Data Provider is another important concept in mGlider so let's spend a little bit of time understanding what it is. Luckily, like everything else in mGlider, it is pretty easy.

Our company doesn't supply delayed or real-time data for any security type. Instead we integrated access to many existing services directly into mGlider application. We call those services Data Providers. So whether you're configuring a time frame for a stock or index or future contract or FOREX currency pair you have to specify which data provider you want to use. mGlider comes pre-configured with default data providers for all supported securities. In many cases default settings are exactly what you need, in other cases you may want to adjust them.

By default, a data provider set to "Default". An image on a "Symbol look-up" button always indicates which data provider is currently used for a time frame. In this case it's Yahoo Finance which is a default data provider.

Any data provider needs a special symbol associated with a security to send price data back to mGlider. It's important to provide symbols that are understood by the data provider in use. For example, "GE" has to be accepted by Yahoo Finance as a valid symbol in these 2 cases:

To find out what the symbol is for a security in question you can click on a "Symbol look-up" button. This will open a browser window with a web site of a particular data provider explaining rules for constructing symbols and providing search or look-up functionality.