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PureBytes Links
Trading Reference Links
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Dark,
AIQ (http://www.aiq.com), VectorVest (http://vectorvest.com), and John
Bollinger's EquityTrader web site (http://www.equitytrader.com) are places
you may look for top down, stock filtering approaches somewhat similar to
ProSearch.
Neil
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Dark Hacker [mailto:hacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
| Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 9:51 PM
| To: Omega List
| Subject: Scanning and screening
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| All,
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| This is somewhat off topic however I suspect some of you may have
| an answer. I'm at the end of my tether with Telescan, a product
| which performs searching and screening of equities using software
| they call Prosearch. Prosearch consists of a client piece running
| on your home machine, and a database search engine located on
| Telescan's server which performs the actual screening.
| Their symbol
| universe is quite broad and the Prosearch engine offers a very
| comprehensive set of criteria for performing searches. Note that
| this differs from Tradestation in that you don't need to know the
| equities ahead of time. Very top-down.
|
| So Prosearch is actually pretty good, however the overall quality
| of their software, charting and other features suck eggs.
|
| I've been a Telescan user for five years now and they still haven't
| produced a quality product in my opinion. Meanwhile, instead of
| providing free fixes to their customers they have loaded their
| products up with all manner of features and gizmos. And each new
| release of the client just increases the fragility and hairballs
| clogging the software.
|
| Sound familiar? I think Bill Cruz could take lessons from the guys
| at Telescan.
|
| Telescan is just not adequate to tackle the big boy world of
| trading. So my question to those of you who do screen the equities
| universe for trades is:
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| Are there any competing products out there that offer more
| robust software and as broad a symbol universe and
| comprehensive search facility for equities as Telescan?
|
| - Hacker
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