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Non-Tech : Quote.com QCharts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Megert who wrote (12711)	2/26/2001 1:03:22 PM
From: pooh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17977

John, good point, but the NexTrend set-up is not my idea of an ideal system. It does take a while to get used to the set up, and it takes complicated steps to do it. Couple examples for illustrations: 1. To move a field (symbol, bid, ask ...) on the quote sheet, qchart let you click the field, hold left button and move. On NexTrend? right click, choose edit mode, choose add element, pick the field to move, click at move up or move down buttons to move it one row at a time. Try to move about 5 fields to get a feeling of it? 2. To add or change moving average lines? Qchart let you do the right click, pick study, then moving average. From there, you can add, remove or edit all moving average line at once in an logically obvious screen then click OK. NexTrend? right click, get property, pick add element, then study, moving average, choose parameter to set up the type, period, color ..., then chose scale for time increment. Wanting another MA line? go back to beginning and chose add element again. Want to change the parameter? keep clicking at the next element until you find your ma. How's that for simplicity? It would be nice if RQ uses the reliable, professional graded eSignal feed, but I guess it may take them a while. RQ did not take long to develop its system since it uses Qfeed, and qchart provides a developer kits that allow RQ to use its already developed object libraries. That saves RQ most of the development time and cost, thus the cheap monthly fee, which was free at first. If RQ uses eSignal, it has to develop its own code to duplicate its qfeed features. It would take RQ lots of time and money to match up with Qchart libraries, and if I'm not mistaken, RQ has only a handful programmers. And guess what, you will have to pay for both eSignal feed and RQ increased monthly fee, just like you pay for qfeed and its inexpensive fee now. I jumped off the qchart ship, but finally decided to swim back!!! I figure, unless I trade the futures or am an hyperactive daytrader who scalps for 1/4 point with hundred of trades per session, I can stand few seconds delay from qchart. When qchart servers kick me out, I switch to the back-up system. I use it, and keep hating it (qchart, I mean). I'm TRAPPED. <sadly ggg> pooh