Setup: Connection TransAct Futures

The following steps need to be taken to have Ensign Windows work with the TransAct Futures data feed:

• Download and install the latest version of TransAct AT or affiliate software.  On the main screen caption of your TransAct (or TransAct Partnership) software is a version date.  You need Version 4.2.3 or later.
• Download the latest Ensign Windows version and the latest version of the Ensign Data Server (EDS).  You need to download both programs from the Ensign web site.  Click this link to go to the Download page.
• Run Ensign Windows
• Click on menu Setup | Connection
• Type in your TransAct User ID, Password, Account # and Reconnect time (hh:mm format) in the frame for TransAct Futures.   Check the TransAct Futures check box to start the TransAct feed.  
• The TransAct feed may be used simultaneously with another vendor's feed, and with the FXCM feed.   For example, you could have feeds from TransAct, Open Tick and FXCM being processed simultaneously.

Symbols:

The symbol universe on your TransAct account will automatically be fed to Ensign Windows.   Click the  button on the main tool bar to open a quote page.  Click the Futures button on the bottom of the quote page to show the Futures market group page.  The TransAct symbols will show on the Futures quote page and have an = sign character prefix so the TransAct symbols will not be confused with futures symbols from another data vendor, such as those from Open Tick, eSignal, IQFeed, or Interactive Brokers.

Add to the Setup | Manager list those symbols that you want to collect data into the Ensign database for charting.

Notes of interest for TransAct:
Bid/Ask:  The Bid and Ask in Ensign may not match the TransAct AT screen.  We do not receive the full market depth that the TransAct AT receives.  Even if we did, we only pull the zero-eth element of the entire array, which "should" be the Best Bid and Best Ask but may not be.  Suffice it to say, we are displaying exactly what TransAct wants us to display.