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Traders who use "Technical Analysis" as an aid in arriving at trading decisions understand that getting daily price and volume data is a vital part of their business. But to be of real use, the data that an analyst uses must be suitably prepared and maintained - it can't just be any old data. The Trading Game Data service offers an easy-to-use and affordable solution to the task of obtaining end-of-day security prices from the ASX and US markets. But more than that, the service takes care to ensure that the data it provides is well-organised and consistent, so that technical analysis may be performed on it with ease and confidence.
If you’re setting up your data for the first time, you’ll need to read the information below carefully so you’ll understand how to install the data. Your order will be forwarded to our data providers (Norgate Investor Services). Norgate will contact you by email within 24 hours to provide you with your username/password and a link to their Downloads area. If an e-mail doesn't appear to arrive from them -
Once inside the Downloads area, you will need to download the program and history installers that correspond to your subscription. For example, if you’ve subscribed to ASX updates, download the "Trading Game Data" program installer and the full ASX history installer. Save both installers to the same place on your machine - e.g. to your Windows desktop. Then find the program installer, run it and follow the prompts. The program installer should "recognise" the history installer and offer to install the history for you as part of the process. A short-cut icon to "Trading Game Data" will be left on your desktop. You can also access the program through Start > All Programs > Trading Applications. To update your data each day, just open the program and click the "Update" command. It’s all a very simple and quick process. After everything is up and running, you can safely delete the downloaded installers. These may be downloaded again at any time whilst your subscription is current - for instance, in order to set up a new machine. Excellent quality data is essential to trade effectively, and we wish you well with your trading endeavours. Updates are achieved via the Internet by a single click on the Update command. Trading Game Data employs a back-up data server in case the primary server is ever down (if this ever happens, just select Data Server 2 and try updating again). The speed of your data distribution will depend on your subscription level and the capacity of your computer (and also on whether or not you have real-time virus scanning enabled). A base level update (involving about 2,000 securities) may take as little as a handful of seconds. A full update (involving over 6,000 securities) should take, on average, a couple of minutes. Trading Game Data remembers the date of your last update. If you are away for a period of time, the program will automatically catch up on the intervening data as soon as you click "Update". There are no restrictions on the number of times a subscriber can access our servers. The Trading Game database has ASX equity prices going back to 1992 and index prices back to '93. The US data covers a period of 5 years with data for the Dow Jones going back over 100 years. Other services may offer longer price histories, but that data may not be fully adjusted for splits & consolidations. Ours is. Of course, if you intend to do any system-testing, self-consistent data is essential. Click here to see why. The Trading Game Data databases are split up by security type, to keep things tidy. This arrangement keeps the equities folder as slim as possible, to make the task of locating the ordinary shares of companies that much easier. Exchange-traded options, indices, interest-bearing securities and warrants each have their own folder. It's one thing having an accurate and self-consistent database - its another thing keeping it that way! Trading Game Data does your database house-keeping for you. Maintenance is performed on a weekly basis, with maintenance files being published over the weekend to allow the house-keeping to be completed as a stand-alone task. The following actions are performed as part of database maintenance.
The Trading Game database is held in the MetaStocktm compatible format. While this is an awkward format to deal with, it has effectively become the industry standard by virtue of the popularity of the MetaStocktm charting program. Nearly all reputable charting and analysis packages will read the MetaStocktm compatible format, even if they employ a proprietary format as well. If your third-party software can read the MetaStocktm compatible format, it will read our data. So what else can we offer you? Trading Game Data updates 14 benchmark international indices on a daily basis as a free bonus.
For more specific information about the program and the service, please visit either the Information page or the FAQ page. MetaStocktm is a registered trademark of Equis International, Inc |
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