Bigcharts for spreadbetting

[ctrimble]

Does anyone use Bigcharts.com? I have been paper-trading the Dow using them for a few weeks. You have to keep refreshing the page, but I thought that when you did so, the prices were real-time.
Now, however, I read at the bottom of the Bigcharts page, that all intraday data is delayed 20 minutes. Can anyone tell me if this is really so, as when I refresh the page, the price always seems to fall midway between the Buy/Sell range given on various spreadbetting sites such as IG Index and so looks as if it is real-time.
If Bigcharts in not real-time, does anyone know of any free sites which do give real-time prices for the Dow, along with technical indicators, and if not who offers this service at the best price?


Thanks,
CT.

 

[rossored]

I'm pretty sure Bigcharts is live (or very close to it) for the US markets, but it certainly is delayed for the UK markets.

Another one that's pretty close to live I think is FutureSource

However, I've never used either of these for anything other than historic data, so I'm quite prepared for someone to prove me wrong

 

[gmca686]

Bigcharts is real time for US indices. Look at the top right of the chart when you refresh where it shows a time. That is the time of the data update. For US indices it is real time. You can easily measure the delay to data for other info. Although I have 2 live feeds which I pay for, I still like the feel of Bigcharts so do use them.
regards, G McA