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Programs

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Data Providers

Norgate Premium Data — end-of-day world stock, futures and forex data






Quotes Plus — end-of-day data for stocks and mutual funds







DTN IQ – real-time data for stocks, futures, options – most world markets






Interactive Brokers — real-time data for stocks, futures, forex







Historical Data, some with daily updates
  • MSN Money – Historical end-of-day stock data — Integrated with AmiQuote
  • Yahoo Finance – Historical end-of-day stock data — integrated with AmiQuote


  • Interactive Brokers — Real-time data for stocks, futures, forex
  • Norgate Premium Data — End-of-day world stock, futures and forex data
  • Quotes Plus — End-of-day data for stocks and mutual funds


  • AN Futures – Historical 1 minute data for ES, NQ, ER, ME, EC, JY
  • CSI Data – End-of-day US, Canada, London stock and futures data in CSI format
  • EOD Data – End-of-day world data
  • Futures Guide – Historical futures data
  • Historical Option Data – Historical options data with daily updates
  • Investor's FastTrack – End-of-day US mutual fund and stock (Close-only) data, and proprietary program
  • Just Data – End-of-day world stock and futures, from Australia
  • Pi Trading – Free historical end-of-day index, forex, commodities data
  • Pinnacle Data – End-of-day futures, indexes, market breadth
  • Price-Data.com – End-of-day and intra-day US stock and futures data in ASCII files
  • Turtle Trader – Free historical futures data
  • Worden TeleChart 2007 – End-of-day and intra-day US stock data, and proprietary analysis program

  • Real-time and Delayed Market Snapshot
  • Bloomberg – Broad market information
  • CBOE – Market data, including VIX and VXN
  • CNN Market Summary – Broad market information, including pre-market
  • CNN – commodities
  • CQG – Real-time and historical intra-day data for world stocks and commodities
  • DTN IQ – Real-time data for stocks, futures, options – most world markets
  • eSignal — Real-time data for stocks, futures, forex (also end-of-day) — MarketCenter is no longer available
  • Fidelity – Delayed and real-time quotes
  • Fund Estimate – Intra-day estimate of fund closing price
  • Google Finance – Broad market information
  • Integrity Data – Real-time data for the Indonesian markets
  • Market Watch – Dow Jones – Broad market information
  • MSN Money – Broad market information
  • NASDAQ – Real-time market data
  • Quote.com – World stocks and futures
  • Reuters – Broad market information
  • Smart Money – Streaming real-time quotes
  • Tick Data – Real-time market data and historical quotes
  • Trading Charts – Intra-day futures prices and charts
  • Yahoo Finance – Broad market information


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    Lists of tickers and index components
  • Dow Jones – Index components
  • FTSE – FTSE 100 index components
  • Index Arb – S&P 500 components by weight
  • NASDAQ – Component stocks of the NASDAQ 100 index
  • Price-Data.com – Ticker lists for major indexes
  • Russell – Index fact sheets
  • Standard & Poor's – S&P index information
  • Standard & Poor's – S&P 500 components
  • Standard & Poor's – S&P 100 components
  • XAU Gold Index – Components and quotes for the stocks in the XAU


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    Exchange Traded Funds
  • CBOE – Options on ETFs
  • Claymore – ETF sponsor
  • Cohen and Steers – ETF sponsor
  • Currency Shares – Currency ETFs
  • Deutsche Bank Notes – Exchange Traded Notes - Single and double beta on commodities
  • Elements – S&P Commodity Trends Indicator
  • ETF Connect – Nuveen
  • ETF Screen.com – Performance comparison of Exchange Traded Funds
  • ETF Trends – Commentary and links
  • E*TRADE – ETF page
  • First Trust – ETF sponsor
  • Focus Shares – ETF sponsor
  • Index Universe – Indexes and ETFs
  • Inverse Funds – a list
  • iPath – Barclays – commodities, currencies, emerging markets ETFs
  • iShares – Information about iShares ETFs, including components
  • Master Data – List of all ETFs; intra-day ETF data
  • Morningstar – Exchange Traded Funds; list by trading volume; shows holdings
  • PowerShares – Information about PowerShare ETFs, including components
  • Price-Data.com – Lists of Exchange Traded Funds
  • ProShares – Information about ProShare ETFs
  • Rydex – Information about Rydex ETFs
  • S&P Sectors – Information about S&P Sector ETFs, including components
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (US) – on ETFs
  • Seeking Alpha – ETC and CEF Commentary and links
  • Smart Money – ETF Tracker
  • State Street Global Investors – ETF portfolio tools
  • Van Eck – ETF sponsor
  • Wisdom Tree – ETF sponsor
  • XTF – Informative ETF site
  • Yahoo – Exchange Traded Funds Center

  • Mutual Funds
    Links to fund companies that offer funds that are in one of these categories:
    Fund Companies
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    The Major Exchanges
  • American Stock Exchange
  • NASDAQ site
  • New York Stock Exchange


  • Australian Securities Exchange
  • Bombay Stock Exchange
  • Euronext – FTSE, CAC
  • Frankfurt Stock Exchange
  • Hong Kong Stock Exchange
  • London Stock Exchange
  • Mexican Bolsa
  • Madrid Bolsa
  • New Zealand Stock Exchange
  • Swiss Exchange
  • Tokyo Stock Exchange
  • Toronto Stock Exchange


  • Chicago Board Options Exchange – CBOE
  • Chicago Board of Trade – CBOT/CME
  • Chicago Mercantile Exchange – CBOT/CME
  • Intercontinental Exchange
  • Kansas City Board of Trade
  • New York Board of Trade
  • New York Mercantile Exchange
  • One Chicago


  • List of Stock Exchanges
  • All World Exchanges


  • International Market Trading Hours


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    US Regulatory Agencies
  • CFTC - Commodity Futures Trading Commission – US Regulator
  • FINRA - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority – Formerly NASD - National Association of Securities Dealers
  • NFA - National Futures Association – US Regulator
  • SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission – US Regulator


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    Forums and Discussion Groups

  • AmiBroker Yahoo Group – The main Yahoo group
  • AmiBroker-AFL Yahoo Group – Sharing AFL programming ideas
  • AmiBroker-AT Yahoo Group – Automated trading
  • AmiBroker-Beta Yahoo Group – Discussing beta releases
  • AmiBroker-DLL Yahoo Group – Developers of plug-ins
  • AmiBroker-News Yahoo Group – Notices of new versions of AmiBroker
  • AmiBroker-TS Yahoo Group – Discussing trading systems


  • AmiBroker Fan – Good Forum discussions
  • Aussie Stock Forums – Excellent forum discussions – Not just for Aussies
  • Elite Trader – Active discussions
  • Market Thoughts – Active discussions
  • PureBytes – AmiBroker forum archives


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    Educational and Miscellaneous

  • AmiBroker – User's Knowledge Base
  • Autumn Gold – CTA performance
  • BabyPips – Forex education (link is often slow)
  • Bollinger – John Bollinger
  • Business Week – Company information, mostly fundamental
  • Newedge (formerly Calyon Financial) Barclay Index – CTA performance
  • Capital Management Partners – CTA performance
  • Capital Management Partners – Relationship between commodities and stocks
  • Chart School – John Murphy
  • Crimson Mind – Options activity
  • Daily Reckoning – Newsletter and forums
  • eSignal Learning – a digest of one-pagers on technical indicators
  • Forex Realm – Technical indicators
  • Fund Advice – Paul Merriman
  • HedgeStreet – Online commodity futures trading – including binary options
  • Internet Public Library – Investments
  • Investopedia – Stock information, including splits
  • PIMCO – Bill Gross
  • Quatloos – Frauds of all kinds
  • Seasonal Charts – Annual seasonality
  • Stator – Portfolio management software
  • Trending123 – Technical analysis on stocks, indices, and currencies
  • Wikipedia – General information
  • Wilmott – Quantitative finance


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    Books, journals, and magazines worth reading

  • Active Trader Magazine, (800) 341-9384, www.activetradermag.com
  • Aronson, David, Evidence-Based Technical Analysis, Wiley, 2007
  • Bernstein, Peter, Against the Gods, Wiley, 1996
  • Drobny, Steven, Inside the House of Money, Wiley, 2006
  • Ehlers, John, Rocket Science for Traders, Wiley, 2001
  • Ehlers, John, Cybernetic Analysis of Stocks and Futures, Wiley, 2004
  • Fontanills, George, Getting Started in Commodities, Wiley, 2007
  • Formula Research, Nelson Freeburg, (800) 720-1080, www.formularesearch.com
  • Futures Magazine, (800) 458-1734, www.futuresmag.com
  • Hulbert Financial Digest, (866) 428-6568, www.marketwatch.com
  • Jones, Ryan, The Trading Game, Wiley, 1999
  • Leach, Patrick, Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?, Probabilistic Publishing, 2006
  • Lowenstein, Roger, When Genius Failed, Random House, 2000
  • Poundstone, William, Fortune's Formula, Hill and Wang, 2005
  • Stocks, Futures, and Options Magazine, (800) 590-0919, www.sfomag.com
  • Taleb, Nassim, Fooled by Randomness, Norton, 2001
  • Taleb, Nassim, The Black Swan, Random House, 2007
  • Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, (800) 832-4642, www.traders.com
  • Tharp, Van, Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, 2nd Ed, McGraw-Hill, 2007
  • Vince, Ralph, Portfolio Management Formulas, Wiley, 1990
  • Vince, Ralph, The Mathematics of Money Management, Wiley, 1992
  • Vince, Ralph, The New Money Management, Wiley, 1995
  • Vince, Ralph, The Handbook of Portfolio Mathematics, Wiley, 2007


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