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Data Provider is another important concept in vMAX Trader™ so let's spend a little bit of time understanding what it is. Luckily, like everything else in vMAX, it is pretty easy.Our company doesn't supply delayed or real-time data for any security type. Instead we integrated access to many existing services directly into vMAX Trader. We call those services Data Providers. So whether you're configuring a time frame for a stock or index or future contract or FOREX currency pair you have to specify which data provider you want to use. vMAX Trader comes pre-configured with default data providers for all supported securities. In many cases default settings are exactly what you need, in other cases you may want to adjust them.An image on a "Symbol look-up" button always indicates which data provider is currently used for a time frame. In this case it's Yahoo Finance which is a default data provider. Supported Data Providers by Access Types vMAX Trader supports both free and commercial Internet-based and file-based data sources.Free/ Subscriber Data SourcesData providerSecuritiesTime framesYahoo Finance stocks, indices Daily, Weekly, Monthly MSN Money stocks, indices Daily, Weekly, Monthly VolumeEDGEstocks, indices Daily, Weekly, Monthly Data providerSecuritiesTime frameseSignalstocks, indices, futures, FOREX Intraday, Daily, Weekly, MonthlyLiveCharts stocks, indices, futuresIntraday, Daily, Weekly, Monthly
Data Provider is another important concept in vMAX Trader™ so let's spend a little bit of time understanding what it is. Luckily, like everything else in vMAX, it is pretty easy.
Our company doesn't supply delayed or real-time data for any security type. Instead we integrated access to many existing services directly into vMAX Trader. We call those services Data Providers. So whether you're configuring a time frame for a stock or index or future contract or FOREX currency pair you have to specify which data provider you want to use. vMAX Trader comes pre-configured with default data providers for all supported securities. In many cases default settings are exactly what you need, in other cases you may want to adjust them.
An image on a "Symbol look-up" button always indicates which data provider is currently used for a time frame. In this case it's Yahoo Finance which is a default data provider.
vMAX Trader supports both free and commercial Internet-based and file-based data sources.
If you have an account with brokers like Interactive Brokers, Ameritrade, optionsXpress, TD Waterhouse, CyberTrader and many others then you might want to try to use Medved QuoteTracker in conjunction with vMAX Trader to get real-time intraday quotes.
Supported Data Providers by Security Type
Yahoo Finance (free)MSN Money (free)eSignal (fee-based)Quote.COM LiveCharts (fee-based)Medved QuoteTracker (free or fee-based) CSV file
A default Data Provider for a certain Security Type and a Time Frame can be set up in "Program Options" dialog accessible from "Tools" menu.
