Any idea what happened to zen-fire feed in new Beta and when it will be available again if at all? It's not there as a data source anymore.
ZenFire requested us to temporarily remove their API from our system.
They are planning to send us their new API shortly. As soon as we receive it, our engineers will start working on its implenentation. Our estimate is that everything should be working in about 2 weeks.
The possibility of ZenFire capability sealed the deal for me and I bought a lifetime license. Bye-Bye TS!
I only used TS for strategy development and backtesting, and because my mentor uses it. I already use NT/ZenFire for order entry and trade management and there is nothing better.
1. If at all possible PLEASE get the ZenFire folks to include the capability of back-filling a couple of weeks of intraday data from their servers into MC, similar to that of the other providers. NT has this capability.
2. For those MC users who have a ZenFire datafeed and wish to dump TS/ESignal, intraday historical data is available for pretty cheap. I bought the whole banana from Disk Trading (http://disktrading.is99.com/disktrading/) for under $200. Granted, it's probably exported from TS and not as pure as ZenFire or exchange tick-data, but there's enough minute data there to keep you backtesting forever. Be aware that their data is all formatted in Eastern time, so you have to figure out a way to re-format it to the timestamps appropriate to MC and/or NT (I am writing a visual basic program to do this). ANFutures also has high-quality tick and minute data for Eminis. They sell them as individual contracts, so you have to reformat the data and figure out how to handle rollovers, etc.
Anyway if you make MC easy enough for ZenFire subscribers to hook up for real-time charting and historical data import, I think you'll get MANY more serious looks from those searching for viable alternatives to TS.
I'm not saying that Zen-Fire is not the data feed to have, I'm just saying that the real utility is in actual trading. This is something that you will not notice if you are just back testing or paper trading using MC.