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To: XBrit who wrote (4433)	7/21/2001 7:30:02 PM
From: Fundamentls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6873

I use QCharts from Quote.com; the charting and alerts are very good (and I know some who switched to other services when the feed problems were at their worst, and came back for the charting). Ravenquote is also quite good although I found I didn't like the way alerts worked; the advantage of Ravenquote is that you have a choice of Qfeed (from quote.com) or Esignal for the feed, and I'm told Esignal is more reliable. (Not sure if they have Esignal up yet, but they were expecting it around now). The disadvantage (to me) of Ravenquote is that alerts are only triggered if they are in your current workspace; Qcharts allows you to keep alerts in multiple workspaces and they'll trigger even if the workspace isn't active (this is great if you want alerts on buy/sell points of stocks you are not actively tracking). Qcharts feed problems were pretty horrible for a while but seem to have gotten much better (though not perfect) in the last couple of months; I'd agree with the other comments posted by others on this issue. I can live with it now. I think they underestimated how many more bid/ask changes they would get with decimalization, and their servers just got swamped. If cost is not an issue, you can probably find a better feed, but I stick with qcharts for the charting and alerts. Regards, Fund