Creating your own Quoteboard

Posted in User Tips by tharnett on January 8, 2010

We have heard from a few long time users who looking for a quote board in MarketDelta. Right now one does not exist in the exact form they were looking for, but this is something we can look to add in future development. Given immediate needs I took a few minutes to through together a home grown quote board in Excel using the DDE link from MarketDelta.

The great thing about this is the flexibility that can be provided and the customization you can do if you want to get creative with it. In fact, a common thing MD users might want to do is have the delta for a collective set of instruments DDE’d out to excel for reference and further comparison, calculation, etc.

Here is a link to a good FAQ on using DDE in MarketDelta. Scrolling to the bottom of the KB article will give a more advanced method of doing things if interested.

If you want to download and use this spreadsheet as a working example, click here. MarketDelta will need to be running and you may need to change the symbols used. In this example I was using eSignal as the data feed.

4 Responses to Creating your own Quoteboard

  • Hi,

    I tried this DDE on the MD Beta version. Everytime I try updating the values, it tells me “Cannot run ‘RT.exe’”.

    Any solution for this?

    —ltp
    January 19, 2010 at 11:40 am

  • I’m having the same problem as the above person?

    Hi,

    I tried this DDE on the MD Beta version. Everytime I try updating the values, it tells me “Cannot run ‘RT.exe’”.

    Any solution for this?

    —douglas
    January 27, 2010 at 7:14 am

  • Let us look into this. If a problem (which seems likely) we will fix for next beta release.

    —Trevor Harnett
    January 27, 2010 at 3:14 pm

  • The fix for the “cannot run ‘RT.exe’” is to change the symbols on the quoteboard to ones that work with you data feed. The data vendor used in the example above was eSignal, so all the symbols are hardcoded for eSignal. If you are using another data feed, then manually change each cell to contain the correct symbol, or simply just delete the row, column, or cell if you don’t want it.

    —Trevor Harnett
    January 28, 2010 at 7:22 am

Add a Comment