E-Signal or Tradestation?

I've been trading a mini account and I'm looking to get into a good charting package. I have heard good things about both e-signal and tradestation. I'll only be trading Forex- can anyone give me some suggestions?

Thanks!

What broker are you using now? What are you looking for in a charting package that your broker doesn't already have? I got a TS demo and found it to be really non-intuitive....but that's me, I'm sure a million people will disagree with me

My advice: Not esignal. MT4 and Visual trader are free. Ensign charting is very affordable and very good.

I use intellicharts. I am very happy with their chart. They are very affordable and allow you to do alot.

I'll be using FXCM as a broker....

If the choice is between E-signal and TradeStation. I would have to go with TradeStations, simply because I do a lot of programming, systems and indicators. When I translated a few of my systems into e-signals. A 100 line TradeSstation system took 300. I already spend too much time programming. But I would also take Thruline advice and have a look at Ensign. It is an excellent charting package and the last time I checked. It was about $40 a month. You would have to get more information on the data feed though.

i used intellicharts for years and they are great. mess around with tradestation for a while and youll see why they are the best. but they know it.

I am a VT Trader guy A. because I am cheap and it is free and B. It the easiest and most powerful thing to program that I have seen yet.
However I am not real happy with CMSFX right now (see CMS thread)

you know i gotta chime in here

TS is UNMATCHED!

yes... trade station is excellent but if you're already going with fxcm as your broker then you might also consider fibonacci trader which comes with fxcm's data feed. However, if you're planning to do advanced programming then tradestation is the way to go.

I used to use MT3 and MT4 which are great as freebies. But I switched to TradeStation to take advantage of a colleagues proprietary indicators he had written in TS code.

TradeStation is now free if you trade more than 100 round trip mini-lots per month...using their brokerage (which is currently the GAIN platform) and will likely be their own Forex broker soon.

If you're going to use TradeStation... I'd recommend using them as a broker too if you can get the platform free.

If not, there's nothing wrong in particular with MetaTrader4

Spreads with TradeStation are bad. You are better off paying those 100 bucks for the platform and punching the orders in with Oanda. Also, I find the charting very cumbersome, MT4 is way user friendlier and prettier.

I tried TS and didnt like much for anything else than coding your own stuff.