Configure QuoteIN with QuoteTracker

Before starting

  • You must be a QuoteTracker's subscriber to use this feature it will not work without it
  • Make sure that you have QuoteTracker version 3.6.3 or later installed
  • Make sure that you have QuoteIN version 0.70.1 or later (check using menu QuoteIN > About)
  • You must have one or more data provider accounts in QuoteTracker

Prepare QuoteTracker

  • Test the data provider account(s) within QuoteTracker to be sure that the user names and passwords are accepted and the feeds are working properly
  • Make sure QuoteTracker streaming API is enabled and use QuoteTracker menus as follows
 Menu Options > sub menu Edit Preferences > tab Misc > set API Server Settings to ON 

QuoteIN Setup

  • Start QuoteTracker
  • Click on the icon 'qL'in the windows task bar (right bottom of your screen) and click the *sub menu* Feeds. (If the icon 'qL' is not there use Start > All Programs > Start WinQL to make it appear)
    • A dialog box titled Active Feeds will open:

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This dialog box shows all feeds that are currently active. You are going to add one or more feeds coming through QuoteTracker to this list.

  • click button 'Full List'
  • a new Dialog box titled Select feeds opens; You will see that all QuoteTracker feeds are listed there (there are more than 100 feeds appearing)

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  • For each feed you want to add follow this:
    • find the feed in this list
    • select the feed from the list and type an abbreviation to use it
    • click button <b>Add feed with suffix</b>
    • when you have added all feeds Close the 'Select feeds' dialog box
  • You are back in the Active feeds dialog box. You will see that now it also contains the feeds just added.
  • If you have just one feed or a preferred feed set it as default feed
  • close the Active feeds dialog box.

Quick Test

  • Using menu QuoteIN > Examples open the first example Basic Example
  • In the left top cell (over MSN) type one of the abbreviations just added.
  • The example quote list will be repopulated with the quotes coming from the corresponding source. These quotes should be streaming if the feed is a streaming feed and the market is open.

You will be using the different feed abbreviations given while configuring to access the different feeds in your formulas.

Notes

  • Remember that for any future sessions you need to launch QuoteTracker before using any of the QuoteTracker's feed.
  • You can use QT and direct feeds simultaneously and mix their data in cells.
  • To use the default feed as defined in QT simply add 'QuoteTracker Streaming' direct feed
  • Some of the QuoteTracker feeds are snapshot based for the auto-refresh rate is set in QuoteTracker