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Strategies & Market Trends : Swing Trading With Options
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To: underdog430 who started this subject7/25/2001 2:22:18 PM
From: underdog430   of 88
 
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I've been using QCharts for over a year now and while it was useless when decimalization occurred, I think that service has returned to reasonable reliability. I upgraded my subscription package from the $79.95 basic package to the $99.95 intermediate package to get the option montage. Yes, eSignal probably is more reliable but it's also much more expensive ($185/mo. if you want options) and I just didn't like the interface/charting. You could just subscribe to options data through the CBOE for only $19.95/mo. (or $14.95/mo. for aggregation quotes or $7.00/mo. for snapshot quotes) but I need charting too and the QCharts package includes things like implied volatility, delta, etc.

You notice immediately that the option montage in QCharts takes forever to load. Once it gets going it seems fine but opening a workspace with an option montage or just opening a new option montage is really slow. It took a while longer before I realized that the bid/ask spread column was useless - the data is just clearly wrong when compared to the bid/ask prices. That's too bad because the bid/ask spread column showed a lot of spreads (for options on the QQQ) of zero, five cents, and ten cents while the actual spreads are more like five cents to twenty cents (mostly about ten cents for near term options). Nevertheless, things seem to be working alright.
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