This is to say, "Goodbye Gibbons and MichaelP"...
For those on this thread who haven't met Gibbons or Michael, or studied their posts here and on the OneList e-mail thread, let me spend a minute bringing you up to date.
I started communicating with Gibbons and Michael about a year ago when I started using QCharts and QFeed. Gibbons is (until Monday) the major driving force behind QCharts. Michael was the key developer for QCharts until he left on November 30th.
In the last year, they took QCharts from the "nice product" to a position where QCharts has challenged and soundly beaten such prominent names as eSignal and DTN. In that short period of time, they've created a powerful, elegant tool that has become THE benchmark for real-time data presentation. Easy to use, fast and smooth.
Regarding Michael, I've never met him, but had many e-mail "conversations" over the past several months. Michael's drive was toward a simple, compact, elegant trading tool. Like Gibbons (see below), Michael didn't care where ideas came from as long as they were good ones. As a QCharts user and QFeed developer, I (like many users) made suggestions about improvements. In many cases, these improvements would appear in QCharts DAYS later! In several cases where a significant bug popped up, the fix was on the website THE SAME DAY! I've had e-mail responses from him at all hours of the day and night, weekdays and weekends. So Michael's exit is a great loss for Quote.com. But, the good news, he went over to work for the Advanced Get folks. So we'll see great improvements in their software.
Regarding Gibbons, I had the good fortune to meet and have lunch with him at the Day Trading Expo in California this year. I also watched him discuss QCharts with several interested traders at the QCharts booth. (He looks like a college professor.) He is an amazing gentleman...
Gibbons has an incredible depth of knowledge on equities and futures trading. In addition, he has an in-depth understanding of the technical issues that we face. What is interesting is that, in an industry filled with mendacity ("B...S...") and strong egos, Gibbons still kept his sense of humor, emotional balance and humility. Where most people dodge issues, hedge their answers or just plain prevaricate, Gibbons lays it on the line. His candor is amazing. If he is wrong, he admits it. If Quote.com is wrong, he admits it. Many people can be open and honest when there's not much at stake. But candor when the going gets tough requires courage. Gibbons is honest even when honesty could hurt him. That is true courage!
Gibbons and Michael, I wish you the best of luck in the future. |
