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Strategies & Market Trends : Technical Analysis for Macintosh Users -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (503)	1/13/1999 2:43:00 PM
From: PuddleGlum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1541

Linda- Hotline is a good TA package for Mac. You can rank and sort you list of securities by quite a few different methods. The charts are well-presented, but the program is not quite as stable as ProTA Gold, and if you read some of the posts on this thread you'll find many more comparisons between the two programs. Most of the locals use ProTA Gold, which is well-designed and doesn't have the "baggage" that Hotline has wrt backward compatibility requirements. Hotline has over 10 years of history to confine its future, while ProTA built a good tool from scratch and has only a couple years of history. As a software developer, I can tell you that legacy code is some REAL HEAVY baggage. And in case anyone is interested, I'm also trying out Behold!. It looks feature-rich, but it's for the really, REALLY serious trader, and it's mostly used for trading system development, so the charting is kinda weak. pg

To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (503)	1/17/1999 4:52:00 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1541

I hope you fare better than I. I use PC Quote, Ensign's Vista and on the Mac is the Linnsoft software. Vista and Linnsoft run off a BMI cable. I have found the Linnsoft software to be unwieldy at best. One indicator is completely worthless. Two or three releases ago I told Bill Linn that his TIKI indicator "stops" at 19, does not register higher ticks. He insisted it was the data provider, which it isn't. He would not check until I told him it could not be BMI because I was running BMI into Vista as well, which was giving the correct data. So he checked and knows there is a problem but still does not fix it. Intraday charts are limited to 1, 3, 5, 10 minutes and so on. If you like to look at two minute charts...can't get there from here. Very often I perform one operation, get another. For example, mouse clicking on a graph to change the time settings will sometimes get a box you did not ask for. You are not supposed to click on the line in a graph, else you get that other box but I'm not clicking on the line. Sometimes I wonder if I have some problems because I'm running multiple monitors. Perhaps my system is just more complex and so I get more glitches. But in my case, being exposed to the use of 3 different programs at the same time, I have to say that the Linnsoft program is too quirky. It's unfortunate, because the Mac holds up better than the Windows based machines....they may be switched to UNIX or NT....but the software is superior for trading on the other machines. I don't think it's the provider so much (except in the case of PC Quote), the real question is getting quality software. EDIT Bill Linn is an easy person to get along with, but with regard to your run in with Heineman, my suggestion would be to get used to it. Similar anniying exchanges have happened to me as well; of course, if anyone has had similar problems to mine they would understand how it's possible to enter into a conflict with them. My use of Linn software goes back probably about 5 years.