Easy-to-Use Symbol Management

NeedForTrade stores symbols in local data base and provides intuitive interface to request required symbol.

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Symbol Properties Adjustment and Manual Symbol Creation

User is able to edit symbol parameters to adjust required symbol properties or to create symbol manually.

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Data Providers

NeedForTrade Studio works with many FREE and commercial real-time and historical data providers, such as: Interactive Brokers, DTN.IQ(IQFeed), OpenTick, Yahoo!. Also data can be imported from text (ASCII) files of arbitrary format.

For the full list of supported data providers please, visit this link.

Historical Data Cache

All historical data downloaded for any symbol is stored locally. On next request of the same data range data will be loaded from local storage. Missing data will be requested from data provider automatically. This greatly improves performance and helps to minimize network traffic.

Automatic Symbol Import From Data Provider

Symbols can be added to the system by importing them automatically from data providers. Symbol can be found by its name, type and exchange.  This just couldn't be easier.

Also the following options are available (if supported by data provider):

• Web lookup
• Web symbol guide
• Supported exchanges list

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Custom Trading Sessions and Exchanges

Platform allows to set custom trading sessions and specify additional exchanges. Session templates can be used to simplify setting of trading sessions. Trading session settings can be bound to concrete symbol or to whole exchange.

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Importing Data From Text Files (ASCII Import)

Historical data can be imported from text (ASCII) files. User is able to specify data fields, presented in text file using simple interface and save this settings as a preset for later use.

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