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Dave DeLuca wrote:
> Something to consider - QCollector and Quote.com.
>
Thanks for the info, Dave. The product looks very interesting, but I have
one problem with using quote.com. Unless things have changed there, they
only give all-session pricing for stocks and futures. For those of us
trading on short term pattern recognition, accurate OpenHighLowClose in
day-session only pricing is critical to our trade set up analysis. Also,
getting the people on line at quote.com to answer even the simplest request
is near impossible. When I've sent their cust serv dept questions in the
past, they either went unanswered altogether, or were answered by someone
who really hadn't even read my question correctly.
If you have a better contact there than I would otherwise have, and can
ascertain if there product has developed past this all-session pricing to
include now day-session only pricing, I would be eager to hear it and try
your product.
thanks,
Mark Scheier
>
> If you have a subscription to Quote.com ($79/mon) you can use
> QCollector - http://www.mechtrading.com/qollector/index.htm - to
> download and save EOD or intraday data in MetaStock format. Quote.com
> has a huge universe of symbols - stocks, indexes, futures, mutual
> funds - and historical data going back years. QCollector makes it easy
> to manage your MetaStock directories and will even do an automated
> download for you at a specific time each day.
>
> A new feature with QCollector 2.0 is automatic timed updates on
> intervals as frequent as every 10 seconds. If you have a way to
> automatically reload your MetaStock charts, such as with a macro
> program, you can turn your EOD MetaStock into a close aproximation of a
> real-time charting application. Some QCollector users are already doing
> this with TradeStation. I'm still looking into ways of doing this with
> MetaStock - any feedback would be appreciated.
>
> Dave DeLuca
> Tradeworks Software
> http://www.mechtrading.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of scheier
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 7:20 AM
> > To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: automating Metastock
> >
> >
> > Walter, in the world of XL programmers that you frequent, has
> > anybody automated
> > the process of downloading an internet EOD ascii data file
> > into XL, order the
> > columns to fit requirements, and merge it into current
> > metastock directories so
> > that the whole thing is reduced to a couple of WinScript actions?
> >
> > Mark Scheier
> >
> > The early availability of eod stock data from this site
> > stockhistory.com
> > (updated every hour) makes the possibility of running system
> > scans that much
> > earlier in the afternoon all the more attractive.
> >
> > Walter Lake wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Moshe and others who wrote.
> > >
> > > Sorry ... I don't know much about automating Metastock actions and
> > > procedures.
> > >
> > > Metastock has recently released access to their program for
> > users and
> > > outside programmers, I'm sure that Ton or others can tell
> > you more about
> > > that. I don't know of anything that has been written that
> > is available as an
> > > add-on.
> > >
> > > Most of the work that I see is in Excel and VBA. Some VB
> > stuff is available.
> > > We are still in the very early stages of Metastock/Excel
> > integration.
> > >
> > > There seems to be several groups of users: occasional
> > users, stock scanners
> > > and futures/index traders, etc. Each have their own trading system
> > > development / testing needs.
> > >
> > > Now that the Y2K problem is over, most of the users that I
> > hear from expect
> > > Metastock to be a stable end-of-the line product that is
> > just fine the way
> > > it is. Very little effort is going into new indicator
> > development and
> > > traditional indicator systems. Other areas are being integrated.
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > > Walter
> >
> >
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