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You may be able to get by without qcharts at all by using the IB datafeed.
Another inexpensive addition to that is scmagic, which provides backup data
for futures contracts.
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From: "steinington" <steinington@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 8:05 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: new member of AB
> Hi, all, I finally saw the light and am switching from metastock and
> supercharts to AB. I can't imagine what took me so long. I've been
> fiddling with AB now for a week and it's awesome and I haven't even begun
> to
> feel out the depths of hte software, particularly the developers kit and
> automation.
>
> I've been pretty much able to get most of my indicators working, just
> through reading the User's Guide and looking at examples in the Support
> area
> I do have a few questions and would be apreciate any help or guidance
> where
> to look.
>
> My set up is as follows. I've got AB Pro. I subscribe to qcharts and
> quotes-plus.
> I intend to trade the emini, possibly eventually through automation.
>
> What I'm wondering what solutions choices have been made by people with
> similar setup.
>
> 1.For instance, do you use two instances of AB, one for QCharts, intraday
> and One for QuotesPlus for EndOfDay, or is it better to create two
> separate
> databases and then switch form one to the other?
>
> 2. I assume it's best to enable local data for Qcharts but not for Q+ as
> AB
> can read Q+ directly.
>
> 3. In terms of performance how many bars should one load using 1 minute.
> The example has 30000 but I find this doesn't give enough bars when you
> switch to daily charts. I also switched to 1 second on the refresh, but is
> that overkill? I assume faster the better. I know different traders have
> different needs but is there any harm by going to 1 second. And also
> while
> I'm on speed, is there a way to check server delay and switch or lock
> servers the way you can with QCharts?
>
> 4. I noticed there is no time and sales. Is that a feature not available
> to
> QCharts plug in?
>
> 5. Is there an easy way to populate the database with a complete set of
> symbols sector and industry categories for either QCharts or Q+ by loading
> a
> file?
>
> 6. I'm unable to load expired emini contracts to chart. I assume that's
> because qcharts just sends blank data unless you ask for enough bars back.
> Is there a workaround or do you have to load a huge of bars to get the 1
> minute data, say on a 2000 expiry?
>
> 7. Finally I'm curious if anyof you who came to AB from situation whether
> you kept same data providers or switched. For instance do you really need
> quotes plus? I do use it for some of the fundamental data and I see that
> it
> has better end of day info than QCharts but maybe Yahoo is just as good.
>
> I realise that I have asked quite a few questions many of which I will
> probably be able to answer through a dilligent search of the archives but
> will be thankful ifanyone wants to tackle any individual question
> briefly.
>
> At any rate I look forward to being in this community of traders and
> hopefully can make my contribution as well. I can't imagine why anyone is
> using Metastock or Tradestation. AB is a wonderfully versatile piece of
> software.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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