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Strategies & Market Trends : Candlestick Charting--The unknown indicator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Sandi Lieu who wrote (1492)	1/13/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: Russell McGuire	Respond to of 1589

I normally use BigCharts. bigcharts.com

To: Mr. Sandi Lieu who wrote (1492)	1/18/1999 10:33:00 AM
From: John Lee CA	Respond to of 1589

I just downloaded their program this weekend and signed up. They give first 2 weeks free (except $12.50 for exchange fees and then they start charging). Just playing with the program so far it looks impressive. I have been trying to decide on an RT data source with charting and theirs seems quite reasonable at $24.95 plus exch rates. I will know more after Tuesday when I see how it works with real data. I may not have RT by then as they state it takes 1-2 business days to activate. Do you have any comments on other services. I have looked at quote.com 's live charts but they are more expensive. John

To: Mr. Sandi Lieu who wrote (1492)	1/18/1999 9:56:00 PM
From: stumpy	Respond to of 1589

I have used IQC realtime for 2 months now. For the money, you can't beat it. One disadvantage is that they do not offer tic by tic bid/ask. Data is updated every minute, or, you can lay on the get quote button like at a online broker. IQ chart allows one to screen for candlestick patterns, price, volume, and other technical indicators. It allows you to view intra- and inter- day data in many time frames (as opposed to DBC Stockedge, which only gives you 1 day of intra day data). Plus it has trendlines (Wow. Kind of basic. But you can't draw trendlines with Qcharts, which otherwise is very good). It does have all the inherent disadvantages of Java, however. What is amazing to me is that these other services cost 5-10 times more but leave out certain basic charting features that IQC has, which was obviously developed by a chartist. IQC does have all of the disadvantages of a java program, and this is its inherent limitation.