eSignal Problems

[Sidhartha]

Hi Guys,

I just signed up for a data feed with eSingal (to add to my growing list of data providers!!)... I just tried to establish a connection as per your connection guides and I get the following error...

"Unable to locate component

Application failed to start becasue IMPLODE.DLL was not found"


etc...etc

Any ideas...?? I'm running NT 6.5.1000.1

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Please make sure you have eSignal installed. Please consult with eSignal support on how to do that.

[Sidhartha]

Ahh ok. So I need eSignal software installed regardless of the fact that I have a 'data only' package with them...?

Thanks Dierk.

[Sidhartha]

Also Dierk, while I'm here, can I ask about getting historical data from IB... I keep getting a message saying I've hit my 'historical data download limit' for IB... and it won't give me any more data for a while.

This seems to be happening very quickly... i.e. if I try and load a years worth of AAPL daily data I hit the limit.

Does this sound right...? Is it a known issue...? If so, I guess none of your users use IB for historical data purposes...?

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Please consult eSignal on what you have to install to use their services.

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

>> 'historical data download limit'
Please consult IB support on what restrictions apply to your IB account.

[Sidhartha]

Dierk,

How many connections can I have open in NT at one time... and it will it move down them in descending priority looking for data...??

i.e. could I have ZenFire, eSignal and IB open as connections in that order...?

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

>> could I have ZenFire, eSignal and IB open as connections in that order...?
yes, provided you have a multi-broker license

>> will it move down them in descending priority looking for data...??
yes

[wayneFH]

Problems with eSignal...

Guys, I'm having the same implode.dll error message and dbcapi.dll message immediately after it.

This a new installation on a fresh Windows Server PC. It all runs fine on personal desktop.

I installed eSignal 10 from www.esignal.com/download/default.asp (same version I have on my desktop)

I installed NinjaTrader 6.5.1000.1 and got this implode.dll message when I try to connect to eSignal. It recommends reinstalling which I have done.

NOTE: Could the problem be related to my installing NT first? I installed eSignal after NT.

The Data Manager itself starts up and connects fine. So the eSignal install worked properly.

Just now, I also completely uninstalled NT and then reinstalled it. That also failed to fix it.

Could it be that a couple of dlls are missing from the install?

Remember, this is Windows Server rather than a Window XP PC. But in another thread you said it should work find on Windows Server.

So what have I done wrong?

Sincerely,
Wayne

[wayneFH]

Wait, the dll's are there. So what gives?

I looked and found the NinjaTrader 6.5/bin/ESignal folder which contains both of these dll's.

So they're there. Why does it fail? eSignal is installed and working well.

Please advise.

Wayne

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Maybe this will help?

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1847&highlight=implode.dll+esignal

[wayneFH]

Ray, that's version 8, right?

Ray,

I already found that thread, followed the link and it was the same version 10 that I have now instead of 8 as in the post you refer to. Anyway, I re-installed it using that link and it still didn't work.

Also, I found this thread that said to try re-installing eSignal and it worked for that person. Well I just re-downloaded and re-installed and Argh. It still doesn't work. This time I completely removed eSignal and then installed it. Hmmm. What else to try?

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1601&highlight=esignal+implode

[Sidhartha]

Hi Wayne,

very strange since my problem was resolved the minute I downloaded eSignal. When I posted this thread I had not yet downloaded eSignal v10. The moment I did, everything worked fine.

I hope you get it sorted. Sorry I can't be more help.

Yours

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

You can try uinstalling eSignal, deleting any files/folders for eSignal, clear browser cache and install again.

If that does not work, maybe Dierk will have some ideas later tonight.

[wayneFH]

Ray, thanks for trying and update for Dierk..

Ray, I did as you asked, uninstalled, deleted the eSignal folder, and then cleared the browser cache and previous downloads. Finally I re-installed eSignal. The started NT to try connecting again. The same implode.dll and dbcapi.dll error dialogs appeared.

NOTE: I compared the eSignal downloaded file with the one I originally downloaded and installed on my PC. They appear to be the same.

The only difference it appears is that I installed 6.5.0.10 originally with eSignal and then upgraded to 6.5.1000.1.

Could it be that 6.5.1000.1 has an issue with eSignal when installed alone? Should I try using 6.5.0.10?

Or could it because this is on Windows Server? I doubt that since everything works fine except for this.

Wayne