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  • #1
  • First Post: Jul 7, 2009 11:59am Jul 7, 2009 11:59am
Hi everybody, I'm busy in my lab (bedroom) working on my trading system and
first of all: I'm finished with MetaTrader for EA's and if you take Forex seriously I'd advise you to dump it aswell.

I'm looking for a live price feed (preferably free) which I can use to monitor the market (something using the SOAP protocol would be perfect).

It doesn't need to be very accurate tick data, just like 2-3 per minute should be fine.

This is very frustrating because my perl system is very good. I "trained" it on data from Jan-June and in a forward test on July's data it made 530 pips (I wish I was as good a trader )
  • #2
  • Jul 7, 2009 12:37pm Jul 7, 2009 12:37pm
Can't get your perl script to run off of a metatrader DDE?
  • #3
  • Jul 7, 2009 5:10pm Jul 7, 2009 5:10pm
Hey FrinkFX,

I can do PERL / PHP programming. I did something similar to what you're asking on one of our websites - www.indianstockdata.com

Pls lemme know what you like to do. I think I can help you on this.

Cheers
Manoj
  • #4
  • Jul 7, 2009 6:03pm Jul 7, 2009 6:03pm
Quoting findmanu
Hey FrinkFX,

I can do PERL / PHP programming. I did something similar to what you're asking on one of our websites - www.indianstockdata.com

Pls lemme know what you like to do. I think I can help you on this.

Cheers
Manoj
eh I already said what I'd like:
Quote
I'm looking for a live price feed (preferably free) which I can use to monitor the market (something using the SOAP protocol would be perfect).

I already found a site (not gonna mention which) where I can download the historical data for free (csv export) but it's not really feasable cause there would be a delay of a few seconds between requesting the download and putting the csv data into my database, also they may block my I.P if I keep downloading every minute.

So yeah, again to be clear I need a live price feed (preferably free) which I can use to monitor the market (something using the SOAP protocol would be perfect).
  • #5
  • Jul 7, 2009 6:07pm Jul 7, 2009 6:07pm
If you're looking for sthg free, its so simple to transfer data directly from ur MT4... there is an easy 1-2-3 kinda steps on MT4 platform

 

  1. Use file function to write it to a CSV file
  2. Use FTP feature to upload to ur website
  3. Process data or display charts as u like


Pretty simple stuff

  • #6
  • Jul 7, 2009 6:51pm Jul 7, 2009 6:51pm
Quoting findmanu
If you're looking for sthg free, its so simple to transfer data directly from ur MT4... there is an easy 1-2-3 kinda steps on MT4 platform

 

  1. Use file function to write it to a CSV file
  2. Use FTP feature to upload to ur website
  3. Process data or display charts as u like


Pretty simple stuff

I don't think you're listening. First of all who said I have a website?
I also said I'm finished with MT4 and even if I wasn't it would be very troublesome to do your 1-2-3 steps every minute...

Why don't you read before you start typing
  • #7
  • Last Post: Jul 11, 2009 6:49am Jul 11, 2009 6:49am
Quoting FrinkFX
I don't think you're listening. First of all who said I have a website?
I also said I'm finished with MT4 and even if I wasn't it would be very troublesome to do your 1-2-3 steps every minute...

Why don't you read before you start typing
* You can easily *append* to an existing csv file on every new arriving bar
* You can write it directly into a MySQL DB from metatrader (there is free libmysql sample code out there on the relevant forums)
* The 1-2-3 steps can programmed, thats the reason computers were invented in the first place, so you dont have to do it manually every minute.
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