Herman,
The best stock scanning service I've used is Trade Ideas (www.trade-ideas.com).
All of their scans are pre-defined, so they are not nearly as flexible
as AmiBroker. However they recognize some difficult to program chart
patterns like consolidation areas, wedges, double tops/bottoms, support
and resistance areas, and pullbacks. It's a live intraday scanner that
is constantly scanning all the exchanges you specify for the conditions
you specify. The alerts are sent in real-time to your computer in a
browser or their front-end application.
The big advantage that I found is that it does not use much CPU
and it's able to scan a much larger universe of stocks than I could on
my local PC. The only problem I had was that it would return too many
alerts. I had to really narrow the of focus of the scans to limit the
alerts. I switched to trading futures about 4 years ago, so I've not
used Trade Ideas since then. I can only assume they've improved.
Regards,
David
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Herman <psytek@xxx> wrote:
>
> Real-Time scanning of a large number of stocks is complicated by
the
> ticker quota set by the data provider, internet BW, and the
limited
> processing power most of us must work with.
>
> I am looking for an Internet based service that will automatically
scan
> 1000-2000 tickers, in real time, at set intervals (>5 Sec.
Intervals).
> Not sure how the results would be passed to me... perhaps by email
or to
> be downloaded from a website.
>
> Is anyone using this idea?
>
> thanks,
> herman
>