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Did they leave, and take another service? (Just kidding). Apparently
QCharts has worked best with high speed connections, such as cable speeds,
etc. Using 56k dialup has been associated with most of the nightmare
problems. Evidently options are not perfected; but for listed stocks and
futures it seems as good as any other service for the money, and is wide
open to developer add ons, such as XChartMM, and RavenQuote (which will
continually be in development - and has some idiosyncratic inconsistencies
in the process, per its egoup commentaries)
Nextrend has some chart features that QCom does not have, and is a seperate
feed, that is as fast as Qcharts. They both use S&P Comstock data. PCQuote
Orbit may be fast, but is limited in technical indicators. These three are
about the same price $75 monthly, yearly contract not necessary.
Someone asked if Qcom works with Metastock. There is an e-group list for
Dynastore that has a $250 product that is said to allow running of Metastock
6.52 + Professional real time. Qcollector 2.0 sends selected quotes of any
time increment to MS 6.52+ at intervals of your choice down to as fast as
10" for $75. Anyother software was mentioned here earlier last week that
advertises a similar effect.
DTN has data for MS, Ensign, and ESignal for around the same price via
internet, and satellite for $129. And there are others, Linnsoft, LiveWire,
at a similar price.
TradeSignals might be good enough, but I have never succeeded in getting it
to start. If you want to wait until data is collected, Medved Quote Tracker
might help. These last two are free, or close to it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "MikeSuesserott" <MikeSuesserott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 12:19 PM
Subject: AW: Realtime Quote Service
> Brooke,
>
> remember we had some forty to fifty people regularly screaming and kicking
> on that list; don't you agree that the complaints have dried up a lot
> lately? The gentleman you quoted seems to be unaware of Larry's startup
tool
> and the ping tool.
>
> I can assure you I was connected to QCharts/QFeed that very day, like I am
> every day, with (at times) four simultaneous connections to Quote.com,
and,
> by use of the startup tool, had no trouble establishing any of them. I
also
> noticed the charts now come up at much greater speed, the way they used to
> in the good ole days.
>
> This does not mean that Quote.com is perfect by any means, and it is true
> that Level2 and options are as yet unreliable. Customer service is
> understaffed to the point of being almost unreachable, but is fortunately
> rarely needed - if you follow the precautions frequently and repeatedly
> posted by Larry and Alex on that mailing list. To me, the advantages
> prevail. To repeat, these are,
>
> - great charting included at no charge, much superior to ESignal,
> - several years of back data at no cost - Esignal has only a few weeks,
> - delayed data for any market, free of charge,
> - no symbol limit.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> Michael Suesserott
>
>
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