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Strategies & Market Trends : TradeStation - Why No thread for this mega product -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Robert V. Cavaleri who wrote (85)	11/28/2000 9:50:44 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 147

I mentioned one in my last post. QCharts / QFeed from Quote.com at 80$ per month plus exchange fees, is pretty darn cheap. You'll need a 300$ (approx) add on from Dynastore but its a very workable solution with hundreds of users out there. There's a EGroups list for Dynastore egroups.com - check that out. HistoryBank.com is end of day only. They do provide intraday data, but not until hours after the market closes. However for systems development, it sufficies. You can add the real time from Quote.co, DBC or others later. I've also used DBC and PCQuote to feed tradestation, both are able, mostly stable, data feeds. You'll pay more than at Quote.com, and whether that is worth it depends largely on your personality and the type of trading that you do. Of the two, I would tend to steer people to DBC if only because, much like Quote.com, you get both data feed and an on-demand charting system (eSignal). If Tradestation should lock up, you have a fall back plan. PCQuote has no bundled charting application, you'd have to also obtain from them RealTick III (ugh!) with a duplication of exchange fees and monthly costs. Having said that, my Tradestation / GlobalServer environment has not locked up in about 16 months... but I do find it very handy to call up ad hoc charts when asked on things I don't normally follow. I think the three options are about the most viable, and commonly used, out there. Regards, Michael