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I'm curious to hear more about Neoticker from
folks who've actually used it. In particular,
I'm interested in the pattern search deal.
Thanks,
BW
>From: "Gary Fritz" <fritz@xxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: fritz@xxxxxxxx
>To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: RANKINGS was Is it time to find a BETTER toolbox?
>Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:22:53 -0600
>
> > What I am saying here is that if I had the balls to
> > translate my Easylanguage routines that my first pick
> > would be Metastock.
>
>I've looked into this, and several friends of mine have been using
>Metastock for quite a while. It has nice charting features but its
>language is really crude and limited. Several of my local Metastock
>friends have ended up buying TS4 or TS2k so they could experiment
>with things they just can't express (or can't express without extreme
>pain) in Metastock.
>
>So I wouldn't put that at #1 unless you plan to do all your work in
>DLL's, and I strongly suspect you will be limited with what you can
>do then. (Because the DLL's won't be hooked into the guts of the
>Metastock engine the way the MS language is.)
>
>On the other hand, several people have written plug-in additions for
>MS to do things like portfolio testing, and I think you drive those
>with DLL code. So maybe with add-ins like that, MS could be a
>reasonable alternative. Maybe.
>
> > #2 Neoticker (never used, just based upon your words)
>
>This one looks promising, and Lawrence seems very willing to work
>with users to improve it. They've just released the realtime
>version. You can use VBscript, Javascript, or Delphiscript, so the
>language should be no problem as long as they've thought out the data
>model & libraries properly. The portfolio testing capabilities seem
>very limited, though. As far as I can tell, you can run a system on
>a basket of symbols, but I don't see any decent portfolio reports and
>statistics, or portfolio optimization features. That might be there
>and I just didn't see it.
>
> > #4 http://www.Ravenquote.com
>
>This has no backtesting capabilities, does it? I think it's just a
>feature-rich charting app with scanning capabilities.
>
> > #4 http://www.cqg.com
>
>Could be useful, but the programming language is very cryptic and
>somewhat limited. And you're tied into one data vendor, excellent
>though CQG may be.
>
> > #5 Tradestation 2000i
>
>No thanks.
>
> > #6 http://www.linnsoft.com
>
>Can't tell for sure, but the language looks pretty primitive. No
>portfolio capabilities.
>
> > #7 http://www.lmt-expo.com
>
>This appears to be based on Unix, except the student/academic
>version. No indication of cost. Looks like it has a lot of powerful
>math support, but I think the programming language may be basic Excel-
>like functions. Hard to tell what the feature set is.
>
>
>Someone recently pointed me to http://www.wealth-lab.com. This is an
>interesting "trading community" site that supports an online system
>testing facility. Some people have been nervous about the site, not
>wanting to submit their system code to a website. But it turns out
>there is also a stand-alone "desktop" version, and they are actively
>working to improve it. Currently stocks only, but futures are
>coming. They say by the end of the year they'll have portfolio-
>testing capabilities to match anything Trading Recipes can offer,
>which is saying a LOT. Not bad for $300, and there is a free
>downloadable demo. I haven't tried it yet.
>
>http://www.amibroker.com/ has a lot of fans, but so far it's only
>EOD, and I think stocks only. Realtime is scheduled for the end of
>the year. Portfolio testing is supposed to be possible. No examples
>of the language but it's supposed to be extensible with
>VBscript/Jscript. Only $69.
>
>Gary
>
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