| Data Source |
Price* |
Real-Time |
History |
Symbol List |
Contacts |
| ASCII |
Mostly free. Price depends on data source. |
No |
Tick-by-tick, 1 minute, daily up to 7Gb file size |
No |
N/A |
| Bloomberg |
Contact data vendor |
Yes |
Tick-by-tick up to 50 days, intra-day up to 50 days, dayly up to 20 years |
Yes |
212.318.2000
www.Bloomberg.com |
| eSignal |
$49/month and higher |
Yes |
Tick-by-tick 10 days back, minute bars 60 days back, daily bars 10 years back |
Yes |
800.815.8256
www.eSignal.com |
| Free Quotes |
N/A |
No |
Yes |
No |
Finance.yahoo.com
Moneycentral.msn.com
Quote.com |
| GlobalServer |
Price depends on GlobalServer's data source |
Yes |
Unlimited |
Yes |
954.652.7100
www.TradeStation2000i.com |
| Interactive Brokers |
Free for customers |
Yes |
Second, minute or daily bars 6 month back |
Yes |
877.442.2757
www.InteractiveBrokers.com |
| IQFeed |
$50/month and higher |
Yes |
Tick-by-tick 8 days back, minute bars 120 days back, 1000 daily bars, 500 weekly bars |
No |
402.255.8787
www.IQFeed.net |
| Marketcast |
N/A |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
300.132.999
www.MarketCast.com.au |
| MetaStock |
N/A |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
800.508.9180
www.Equis.com |
| OpenTick |
Free |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
888.673.6842
www.OpenTick.com |
| Patsystems |
Free for customers |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
312.922.7600
www.PATSystems.com |
| Quote.com |
$95/month and higher |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
866.842.5377
www.Quote.com |
| Tenfore |
N/A |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
+44.20.7422.8777
www.Tenfore.com |
| TradeStation 8 |
$99.95 and higher |
Yes |
Tick-by-tick 30 days back, minute bars 20 years back, daily bars 45 years back |
Yes |
954.652.7940
www.TradeStation.com |
| TransAct Futures |
Free for customers |
Yes |
Tick-by-tick data. Available for CME, CBOT & Eurex futures only. |
Futures |
877.872.3303
www.TFutures.com |
| Universal DDE** |
Mostly free. Price depends on data source. |
Yes |
No |
No |
N/A |