I've been using Falcon for the past few months, which is when i started out, more out of a lack of awareness of any other alternatives than anything else.
So far, it has worked out okay. Nothing great. But not too bad.
I like that it has a Pattern Search feature. Which can search in real time the stocks that match a given criteria. I wanted to ask if this feature is available if you use Amibroker with an esignal feed?
Other than that the other good features are Tick Level data, Action watch window (which keeps updating with stocks that are making new highs, new lows, etc), you can apply indicators on intra day time frames (1,3,5,15,30 and 60 minutes); The price alert feature is fairly reliable, and can give you alerts when a specific price on any instrument shows up in real time.
However, you cannot run your own trading system which will give you buy and sell signals. You cannot perform backtesting, or portfolio optimization. And there are no alerts based on drawing objects placed on the chart.
I wanted to ask the other users here, if the drawbacks mentioned above can be avoided by using some other combination of software and feed provider?
Lastly, these features and drawbacks are for the Falcon version before Falcon 7. As per my knowledge, Falcon 7 has been launched in Mumbai, but they are yet to roll it out in other cities, though they plan to do it within this month.