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Strategies & Market Trends : Metastock 6.0 for Window -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Edward R. Haskins who wrote (1128)	11/24/1997 9:13:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 4056

I use Quotes Plus and like it very much. How does it get NOT get the job done??? No program is perfect but QP provides a good balance of speed and flexibility. Let us know what your requirements are and maybe we can steer you toward a package that may help. Dial data will certainly not do what you want unless you want to spend 12-16 hours downloading the quotes :) Most of use here use TC2000, QP, and some use reuters. If you go to the metastock list you will find some more variance over there with some even using dial data. A couple requirements from what you have stated. 1. Must provide entire market. 2. Must merge with Metastock CD data 3. You must use the MS Downloader because of 1 and 2. These eliminate almost every data provider I can think of. Either way you have seven choices assuming you have the full downloader. Call each of the seven and see if they meet your requirements. Reuters might be your best fit for obvious reasons. Sean Sean

To: Edward R. Haskins who wrote (1128)	11/24/1997 12:12:00 PM
From: Michael Quarne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

I've tried Quote Plus, and it does not get the job done. I use MetaStock 6.5 and 6.0 previous to that. I switched from TC2000 to Quotes Plus because it gets the job done better with more information greater ability and far better service. The data integrates seamlessly. I currently am testing the beta version and have had only normal beta type problems with it. The two top choices here at SI are Quotes Plus and TC2000 with most weight given to Quotes Plus. Regards Arctic Mike