Hi All, May be the question i am going to ask is already awnsered somewhere here in this forum but I could not find it. I am from Pakistan where I trade in a local stock exchange which provides it own trading terminal which has a facility of saving the realtime tick by tick feed into a plain text file. I developed a software in VB6 for my personal use which reads this realtime feed every 10 seconds and outputs the ticker, last price and trade volume fields via DDE. To bridge my software and the MetaStock I used HyperServer Lite. This Hyperserver lite was a free version till december 2005 after which I assume that something happened to that company 'cause they are not even awnsering emails or posts on their forum. As long as hyperserver was available or was free, I didn't bother to look for anyother possible solution but now I am looking for all possible solutions to my problem of feeding my realtime datafeed into metastock. Following are my questions and awnser to anyone of these can solve my problem. [list:f159c9a77e]- Is there any free (Lite version) software available which can act like HyperServer and accept feed via DDE and provide it to MetaStock? I already know about the paid softwares like MetaServer RT :) - Or Is there any free (Lite version) software available which can read comma seperated text file and provide the selected feilds to MetaStock? - Or Is there any built-in facility in MetaStock (like AmiBroker does have) of accepting real time feed via a DDE server? - Or can I get some sort of free SDK/MDK/API which I can use in my software to directly feed the Equis Data Server/MetaStock File Server?[/list:u:f159c9a77e] Anyother possible solutions are also welcomed. Thanks in advance :wink:

The Downloader is not one of the options for the purpose of realtime feed. I can not run Downloader manually after every 10 seconds to import new data and if I really atempt to do this then I will don't have any time left to watch the graph which is the main purpose :wink:

Dear Chheda, I did download the Hyperserver lite for 2006 and also got it registerd but those people are not responding to new requests which alerts me and I want to prepare my own tools before 2006 ends. I am heavily dependent on realtime charts for intraday trading. Yes you need a different version of Hyperserver for DDE if you are lucky enough to get it registered.

Aadi- The Equis forum is peer supported. It is not an outlet for paid technical support questions. There have been numerous DDE topics in the past with all kinds of solutions. Your needs are fairly specific with regards to real time support. I don't know of any free solutions to offer you. The two solutions that you have already mentioned have both been brought up in the past, too; however, I don't personally know of anyone currently using either of them to give you first-person feedback. Equis already offers the MDK which grants access to developing software which will interact with the MSFL. You can do this on your own or pay a professional programmer to do it for you. The MDK is available through Equis Sales. At the present time, there are no forum samples of programming MSFL; however, half of the MDK User's Manual is nothing but details and samples. Aside from that, there are several applications included on the support disk. If it is that important to you then don't skimp on the integrity of the solution. If you are going to trade real time (delayed) using MS, subscribe to real time data that MS can support or purchase a 3rd party solution. Free solutions are rarely "free".