mo for...

Send me a PM with any specific questions on OEC if you'd like.

http://www.openecry.com/

[brownsfan019]

Originally Posted by darthtrader »

DTN iq you can get for 55 a month if you just stick with spy/qqqq, 75 or so if you want cbot emini data.

I had a very bad experience with DTN when plugging their data in MultiCharts. Could be an isolated incident, but just an FYI.