What our customers are saying:
I want to thank Nanex and Eric Hunsader for providing the trade and quote
data for the options and their underlying stocks. I use these data in my
doctorate thesis at UIUC which can be found at SSRN (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1963865).
I thank Nanex in the acknowledgment section of the paper, but I decided to also
send you this e-mail. Nanex gave the data to my advisor Neil Pearson and John
Broussard several years ago, and this is the second paper which uses it. The
quality of the data is amazing which significantly simplifies programming and
doing research.
Dmitriy Muravyev
Ph.D. Candidate in Finance
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The system you've created is very impressive! I'm already developing on it
for a Federal government agency and am looking forward to analyzing the market
feed in the coming weeks.
Shawn
Federal Government Developer
I've been working in software development for the financial industry for
over 15 years, both for European and US markets. There were many data feeds
protocols and APIs passing through my dev environment, starting with market
data received through TV teletext service and satellite antennas and continuing
with the Internet feeds that are so common now. I've developed on almost every
single datafeed in United States; Sungard, Comstock, Tenfore/Morningstar,
Quote.com, eSignal, IQFeed, Hyperfeed, Activ Financial are the ones I can
recall. I remember reading hundreds of pages of documentation sometimes spread
in three or even more separate documents, with tens of appendixes and tables. I
remember trying to navigate through the mess of DLLs and EXEs that some of them
provided as part of their API. I remember trying to understand their sample
apps, some of them including ten or more source and header files. If you don't
wish to have memories such as these (many times accompanied by frustration) and
you wish to have unlimited data passing through your dev environment - NxCore
is for you.
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I'm totally impressed by how much this small component can do. Never have I
seen such simplicity and such power delivered with such a small footprint and
using so few resources. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to use
NxCore.
Cose Craus
Nirvana Systems, Inc.
Austin, TX
In today's marketplace, there is no room for error, data omission, latency
or excuses when it comes to market data. After we had been a customer of
Hyperfeed for five years and S&P Comstock for two, I had come to the
realization that to get market data "right", I was going to have to
do it myself. Our troubles with Hyperfeed and Comstock were nothing short of
endless. Technology shortcomings, database misconfigurations, data losses and
endless excuses. Six months into a project to build our own ticker processing
plant for SIAC and OPRA feeds I somewhat accidentally ran into Nanex and
NxCore. It took nothing more than a one week evaluation of NxCore for us to
make the decision to terminate the new ticker plant development efforts and to
make a full commitment to NxCore. This is a decision that could not have turned
out better. Our trading precision has grown significantly, profits have grown
and NxCore is the foundation of our data requirements. Every representation
made of NxCore is flawlessly accurate. Without a doubt, Eric Hunsader is a
visionary in the market data software field and has created the most useful,
reliable and completely well thought out ticker plant in the industry. You can
consider the rest, but choose only the best - NxCore.
J. Brian Schaer
USA Securities
I have been in the financial markets for over 20 years. I have tried all
kinds of software and data products. Just like everything else in the
marketplace the "sales pitch" is usually far from the actual
experience. There are other testimonials about NxCore and how wonderful the
data feed is and how easy it is to use (I was up and running in a couple of
days). I agree with everything "technical" that you can read in all
the other testimonials – NxCore, as a product, is truly amazing. However,
it is my expectation that something that is advertised to work – WILL WORK
– AND will work as advertised. Obviously, NxCore works as advertised. BUT,
where NxCore is vastly differently from "the rest" is their customer
service AFTER the sale. I have had my share of issues (all except one were my
errors), but each time I contacted Eric for help he accommodated me quickly,
efficiently and "happily" - even when I had made some stupid mistakes
in my software and blamed the NxCore product. (Which is what all programmers do
right? "It can’t be my software!!!") Nanex’s commitment to
supporting me on an ongoing basis is just as important to me as the quality of
their product. Thank you Nanex for your "cutting edge technology" and
your "very old-fashioned customer service".
Jeff Smith
Spokane, WA
I am a developer who has been writing applications for the financial markets
since 1986. I am not a trader. Trading would distract me. I write applications
for professional traders and they pay me extremely well to do so. Since 1986, I
have coded for almost every imaginable ticker plant - feed stream - api system
known….From the early DTN cable boxes, ESignal boxes, PCQuote Satellite
systems, Hyperfeed and Comstock servers, Quote.Com, Spryware servers and more
(hey it's been 20 years I've probably forgotten a few). I have also spent many
years in the trenches of real-time 3d graphics programming and have honed a
variety of optimization skills which are equally applicable to coding for
financial markets. I have worked (as a contractor) for numerous Fortune 500
companies as a senior developer and have in the past found enough time to have
several technical articles/books published. I tell you this so that you may
know where my experience lies how to better interpret my views.
I have only recently been made aware of NxCore (March 2007) and what I can
tell you right up front is that, quite simply, NxCore is by far the most
powerful and robust piece of Ticker Plant software I have come across in my
coding career. Regarding the speed and throughput of the actual NxCore
application and data stream, I'm going to keep this simple and tell you that it
is everything it is advertised to be and more. For the first time in a long
time (in my career) the software is exactly what it claims to be. Read the spec
sheet from Nanex….it is 100% accurate.
As for coding NxCore, the problem is really where to start? The structures
are the cleanest I have seen in ticker plant software. Easy to understand, easy
to access and every data type has been thought through completely. Say goodbye
to string compares entirely for symbol lookup with several mechanisms ready for
you to utilize for lightning fast access and issue lookups. Say hello to having
data for the ENTIRE market ready to access immediately. And say hello (maybe
for the first time) to consistency within a system that has been thought
through from every angle
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Thanks!
Jeffrey Donovan
Santa Barbara, California
I've been in the business for 17 years mainly doing arbitrage type trading.
It has always been a major ongoing issue getting a reliable data feed at a
decent price. Over this time I have used just about every product on the
market, and since I found NxCore the issues have faded away. Not only do I not
need the T1 lines anymore but I can reliably receive data via an internet
connection and easily compete in the arbitrage market. I would highly recommend
this service to anyone.
Mike Ianni
Richmond Hill, Ontario Canada
I have been using continuous data feeds since 1995. I started with BMI and
then changed to Hyperfeed. In mid 2004, Hyperfeed notified me that by the end
of the year it would take 3 dedicated T1's bundled together to supply me with
the data I was receiving and that they expected the requirements to double in
time. Fortunately Eric was beginning to test his new Nanex product NxCore. I
tested it and found that not only did it broadcast the same continuous data
that I was receiving, but it also created a large daily file that I could do
detailed time and sales studies against and it all came over the internet!
Harold Lanier
Roswell, GA
I switched from Hyperfeed / Comstock about this time last year to NxCore.
NxCore offers state of the art design, function, and reliability that does not
exist in other products in the marketplace. The service has been outstanding.
The product design is excellent, the support from Eric Hunsader is without
parallel, and the accuracy of the data is the best I have seen.
R.K.
Dallas, TX
I have used a number of data feeds, including Hyperfeed. The NxCore API is
by far the easiest to use and the NxCore data feed is by far the fastest, the
most complete and the most robust. But best of all the entire NxCore data feed,
including bbo options, is easily delivered over a 3mbps internet connection.
NxCore requires nothing more than a cable modem and a modest P.C. to receive
the entire US equitity and option market.
Rudi Binnewies
California
This feed is HIGHLY recommended. There's nothing else like it. (I make that
statement with the historical perspective of having used the old Universal
Market Data Server and M3 with Comstock, E-Signal with its ActiveX API,
Quote.com with its API).
Allan Kaminsky
See full review
Making sure that we are getting a “complete picture” of the
day’s trading activity is an essential requirement for our “black
box” application and website development efforts. NxCore made that
possible and they did 90% of the work for us. Using the NxCore data API’s
and the provided application programming templates, we were accessing the core
real-time data we needed within 2 days of starting our development. If you need
a complete market data feed with a powerful yet easy-to-use data API, there is
simply nothing else comparable to NxCore. With other market data providers, if
your data link goes down you have lost that market data forever. With NxCore we
did not lose a single trade or quote message when our ISP recently experienced
a major fiber outage. When the ISP connection came back up after the hour long
outage, NxCore automatically downloaded the missed data and our application
servers we were back running normally within 8 minutes. We didn’t even
have to restart a single application. For us NxCore was simply the only product
that could meet our need for complete market data access over the Internet with
an easy-to-use yet powerful data API.
Greg Ferris
Former President and COO CyBerTrader Inc.
After over a year of service from ESignal I decided to switch to NxCore. I
have now been using NxCore for almost a year and to date I have found their
service to be far superior in every conceivable dimension. Their servers run
with fewer interruptions. Their software is far more robust. The API is
significantly more intuitive to work with and the brilliant interface to the
data eleminates costly look-up times. The tech support is unparalleled for any
industry. Eric Hunsader offers friendly and extremely competant support beyond
all expectations. Still further, NxCore has redefined low latency data
delivery. Their proprietary data compression format makes it possible to
deliver an enormous amount of data via cable modem with virually no lag! NxCore
offers a superior real-time data feed solution appropriate for anyone - from
the largest institutions to smallest in house operation. I highly recommend
this product for anyone looking for a reliable data feed solution.
R.A.
Florida
Over my 15 years plus of trading experience, I've used several different
data feeds and charting applications. ..
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the full text] .. In summary, the bottom line is that my trading profits
have increased dramatically over the last year and a half and I attribute a
great deal of that to the use of NxCore Hot List data and the capabilities it
provides.
Bob Scott Seal Beach,
California
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