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Alton Stephens wrote:
> Lionel, I am a satisfied user of QP and am going to wean myself from TS
> data- right now I mainly use it for intraday looks at work, and to feed AIQ.
> But QP converts to Metastock, as you know, and has the terrific Virtual
> Metastock capability too.
>
> Advanced GET is going to go to QP direct read, and QP and AIQ are working
> together to get an easy data interface going.
>
> Gann Trader reads MS and maybe someday it will read QP or QP will convert
> for GT.
>
> All in all, I feel close to being ready to dump Telescan and Worden Bros in
> favor of QP only.
>
> Alton Stephens
> astephen@xxxxxxxx
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lionel Issen
> > Sent: Thursday, August 13, 1998 2:33 PM
> > To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Christian Payen
> > Subject: Re: Telescan
> >
> >
> > Guys:
> >
> > After the July 4th weekend snafu downloading data at less than 5% of the
> > normal speed, I got completely fed up with Telescan. Following the
> > recommendations on this listserver, I switched to Quotes Plus 2. Its 1/2
> > the price, the data is cleaner, and I dont have to pay for
> > searches (called
> > scans). It seems to work well with ms. While I'm still learning
> > how to use
> > the program, it has interesting capabilities that might overcome
> > some of the
> > limitations of ms.
> >
> > The downside is that the hard copy manual is quite skimpy, the online help
> > is good, but you have to do a bit of searching to find it all.
> > The program
> > consist of several independent modules, unlike ms where everything is
> > accessible from the main metastock window.
> >
> > Lionel
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christian Payen <zoby@xxxxxxx>
> > To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thursday, August 13, 1998 10:11 AM
> > Subject: Re: Telescan
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >Bill Saxon wrote:
> > >
> > >> Things have just been going too smoothly with these people. I knew it
> > couldn't
> > >> last. I downloaded fine with AIQ but Equis Downloader give repeated
> > "Network
> > >> Logon Failed". Anyone else have any problem. It is possible the files
> > became
> > >> corrupted and Telescan thinks I have already received the data.... or
> > >> something. I'm sure Telescan is not at fault.<]:0)
> > >
> > > I have the same problem and the quality of the data is getting
> > worse and
> > worse.
> > >Christian.
> > >
> > >
> >
Hi Alton, great minds must think alike. I have AIQ , Metastock and GET, and
effective August 1, terminated my Telescan service. I use QP+ to feed
Metastock/Get, and import updates from Metastock into AIQ for selected tickers
(on watch lists and from QP scans).
Jan
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