Hi I use EODData (free EOD only - not intraday). They provide Metastock format text files ready to be converted using the Downloader. I have to wait until 2am London time so I can download the data, but then again its free so I can't complain. I think if you pay you can get it earlier. Hope this helps.

The problem is, for the $14.95 package (Bronze) you only get 30 days of historical data. The way it works is, they give you one text file per category for each day, e.g. one text file for Indices, one for Forex etc and the file shows the prices of all the securities in that category for that one day. Every day they delete the oldest day (e.g. 30 market days ago). On their website they say that for the Bronze package, the data will be available by 8pm (which is around 1am London time). The data quality is acceptable, but there was a day where the closing price of the DJ Industrials was incorrect (10th March 2011). Maybe they corrected it afterwards, I don't know, but I used different sources when I knew this figure was wrong. They used to be worse before. I remember they used to have zero data for a holiday. I sent them an email telling them this, and they replied saying that their customers prefer holiday days to be filled with zero data. They don't do that anymore, which is good. There are quite a few sources of free end of day (and even intraday) data. I can't list them here, because they are competitors of Equis/Reuters Datalink, so I don't think the mods would be too happy with that.