ManshiRT – Setup Free Realtime Datafeed for Amibroker

by Rajandran R

Here is an amazing realtime datafeed software for Amibroker available at free of cost. This light weight utility Extracts realtime datafeed from Yahoo,ODIN,TT Advance,Keatpro. Also the software has an autobackfill funtionality for NSE,BSE,NASDAQ which sounds little amazing.

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Supporting Softwares Required
1) Dot Net 3.5 Framework SP1
2) VS 2008 redistributable

Its is not recommended to use the Microsoft download mirror to download supporting softwares if you are not using the official version of windows

To know how to install watch out the video for Installation instructions

For more support visit ManshiRT yahoo group

Update ManshiRT 0.9.1.1 Version Released

Dear Members,

New Version of ManshiRT has been released. It is available at

http://manshi.co.in/Trial/Trial.html

The new features in this release are:

1) Metastock support has been added
2) FCharts support has been added
3) PIB support has been added
4) Nest Trader support has been added

Metastock Support
Metastock support has been added in the latest release. To configure Metastock, follow the following steps:
1) Open settings dialog
2) Click on “Charting S/W” tab
3) Give metastock DB directory in “MS DB Directory” textbox. Preferably, give an empty directory path
4) Click OK

Notes:
1) Metastock charts should refresh automatically. If it does not happen, please run MetaRefresh.exe tool which is being included in this release. I am working on finding a better mechanism to solve this issue – untill then please use this method to refresh charts
2) Win7 and Vista users, make sure ManshiRT is run as an admininitrator – right click and select “run as administrator”

FCharts Support

ManshiRT Configuration – follow the following steps to configure ManshiRT for FCharts

1) Open settings dialog
2) Clcik on “Charting S/W” tab
3) Under specify a data directory for FCharts data in “Fcharts” Data folder text box eg c:ManshiRTChartsData

FCharts Configuration – following the following steps to configure FCharts to use RT data from ManshiRT server:

Open FCharts, and choose “Intraday” button on the left hand side, which will open a dialog named “Live Data”. Ensure following settings has been made to get real-time data.

a) Source: Ascii Files
b) choose “Open feed on startup”
c) Under Import Ascii Files, specify FCharts directory as given above e.g. C:ManshiRTChartsData
d) choose “Import changed files only”
e) Specify update frequency in seconds as you wish – Poll every _ seconds (1 to 60)
f) Start to update real-time/backfill data’s

PIB Support

PIB support with backfill has been added – though it has not been tested extensively. Follow the following steps to configure PIB:

1) Open settings dialog
2) Click on “PIB / TT Adv” tab
3) Give PIB data directory in “PIB Data Directory” text box. Note this is the directory where .csv data files are created. For an example, if PIB is insalled in C:Program FilesIndiaBulls and your client id is 23417, the data directory should be c:Program filesIndiaBulls23417Data.

TradeTiger Support

1) Open settings dialog
2) Click on Odin Watchlist tab
3) Select source as “Trade Tiger”. Trade tiger watchlist numbers will be displayed in the watchlist list box below the source combobox
4) Select a watchlist and click on “Start RT Data Capture” to start real time data capture from the Trade Tiger.

Please note vs 2008 redistributable is pre-requisite for this functionality. It can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf&displaylang=en

Vista and Win7 users – Make sure ManshiRT and TradeTiger are running in administrator accunt.

Metastock Backfill

A small change has been made in the metastock functionality and backfill should work fine now – though I have not been test it throughly. Kindly report any issues you face.

Nest Trader Support

Follow the following steps to configure Nest Trader. Make sure that Nest Trader has already been started before doing the following.

1) Open Settings dialog
2) Click on “Odin Watchlist” Dialog
3) select source as “Nest Trader”. The watchlist below will be populated with the available Nest Trader watchlists
4) Select watchlist and click on “Start RT Data Capture”
5) Click Ok

Note: During testing, it was observed tht Nest Trader updates only symbols which are visible in the list. Prices for other symbols are updated only when these are scrolled and thus are updated when become visible. The is a Nest Trader issue only.

Update

A new verions, 0.9.1.4, of Manshi RT has been released which is available at
http://www.4shared.com/file/hr-iDZKZ/ManshiRT-0914-15Apr2010.html Changes

1) Yahoo symbol limit has been increased from 50 to 185 symbols

2) Trade Tiger backfill – a visual user interface to notify user about success, failure and reason of failure of the backfill. Using this UI, the backfill symbol name can also be changed, if neeeded

3) Symbol mapping – now the symbol mapping could be initiaed from the RT ticker. The selected symbol/s will be automatically added to the symbol map table. This will assist in avoiding symbol errors during symbol mapping. To use this feature, select a symbol right click and select “Symbo Map” option

If you face any issue, please send debug traces. To capture debug traces, enable debug through “Settings->Debug”.

Regards
Rajandran R

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