New Hotspot client-platform

I am having a hard time getting eSignal to tell me exactly what kind of data they give for Hotspot! Has anyone used them to collect data that can tell me if the historical data in 1 minute time has OHLC for both the bid a ask prices?

eSignal provides 10 days of tick-data (all bid/ask quotes), 120 days of intraday bar data (1 minute resolution, bid-based) and daily bars since inception. This is the actual data from the Hotspot retail platform, they have Hotspot FXi data too, but its only accessible for FXi clients.

I think FXTrek is the cheapest of the sources i mentioned (not sure), eSignal is about $180-200/month for FX, CQG is the most expensive (starts with $600 base fee, but many pros like their reliability and speed).

These are all charting services, they provide data-history for charting and realtime quotes. I guess what Hotspot told you, that they sell their data history too, is not meant for realtime charting, but for downloading their history only (for backtesting purposes).

If you want to do automated trading via the api and require historic data, you need the api for the new european client platform (the java/fix api doesnt have history at all). Thats a bit complicated. You will have to sign a NDA beforehand, then they will set up a certification environment for you on a test server, then after you are finnished programming your application you will have to pass an 'UAT' (user acceptability test), then, if you are successful, you can go live. There is an visual c++ example application and rudimentary documentation of the api messages.

If you want to do this, i would try to squeeze out a contact from their tech department, i found it quite hard to get competent answers from their 'normal' support people, apparently they are not trained to deal with api issues and dont really know what they are talking about (apart from the standard answers), but are reluctant/not allowed to give out a direct contact to the tech people.

Weren't Hotspot gonna release MT4 for retail clients this Summer?

I was hopeing I could use the US based Hotspot, but it is must for me to have access to at least recent historical data in order for my program to be making use of technical analyses. Do you know if they allow Java? I've done a little with c++, but I'm better with Java and best at MQL4, but I know they only allow that through other brokers that have a MT4 license, so bummer for that.
Also, do you still have the contact information for their tech department? If you do, please e-mail it to me. Thanks!

I'm pretty sure that is only if you go through another broker that has MT4 and allows you to use their platform to connect to MT4. I believe I read that somewhere on one of the other threads here when I did a search for "Hotspot" and saw an e-mail someone received when inquiring about it.

In addition to what shrike said, you have to also add the HotSpot feed on top of the general feed you already have. It's an extra few bucks a month.