Ayetee:
AIQ was the caddy of TA software back in the 1980s, and it cost a fortune...I paid $1500 Cdn for my package in 1989 - second hand! This is the DOS version. I have the full blown version with options trading analysis. The price has now come down and they now have a windows version, which I tried and didn't like, so I still use the DOS version, but I have abandoned the options trading. Requires too much time for someone with a full time job, plus the data feed was too damn costly. I now use a very cheap data feed, but it's a bit cumbersome, requiring manual intervention. You don't really want this with Charting/TA software. I'm a bit old fashioned and a cheapskate to boot.
I love the DOS version for my purposes, but I know it's time is limited. From Gary's posts, he's keen on WoWSt. so I would tend to go with his recommendation. Personally, I'm looking at the Internet sites and the one for which I gave the url a few posts back is pretty good.
I'm not a short term trader, so my use of TA is limited. I use it to help me decide on buy/sell points and to alert me to accumulation and distribution and to identify key support and resistance price levels for the little trading that I do undertake. So my needs are for price charts, channel bands, moving averages, volume and a/d or moneyflow, even though AIQ gives me 26 technical indicators at my fingertips. A trader would like to have available the stochastics and momentum indicators and stuff that Gary talks about.
Hope this helps.
Casey |
