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To: keith massey who wrote (1518)11/22/1998 8:10:00 PM
From: QuietWon  Respond to of 4467
 
Keith, I have been at a couple of professional trading shops which have: level 2/market depth, time and sales prints, charts, etc.

Realize L2 is snapshot. I want to look at it a couple of times a day or for stocks with not so much trading or that have wide spreads - I don;t want to overpay for stocks. It wuld be great to have that for Cdn options, which sometimes have ridiculous spreads. Spreads on US options more consistent, may have larger spreads, but for the most part the more liquid US stocks have smaller spreads than the more liquid Cdn stocks. Just more volume on US options than Cdn options, I guess.



To: keith massey who wrote (1518)11/22/1998 10:41:00 PM
From: BradC  Respond to of 4467
 
For daily charts I use the Powertrader Analyst software. I pull data from any convenient source. For stocks I use the ascii download feature of Yahoo portfolios and for mutual funds I capture data from Canstock.

I did have to write a couple small awk scripts to convert the Yahoo ascii to the Powertrader format and to massage table data.

It's very easy to maintain once setup and it's Free!

Brad


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