Hey, If you don't require a backfill, and you know which symbols you need the data for, you can probably get away with using the free Think of Swim Desktop DDE method. It requires you have a copy of Amibroker open capturing data into your real-time symbol list. There's information on how to setup ToS in the files section, and if you search this forum.
Regards, Russ --- In [email protected], "bingk66" <bing.k...@...> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am looking for a intra day data supplier for US stocks. Basically my > requirements are as follows. > > 1) I am looking for snapshot data for these stocks at regular intervals (say > 30mins). In between those intervals, I am not interested in any sort of > pricing whatsoever. > 2) The pricing obtained at those intervals need not be very accurate. > 3) The key requirement for me is that at those predefined intervals, I would > like to collect the snapshot pricing for a large number of stocks. The code > will read from a csv file which contains a large number of tickers and will > loop through each ticker collecting its snapshot price. It is possible that > the csv file can contain up to 200 tickers, so the data supplier will need to > be able to provide timely request for snaphot data for these large number of > tickers in a short space of time. > > I understand that esignal is very good, and could probably do the job. > However, I understand that esignal will backfill the data, which is probably > a good thing, but it is not something that I require, as I am really only > looking for snapshot data at specified times and nothing else. Any > suggestions ?? >
