Datafeed Development
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Hola, as I'm using Visual Chart for trading, and I'm looking for a language that can expand my tools: does this VCHARTDATA module work in real time? Is it able to get events from Visual Chart? Or is it just for backtesting? Thanks
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In this blog post, the described data feed is for the exported
CSV
data files or for direct usage of the binary (.fd
or.min
) which are of course staticFor a real-time feed and trading broker for
VisualChart
you may want to look into:In the blog post introducing the feature you can see orders that were sent to VisualChart over the
COM
interface.To take into account:
- Test a lot. The code may contain bugs, your code may contain bugs and even VisualChart may contain bugs.
- You need the python
comtypes
packaged detailed in the documentation. The Pull-Request hasn't yet been integrated into the main development tree (which seems more or less stopped from a development point of view)
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