I've checked our multiple upstream data sources for the days in question and believe the volume should be in the millions rather than hundreds of thousands.Some vendors report volume offset their volume by a factor of 100.  I suspect this is what eSignal is doing.Also, some providers report exchange-only prices (i.e. only report the volume of ...

Yes we do sector volumes for the Dow Jones US and S&P sectors (and lower level) indexes.Recommend you take a free trial to see how it works:http://www.premiumdata.net/products/premiumdata/freetrial.php

Hi George,In MetaStock version 10 and above Equis started to use a new software licensing system from Nelpeiron called NLS.Unfortunately that licensing scheme contains code to stop people running software in a VMWare virtual machine.This is an optional feature that can be turned on or off by Equis (in probably the next version of MetaStock).  ...

I have used eSignal in the past but no longer do so... most of my trading is medium term now so I have little use for live data feeds.

NPENDRIGH:I think that an even better question for the original poster would be: As MetaStock FX is a front end to a data feed, which data feeds provide volume for FX data? eSignal does this Does Quotecenter?No spot FX data feeds provide actual volume traded since this is impossible to determine via OTC multicontributor feeds.  The ...

Such information is stored in binary form inside the MASTER and EMASTER files.  The ''MetaStock'' data format is quite well known (it's a simple extension of the Computrac format from the 1980s) - just do a search for ''MetaStock data format'' on Google.It would be a trivial exercise for a programmer to read in such files and provide you with ...

You are missing some securities.AMEX + NASDAQ + NYSE + NYSE Arca is over 7800 securities here.Perhaps your data supplier doesn't automatically add new listings and automatically maintain securities that have changed their trading symbol?

Start ''The Downloader'' (Start -> All Programs -> Equis -> The Downloader)Click Tools -> Sort -> Price Datathen click Browse and select security in question

Hi Thomas,Regarding your second question...  our data is simply data files on the hard disk.  There is no realtime component or configuration required within MetaStock Pro.  I suspect you may have put your Premium Data UserID/Password into MetaStock Pro under Tools->Options->Reuters DataLink.  To get rid of this error ...

Perhaps you don't have Write/Modify access to the location where you have your data. Try right clicking on the folder structure you keep your data in and ensure that Read Only isn't ticked and, if there is a security tab, ensure you have Modify access to that folder.I've seen this once before when a user backed up his data to a CD/DVD then copied ...

You can use the SECURITY function to do this.eg. Let's say you have an S&P 500 futures contract already open.The formula you would use is:C-SECURITY(''C:\Trading Data\Futures\Cash\$SP'',C);Substitute the path/symbol appropriate to your data.Note that MetaStock has no way of knowing a relationship between a futures contract and its underlying ...

Tick volume on forex is only a measure of the number of price updates of a chart provider's data feed for a particular currency pair.  In the case of multicontributor feeds, the tick volume also increases as more contributors come online (due to timezone differences). In such multicontributor feeds, there are often large price movements during

I'm aware of:http://www.trading-tools.com/metalib.htmas a commercial library.plus plenty of freeware source code of varying quality that is floating around (easily located in google with ''metastock data format'')

Metastock (Equis) provide the MetaStock Developers Kit where you could also do the data conversions - but you need to know a recognisable programming language.There are other alternative libraries out there too for reading/writing the Metastock format data files.I think it would be best if you contact Mansoor for support on his utilities though.