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Can't get data for free quote futures

Postby cyrillk » 09 Oct 2011

Hi! Probably, I do smth wrong or just miss smth but I can't get any data for free quote futures. I just have started to use your software and now I try to use multicharts DT to get more information about your program. At the moment I don't have any subscription to realtime data provider so I try to use end-of-day free quotes. It works perfectly for stocks but when I try to add some futures it doesn't work. Would you mind to describe how do it as I cannot find any tutorial for this?

I tried to add custom futures, I tried to add futures manually and to modify preinstalled esignal futures to work with free quotes. It doesnot help for me, unfortunately.

Thanks a lot!

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Re: Can't get data for free quote futures

Postby TJ » 09 Oct 2011

Hi! Probably, I do smth wrong or just miss smth but I can't get any data for free quote futures. I just have started to use your software and now I try to use multicharts DT to get more information about your program. At the moment I don't have any subscription to realtime data provider so I try to use end-of-day free quotes. It works perfectly for stocks but when I try to add some futures it doesn't work. Would you mind to describe how do it as I cannot find any tutorial for this?

I tried to add custom futures, I tried to add futures manually and to modify preinstalled esignal futures to work with free quotes. It doesnot help for me, unfortunately.

Thanks a lot!
can you describe the following:

1. source of free quote
2. the symbol you used

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Re: Can't get data for free quote futures

Postby cyrillk » 10 Oct 2011

I have checked in "data sources" of quote manager and all sources of free quotes are activated (msn, google, yahoo). Last time I tried to add wheat futures as ZW.

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Re: Can't get data for free quote futures

Postby TJ » 10 Oct 2011

I have checked in "data sources" of quote manager and all sources of free quotes are activated (msn, google, yahoo). Last time I tried to add wheat futures as ZW.
As far as I know, these free quotes only provides data for Stocks, Mutual Funds, and Index.

Yahoo has quotes for futures, but only single quote (Last EOD), not list of historical quotes.

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Re: Can't get data for free quote futures

Postby cyrillk » 10 Oct 2011

Thanks. Probably, that is the problem.. Is there are any way to get free futures EOD quotes?

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Re: Can't get data for free quote futures

Postby TJ » 10 Oct 2011

Thanks. Probably, that is the problem.. Is there are any way to get free futures EOD quotes?
There used to be a couple of free websites,
but last time I checked, they are no longer in business.

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Re: Can't get data for free quote futures  [SOLVED]

Postby JoshM » 11 Oct 2011

Is there are any way to get free futures EOD quotes?
Check out Pi-trading, which has free futures EOD data for numerous instruments.

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Re: Can't get data for free quote futures

Postby cyrillk » 11 Oct 2011

Thanks a lot!


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