A feed is a network channel providing market data. There are two important feed categories: Streaming feeds and Snapshot feeds.

A streaming feed is a feed able to send updates over the internet whenever the market changes.

Are feeds that work a bit like web pages: the information needs first to be requested first. To update the data it is necessary to request the data again. QuoteLink does it automatically so in practice when seen from the client applications they work just like the streaming feeds except that the changes (events) will happen only at specific intervals.

The feeds are managed using the 'Feeds Dialog' application. This can be invoked in several different ways:

by using WinQL application:

run it directly on a DOS command window

winql config

or click on the tray icon and use the menu Feeds

or use Windows menu:

Start > All programs > QuoteLink > Feeds

The methods above are also the recommended way for any user application to configure the feeds. Once a feed has been configured that can be used on the same machine without further configuration.