The Complete Guide to Day Trading

The Complete Guide to Day Trading eSignal (www.esignal.com) eSignal is owned by Interactive Data Corporation, and it’s been around in the trading industry for more than 20 years. In April 1999, it was launched on the Internet.

As of February 2008, the prices for eSignal range from $125/month (for eSignal Premier) to $195/month (for eSignal Premier Plus), which makes this package slightly more expensive than a number of other trading plat forms out there. If you’re an options trader, you’ll have the capability to see 1,000 symbols through an options analysis package. In other words, you can expect to pay as much as $249 to $360 every month.

However, given that eSignal’s charting and data feeds are coming from the same provider, there will be no issues that the software provider can blame on the data feed, or vice versa. (This “blame game” is something that every professional trader has – or will – experience at some point while using trading software).

In my opinion, eSignal’s user interface is not the most intuitive available on the market today; it’s often necessary for users to refer to the help system over and over again. However, the charts can be customized in many different ways, according to your needs, and once you get used to the various shortcuts, the charting platform is actually pretty effective for fast decision-making.

When it comes to a tutorial system, the company provides complete au dio and video training to new users. There’s no need to fear being a new bie – you can familiarize yourself with the software in no time.

Now, after you set up a chart in a way that you're comfortable with – which is done by customizing sizes, colors, indicators, etc. – you can save this format and apply it to other charts without delay. The sets of charts and quote lists can be saved as ‘Pages,’ and it’s possible to switch between these pages swiftly and easily.

Each and every window in the platform can be popped out of the main eSignal window, which is a tremendous help when it comes to getting the 30