Hi all, I have got a new project that requires me to work with financial market live data. I have only got very elementary webpage skill and hope to learn from you what tools/knowledge I need in order to have my website capture/compute some parameters with live data. the live data is going to be sourced from a paid service called esignal, downloaded from www.esignal.com. price and volume data. from the esignal's technical FAQ, I took down the following two of their recommendations to extract data for external use: III. Desktop API (aka ActiveX Control) The Desktop API is an ActiveX-like control that uses Microsoft® Windows®-base Component Object Model (COM) technology to provide individual users and third party development groups a way to exchange data with the eSignal desktop application. The Desktop API can be used with any Windows programming language, including Microsoft's .NET environment and requires eSignal to be running concurrently. IV. Standard API* eSignal's Standard API provides third party development groups of corporations a way to access the full set of functions for requesting and processing raw data from the eSignal suite of data servers. eSignal and the third party must agree on a series of contracts and fees before the Standard API is accessible to that third party. The Standard API supports development using C++. We also provide a wrapper around the Standard API (called the Contol API) which supports development using Visual Basic (VB), C, C++ and C#. My question is: given my lack of skill, how could I (i) learn what it takes to extract the live data, compute what I need, and put the results on my website?, or (2) get some hired help and how much will the project cost? I went into elance.com but don't know the right category of expertise in which to post my job request. appreciate any advice from the people here.
Hi, depend what you want to do ..... Web application , desktop application ..... depend also on the programming language (php,c++) ,etc.. You should gives more details.
It is going to be a web application. A webpage which auto refreshes as the computed values change, in correpondence with incoming price data. A similar page is finance.yahoo.com. The price there auto refreshes, though with a delay. But my project does not display the price, it displays the stuff I am computing with price data.
usually they provide a library for PHP or ASP , ask them. With the correct libraries you should be ok to start your project. regards.
(2) get some hired help Post on elance. look for C# or C++ developers. I'm pretty to get want you want you're going to have to a) install their standard API on your server b) hook into the API using COM calls in your scripting code ASP, coldfusion, etc. I'd like to say...sure...you can do it yourself, but there is alot of overhead there for you to catch up on. html, css, javascript, some scripting language, C++, COM, more.... Also, design is important. Knowing how and when to best use which technology.