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Re: CSI - a disappointment



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Hi Phil,

Try Quotes Plus: www.qp2.com - I don't think you'll be disappointed.  Plus
there is a large user community that can help with scans, if you can't find
what you're looking for.

Good Trading,

_| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _|
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Lane" <patterntrader@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List, Omega" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 12:05 PM
Subject: CSI - a disappointment


> Ordered up the US stocks database. I guess the data is great - but the
> scanning feature is useless - and therefore so is my investment.
>
> What i'd like to do is simple: Would like to sort stocks for 200-day
percent
> price change (very similar to IBD Relative Strength) and also filter them
to
> exclude stocks with < 100K average trading volume. I don't think that's
> asking for much!
>
> But their scanner only can look at canned stuff (undefined) such as
> "momentum" and the max window is 99 days. It says 100 days but it's really
> 99. And it can only filter on whatever you scan for, not something
unrelated
> like average trading volume.
>
> Would further like to use the scan results to make a "portfolio" and then
> "export" it as CSI data for use in tradestation. (even though the data is
> from CSI, evidently it has to be exported as "CSI data" before TS can read
> it). But I can't find any way to take the scan results (even if they were
> useful) and make a portfolio out of it.
>
> To top it all off, when do you think traders have time to work on their
> database? On the weekends. So guess when their tech support is closed? On
> the weekend!
>
> sadly,
> phil
>
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