eSignal
The eSignal business unit is a division of Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) specializing in the delivery of real-time market information and the development of advanced trading workstations. Building on more than 20 years of experience providing time-sensitive financial information and award-winning products and services, eSignal offers global, real-time market data and decision support tools to active investors and professionals worldwide.
eSignal, the company's flagship product, is a leading real-time quote service that delivers continuously updating, time-sensitive financial data over the Internet to the PCs or laptops of active traders and individual investors. The software provides a wide range of tools and services to a growing base of online investors. Included are market quotes for stocks, options and futures, charts, news, research, alerts, back testing, a formula engine for developing chart studies and integrated trading with a choice of direct access brokerages. The product offers a full line of add-on products, including popular technical analysis studies, as well as real-time market scanners to pinpoint winning trades.
eSignal's Advanced GET product suite includes the award-winning Advanced GET Real-Time and End-of-Day software and the Advanced GET Scanner.
eSignal also serves institutional and professional traders. eSignal is a popular platform for these traders, as is eSignal Pro, which is specifically designed for the professional trader. eSignal Pro is a market data solution bundled for best value for small to mid-size institutional investors and includes additional, optional services. In addition, FutureSource offers the professional marketplace a variety of advanced trading solutions.
eSignal re-launched QuoTrek -- one of its most popular products -- in early 2004. The original QuoTrek pioneered the offering of real-time, wireless quotes delivered to a handheld unit via FM airwaves back in 1983. Today, the new QuoTrek delivers global, real-time quotes, charts and news to a software application that users can download to their wireless, Internet-ready PDAs, such as Palm, Pocket PC, BlackBerry and smart phones.
In 2004, FutureSource, its product suite and portal site (www.FutureSource.com), joined the eSignal division, providing the futures, energy and foreign exchange trading community with fast and accurate, real-time market data, decision support systems and services.
In 2006, Quote.com and related assets from Lycos joined the eSignal division. Quote.com offered four distinct products with financial content and trading tools. These include QCharts and LiveCharts, which provide real-time, streaming data and decision support tools that help active traders formulate investment strategies, as well as Quote.com, a financial news and analysis website, and Raging Bull, an online investment community and message board site.
With these exciting developments, eSignal has expanded its leadership in the retail investor market by providing the most comprehensive suite of professional-level decision support tools available to the active trader.
Dedicated to providing accurate, reliable data and the fastest connections possible, eSignal offers a product line that is backed by one of the most technically advanced ticker plant infrastructures capable of handling the ever-changing demands of the stock market. Engineered and operated internally, the advanced IP multicast backbone, boasting multiple, geographically dispersed server farms, fed with live data from direct, redundant connections with exchanges all over the world, is the building block for supporting the sophisticated infrastructure that makes eSignal’s award-winning reputation well deserved.
