Xignite November 12, 2009
Posted by James Webster in : finance, development , trackbackXignite, ‘on demand financial market data’ recently got some coverage from TechCrunch regarding their upcoming integration with StockTwits and iPhone portfolio management apps from Turing Studios.
Xignite have some great looking APIs and I understand that their business model is all about providing the data ‘on demand’, but it would be great if they could combine their use of open APIs with a basic market data streaming offering as well. They could take the ‘comet‘ approach, use a 3rd-party technology like Caplin Liberator or Lightstreamer, or perhaps the best forward thinking option, adopt HTML 5 Websockets. Since they would be delivering their stream via the Internet rather than leased line or private packet switched network there would be more latency compared to a professional solution such as Bloomberg or Reuters, so is there a market for streaming financial data at a lower SLA?
I would like to do some experimentation with these APIs, maybe amCharts’ WPF Stock Chart control will be an excellent way to visualise the data. Hopefully amCharts are working on a Silverlight version as well.
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James,
Xignite has be discussing adding different delivery models to expand our offerings. Would love to hear your ideas and what you are seeing demand for.
FYI, amCharts has released a Silverlight version of Stock Chart control.
do you know if you can integrate xignite with the amChart stock control?