HotSpot & eSignal

Good day, all.
Following a couple of year's spreadbetting, and 6 months FX research and back/demo testing, I've decided to 'go live' with exclusively FX trading. The broker I've chosen Is HotSpot, and I'm considering combining them with eSignal for charting purposes etc. I read some older threads/reviews in this forum re eSignal, and noticed they were not too good, and was wondering if anyone had more recent experiences with eSignal, either on their own, or in conjunction with HotSpot? I was considering MetaQuote, but all the kerfuffle re the dodgy 'plug-ins' put me right off!
Thanks in advance for any help(first post!).

Hi, i am an eSignal customer, and i have no complaints. I have read many threads (on another board) that futures and stock quotes are slow, but i dont have a problem with FX quotes. HotspotFXr data will cost an additional $20, so all in all eSignal + Fx data + Hotspot data will cost ~$200 per month. If you only need it for FX charting, i think thats pretty expensive.

I agree, but I seem to be going around in circles with this one. What's the best charting feed to run alongside HotSpot?

The best software is a subjective matter.

However, I've used eSignal for years and have no complaints. If you do chose eSignal, you can select the brokers feed you wish to chart, including Hotspot. Hotspot for some reason though is the only broker that charges a fee for it, I think it's about $20 extra a month.

Thanks to you both.

Unless you need charting for some kind of special program or proprietary plug-in, I really don't see the point of paying anything for charting.

I use www.fxpro.com MT4 demo for my charts, and another platform to trade on. The prices on the charts are very close to what my trading platform feed shows. Best of all, they have every currency pair I'll ever need, and it's free with no time limit.

Again, really don't understand why you would want to pay for charting with all the free stuff out there that does the trick just fine. The MT 4 "plug-in" posts you are reading about are to mess up news traders at news time, but if you're not using MT4 as your trading platform and only using it for charting, who cares?

Hope that helps...

Thanks for that. Do you trade through FXPro at all?

No, not at all; just use the MT4 demo for charts. They look like a classic bucket shop to me...

NT is free. Gain data is free. I use eSignal for other than fx, but it does cost a lot. It has a good scripting language. So does NT. The NT charts are better than MT4, but MT has the EA ability. So many choices, so little time. Oink, Oink Ken. ;-)

I think that's a major problem for newb's. The whole broker/charting subject is so seemingly complex that you feel like your going around in circles.