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Re: [amibroker] Re: Comments on Van Tharp courses please



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Jim,

the old guru of MSTA...
I am smiling and happy to read you.

stephane



> 
> 
> > Maybe - BUT how will you know which signals are valid?  Oh yeah - 
you'll
> > know after they fix it (if they do) and your signal disappears or 
your
> trade
> > tanks and you spend countless hours trying to figure out why only 
to
> > discover a bad quote.  But its only money, eh?
> 
> I use quite a bit of breadth data in my system. I was a QP user for 
about 4
> years. Before then I used TC2k, AIQ and a host others. I did lose 
money one
> time (that I know of) because of bad breadth data when I was using 
QP. I
> complained several times on the QP list and other members checked 
into my
> complaints and found them valid. QP beat around the bush for 
several months
> while this was going on and I switched to CSI (I was told later by 
another
> member that QP did finally clean up their breadth data).
> 
> I switched to CSI because of their reputation for clean data. I 
found most
> of their data to be clean (so far as I could tell), but I did find 
quite a
> bit of bad data in their breadth and indices. Not just minor 
indices, but
> even the SPX.
> CSI offers a CSI pen if you make them aware of any discrepancies. I 
have a
> desk full of them.
> 
> I now use a paid data service for my breadth and indices that is 
far cheaper
> then the above two and I get my stocks/ funds from the various free 
data
> sources. I rarely have data issues with the free sources and when I 
do, I
> check with a couple of the other free data sources. This may happen 
one or
> twice a year.
> 
> I am NOT saying this is the way to go for anyone, but it is most 
definitely
> for me. I don't have *full* confidence in my present data sources, 
but I do
> have more confidence in them then I do with some of the paid 
sources.
> 
> Jim



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