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Hello Whitney
There's been a lot of buzz over the past 3 years about
the features of Quotes Plus vs TC2000
and other products so a search in the archives will
help you. Here's what I think
One of the few attributes of FT that separates it
from Quotes Plus is the 1) quality of the
mutual fund data and the 2) amount of work that's been
done using a shareware product
called TRADE, as well as the community of users who
continue to contribute strategies
and trading systems based on TRADE. These
strategies were based primarily on
mutual funds although since Eliot Spitzer's witch-hunt
in NY State on mutual fund companies, the strategies
are gradually changing to the use of ETFs. There
are some folks who are skilled enough in
programming AFL that TRADE offers them no
advantage. Some gradual progress is being made
in converting TRADE strategies to AFL. See a fee
paid site called FT-Talk. The mutual fund data
in FT is adjusted for distributions and more than one person in the FT organization will spend
time manually correcting any missing or
incorrect data. Quotes Plus currently responding to errors and
oversights in the data but difficult to go back and adjust some of the
mutual funds.
Unless you're a big user of mutual funds for your
investment strategy, and it doesn't sound like
you are, I don't think you'd be well served
to change from a QP subscription to FT. I use both with the
FT
data serving as the data source for market signal
strategies.
For example, what
FT won't provide is 1) stock data (with
OHLC or volume) 2) fundamental data 3) indices !ID001
to !ID150. Well, it does provide stock data but
no one that I know uses it. Also, you might check on this,
but
if I remember correctly the way the database is
organized it only carries the stock Close, no OHL or volume.
Worked
for mutual funds but not stocks.
Best regards
Joe
BTW...Front running by anyone is BAD, and
I applaud Elliott for nailing those guys who were caught doing
it. That's not
to say I believe they're not doing it anymore, only
being more careful.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:24
PM
Subject: [amibroker] Fasttrack vs
QuotesPlus
I am currently using QuotesPlus for stock data and am wondering if
I
would be better served (in AmiBroker) by switching to Fasttrack?
A
key need of mine is the ability to maintain breadth measures
(with
AddToComposite) on the type of issue involved -- such as ETF, bond
fund,
Optionable -- as well as on the basis of the exchange the issues
trade
in and their sector / industry. At the moment I can do all of
this
with the QP data using their daily QP Scans feature, automated
in
WinXP as a Scheduled Task.
Can the same goal be accomplished with
Fasttrack?
What other comparison/contrast are reasonable between
Fasttrack and
QuotesPlus?
TIA,
Whitne
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