Hello, GTji,
Have you taken a trial of ManshiRT's Amibroker plugin for NOW or NEST? I installed it but couldn't trade for a week as I happened to be out of town and the trial period elapsed.
I have read some reasonably good reviews about it but I had a few queries regarding the plugin which went unanswered despite my repeated emails to the guy.
Don't know about the pricing at Rs.150 as ManshiRT charges Rs.400 for one platform and Rs.500 for two platforms.
Am not aware of any reliable data providers of MCX who are in the sub Rs.1000 per month category. I intend to trade only in Silver,Gold, Crude. I think NinjaTrader offers MCX realtime data but I heard its delayed by a few seconds from quite a few folks and they charge an astronomical sum for that. I was a subscriber of GDFL's realtime NFO data but their streaming quality went from bad to abysmal which led me to discontinue my subscription when it came up for renewal.
I am aware of the Excel to Amibroker DDE route but it is no good without backfill.
Zerodha has already played around with NOW and RT feed into Amibroker, am sure it shouldn't be a big deal for them if they go about it in a hush-hush, clandestine manner
The only issue is CAG getting wind of it and calling it another scam of gargantuan proportions where data from MCX was distributed at throwaway prices causing a loss of XXXXX amount to MCX and XXXX amount to the exchequer in the name of service tax had it been billed and accounted for