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"I had lots of problems with Quotesplus when I used their service."
I've never had a problem with QP's service. Never. Any small technical
glitches I've run into were speedily resolved, but they've been rare, in any
case. I know a lot of people who've found the same thing. It's just a
terrific program with excellent (and always friendly) technical support.
You won't find a better program for custom scanning, in my opinion -- and
one that works as well with Metastock.
I tried TC2000 not long ago, because they had a seminar in the area and
because a friend was using it with his trading system. I thought it might
make a good addition to QP2 and Metastock, but I found the program to be
inadequate and quickly canceled my subscription. Even some of the canned
indicators gave inaccurate values, because of apparent shortcuts in the
formulas (presumably to increase the speed of scans). There's no comparison
between TC2000's scanning program and QP2's. For anyone who writes their own
scans, QP2 is the way to go, in my opinion.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Harels" <harelsdb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: QP2.x Alternatives.
>
> I have used their (AAII) software for a number of years. Exclusively as a
> backup when my data vendor has been out of whack. Fortunately, that has
> been very infrequently lately. Their Power Investor program offers
charting
> with lots of standard canned indicators. However, there are no drawing
> tools, no ability to switch from bar charts to candlesticks and limited
> ability to customize indicators. The database offers very good screening
> for fundementals but nothing for technicals. There is no possibility of
> writting systems or explorations (technical) as there is with metastock.
A
> variety of reports can be printed, but, I know of no way to get them into
a
> format that can be used by excel or other programs. I don't know of any
way
> to get their data into a metastock compatible format, but, I would like to
> hear about it if some one else does. In summary, at 92 $/yr for the
program
> and data, Powerinvestor is a good backup to Metastock and offers good,
> customizable, fundemental screening. I have made buy, hold, sell
decisions
> on a handful of stocks when my data provider has been on the fritz, but it
> is not in the same league as metastock or, perhaps, Quotesplus. I had
lots
> of problems with Quotesplus when I used their service.
>
> Powerinvestor also has another product called "Powertech" or something
like
> that. I have no experience with it. It proportedly has some of the
> technical analysis features offerred by Metastock. My guess is that it is
a
> poor country cousin.
>
> Dan
>
> >From: Daniel Martinez <DanM@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: Equis Metastock ListServ Post <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: QP2.x Alternatives.
> >Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:41:10 -0700
> >
> >QP is raising their prices to $26/mo and including mutual fund data,
> >which I don't use. Also, they will no longer support their Virtual
> >program which differentiates their product from everyone else's. I've
> >been thinking of switching to
> >http://www.powerinvestor.com/PowerInvestor/ . Does anyone here use
> >this service and what is your experience? I've been looking for a
> >forum or ListServ for this product but I can't find one. Is there one
> >available?
> >
> >Daniel.
> >
> >
>
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