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

To: bob wallace who wrote (15279)	1/6/2002 5:53:31 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 17977

I agree with you - early design decisions, and marketing decisions, are a big contributor to the problems at Quote.com. I wonder if they are more design centered issues or marketing? I don't see why Quote.com doesn't limit their symbol count - I think they could count on inertia among their remaining client base to avoid much erosion. Re Erlanger Quote, I think at 80$ a pop, plus Quote.com charges, they will have a hard time building a user base. Generally speaking that's 50$ more a month than all the other alternatives. Quite possibly ego gets in the way of marketing, he should shorton Erlanger Quote to eQuote or something like that lest he get less mention or mispelling of name. Its just too damn long to type. I'll grant that none of the other alternatives quite give Quote.com-like ease of use coupled with user-defined functions. With perhaps one exception - TradeStation Pro - I think they are 99$ a month including exchange, and the TradeStation language is a basic staple for thousands of analysts around the world that used SuperCharts, TS4 and TS2000i. I personally don't like that they use S&P Comstock as their data feed -- I much prefer eSignal's direct connections to the exchanges but my preference comes at a huge cost, I have to manage the data myself in TS2000i. Less demanding folks might like TradeStation Pro since they manage the data (its all on demand much like Quote.com). To this day I still haven't found any charting application that allows me to produce complex, annotated, charts as easily as Tradestation allows me to do. Sadly Tradestation decided to become a brokerage first, software vendor as a gimmick. I wonder if that will turn around one day. I never used RavenQuote so I can't compare its ease of use, and while uses Quote.com feed, I never will.