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It's a nice little charting application, surprisingly easy to use and very
easy to work with multiple time frames. The ability to produce the ratio
chart I posted here was a bit of a surprise. Includes the usual complement
of indicators and alerts, however drawing tools will not be included until
the next release due in a few weeks. While I have both an indexes and a
funds workspace, my primary use is for futures trading. I have separate
workspaces setup for pit traded (day) and electronic traded (all sessions)
and each includes quote page and 3 charts which are spread across 2
monitors. The 3 charts are locked for interval and unlocked for symbol -
clicking a symbol on the quote page brings that symbol into all 3 charts.
You can run streaming tick charts on up to standard or custom minute time
frames e.g. 120 minute for electronic traded futures as well as daily,
weekly, monthly. No continuous contracts and the EOD futures data is not
reliable for futures with extended trading hours. Each workspace is named
and saved and can be reopened. There is no "recovery" - shut down, lose
connection, take a vacation, or whatever you like; when you log back in the
charts are immediately rebuilt and brought up to date. Want Time and Sales
for 7 hours ago, just load a T&S page and scroll back a bit and it will be
filled in a few seconds.
Not unique to QCharts but depending on your objectives and time frame you
trade you may or may not need to pay exchange fees. CME: e-mini and all
currencies are provided real-time without fees and everything else (meats
and lumber) is 10 minute streaming delay, CBOT: nothing is free and
everything is 10 minute snapshot delay (data for period ending 10 prior is
transmitted in bulk every 10 minutes so data is 10-20 minutes delayed), NY
exchanges are all 30 minute delay streaming. I don't know what mid-am fees
are but might work for you.
Earl
-----Original Message-----
From: OkieDame@xxxxxxx <OkieDame@xxxxxxx>
To: eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>; realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: DBC vs Quote.com
>I understand QCharts is a stand alone program, not reliant on your browser.
>I have seen many mention how reliable their QChart service is. While we're
>on the topic of QCharts, could you tell me how versatile the charting is
for
>futures. Does it have tick and intraday data and can it be recovered from
>previous sessions? As a "not yet successful" trader, I was thinking of
>QCharts w/MidAm exchange. At least I could get a flavor of several
different
>markets at a more reasonable cost. Do you have any thoughts on this idea?
>Thank you.
>joanie
>
>In a message dated 4/15/99 4:50:34 PM Central Daylight Time,
>
>eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
><< QCharts has its limits but the reliability has been amazing to me.
>Yesterday
> afternoon and again this morning, SOL stopped receiving and I was unable
to
> log onto Yahoo! and several other high volume internet sites but QCharts
> just kept ticking.
>
> Earl >>
>
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