FutureSource Workstation provides advanced capability to export data for analysis outside the Workstation application. Portfolio tracking, strip calculators and risk analysis can all be tracked with the latest tick of the market.
Cut and paste price information from Workstation quotes to Microsoft Excel worksheets, where you can perform further mathematical calculations updated in real time. Workstation's DDE link continues to update the Excel worksheet as it receives new ticks.
Workstation also contains numerous import and export commands that can be beneficial in sharing data among multiple users or when merging Workstation data into other external programs.
eSignal QLink (DDE)
eSignal QLink is a Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) add-on service that makes it quick and simple to download real-time, streaming data into your Excel worksheets. You can then perform further analysis suited to your market and your strategies for trading that market.
QLink comes with a toolbar that automatically integrates with Excel, so you can easily access the many different customizable request types. For the first time, this feature will make time historical bar data available, as well as provide Time & Sales information, through a DDE interface.
You get these great benefits of QLink:
- Fast and easy DDE data integration
- Historical and bar data that allows tracking and deep analysis of price action over time, so you can use Excel's spread sheets and built-in mathematical functions to your best advantage
- Snapshot and Time & Sales functions that supply your Excel-based portfolios with eSignal’s reliable data and let you monitor real-time, streaming trades and quotes
- An easy-to-use toolbar that ties all of QLink's components together in a clean, intuitive, user-friendly way and with all report request types a single click away
- A built-in DDE API when you need to create direct formula entries for use with Excel’s Visual Basic for Applications programming language
