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Written clarification requested: CME market data usage, automated processing and data rete
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| [2026-09-07 14:24:57] |
| flaminius - Posts: 1 |
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Hello Sierra Chart Support, I am requesting written clarification regarding the permitted use of CME market data received through my current Sierra Chart / Denali Exchange Data Feed subscription. I use Sierra Chart for personal trading/research and I am developing personal analysis software which processes market data locally on my own computer. Before proceeding further, I would like to make sure that my intended use complies with my current Sierra Chart and CME market data agreements. Could you please provide written answers to the following questions: 1. Does my current subscription and CME market data entitlement permit automated processing of CME market data by external software running locally on my computer, outside of the Sierra Chart application? 2. Is my account currently classified as Professional or Non-Professional for CME market data purposes, and on what basis is that classification determined? 3. If external software automatically analyzes the CME data and generates trading signals or decision-support information, but does NOT automatically submit orders, is this considered Non-Display Usage under my current entitlement? 4. If the software later automatically submits trading orders based on that analysis, is this considered a different category of usage? If so, what additional agreement, entitlement or license would be required? 5. Sierra Chart stores received market data locally in .scid files. May I retain these raw .scid files indefinitely on my own computer for personal research and analysis? 6. Are derived features or statistics that do not allow reconstruction of the original raw market data subject to different retention or usage conditions from the raw market data? 7. Is backup of the raw .scid data and/or derived data to external storage or private cloud storage permitted under my current agreements? 8. Which, if any, of the activities described above would require a change in my Professional/Non-Professional classification, market data entitlement, agreement, or an additional license? If an additional license is required, please indicate the applicable type and current cost. For each answer, if possible, please also provide the applicable Sierra Chart or CME document, policy, agreement, or contractual provision. I am specifically requesting written clarification so that I can retain your response as a compliance reference before expanding the software beyond personal research. Thank you for your assistance. |
| [2026-09-07 16:29:42] |
| Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 25262 |
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Our answer is that none of this is permitted. Do not use the market data provided by Sierra Chart outside of Sierra Chart, or outside of the Sierra Chart built-in functionality. You should not be able to technically do this anyway. If you do this you can be held liable for any penalties imposed by the exchanges and you have already agreed to this by the use of Sierra Chart. For what you want to do you need to contact the exchange. All of your questions need to be made to the exchange and you need to have an agreement with the exchange and obtain the data from some other provider. Not from Sierra Chart. All of this is already stated, in our license agreement: Sierra Chart License Agreement: DATA LICENSE Sierra Chart License Agreement: THIRD PARTY COMPLIANCE Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing Date Time Of Last Edit: 2026-09-07 16:30:16
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| [2026-09-07 20:04:37] |
| FuturesBod - Posts: 31 |
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I assume you saw my similar thread here: Commercial ACSIL study with local desktop-app dependency From reading the CME data licensing for a normal, non-professional retail user, my understanding of the situation is: **FORBIDDEN OUTSIDE OF SIERRA/ACSIL ** - Any live CME data (last traded price, bid/ask, etc.) - Any data that could be used to derive live data (e.g. live position PnL) - Automated/Semi-automated/Manual order commands that open, close or amend orders/positions **ALLOWED OUTSIDE OF SIERRA/ACSIL** - Order fill information (quantity, and price of transaction) - Current position Size - Calculations based on that static information sent to Sierra/ACSIL So an external app is allowed to ask for the fills and current position because that is static 'account state data', but you can't be accessing live data or any data that allows you to derive live data, and you cannot be issuing orders (manually or automated) from it. So keep the price data and orders within Sierra/ACSIL, but I believe one *can* use position data and order fills externally. I trust Sierra will correct me here if this is wrong. |
| [2026-09-14 15:48:05] |
| Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 25262 |
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This is completely fine to be performed outside of Sierra Chart: - Automated/Semi-automated/Manual order commands that open, close or amend orders/positions
Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing Date Time Of Last Edit: 2026-09-14 15:48:13
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