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Daniel,
Ismael (XLTOPS owner) is not out of business (although his web site is off
line). I can give you the web address to order XLTOPS if you like.
If I recall, he gave you (or was it me?) a perfectly good explanation on how
to use QP data with XLTOPS. All you have to do is load the QP data into an
array and then you could use the XLTOPS functions on that array.
But of course this might require a little time, effort and learning.
Peter Gialames
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daniel Martinez
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 12:19 AM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: QP2.x Alternatives.
There are at least 2 things QP should improve on. Their scanning program
and
Excel support. Their scanning program is basically 3 years old. It doesn't
support array's, strings, or global variables. The arrays should be able to
hold tickers, or numbers. It doesn't support string comparisons such as "IF
symbol="INTC" THEN" or "IF IndustrySector ="Capital Goods &Services" THEN".
Global variables would be for storing data from symbol to the next during a
scan. For example, you should be to have an array which stores symbols,
then be
able to do calculations based on relative strength comparisons. A relative
strength comparison with !COMP would be useful.
Even though you can access QP 2.2 in Excel, there are no TA functions
available. It is a major bother finding, debugging, and setting up a
function
library. XLTOPS was a TA library for Excel but it wasn't tailored to access
QP
data. Unfortunately, they went out of business. If QP had a robust
scanner,
you wouldn't even need Excel.
Daniel.
Peter Gialames wrote:
> PowerInvestor screens fundamentals, PowerTech screens technicals. I used
> this about 2 years ago and found their data to be awful.
>
> I don't think you can get PowerTech without purchasing PowerInvestor (that
> was my experience two years ago so this might have changed). And both
> programs are separate - you can't screen fundamentals in PowerTech or scan
> technicals in PowerInvestor (again an experience of mine that might have
> changed in two years).
>
> The scanning program in PowerInvestor was nice - a VB type application.
It
> was very slow though and with the data problem was not very reliable.
>
> As far as QP pricing structure goes - this change has been in place for
> almost a year now. Are you saying that you have a problem paying $7/month
> ($84/year) more than you were originally? I've told you my experience
with
> AAII and you get what you pay for - QP is worth the extra $7.
>
> As far as Lionel's post - while I agree that there has not been a more
> active voice from tech support, I do not agree with his statement that it
is
> deteriorating. While they do not answer all questions publicly on the QP
> list (I have yet to see Lionel ask one public ally), I have found them to
be
> very responsive to questions.
>
> Lionel said that he finds their responses to be "a bit snotty" and I would
> ask for an example. Maybe he received something privately, but I totally
> disagree with him on this.
>
> As far as TC2000 goes check http://home.earthlink.net/~jfritch/TC2000.html
> for an evaluation. John Fritch has some doubts about QP awhile back and
did
> some comparing.
>
> This is just my opinion and as you can tell I am very happy with QP. If
you
> are not there are other data vendors out there. There has even been some
> praise for Reuters from a very active QP user.
>
> Again ... just my opinion,
> Peter Gialames
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