Alternatives To QCharts

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You can edit out nearly all the toolbars in QT.

QT operates from what it calls "portfolios" You can create and have open multiple portfolios across multiple monitors. These can be as busy or as plain as you like. High/low/last etc.

You can have a portfolio window with just one symbol and make the rest of the screen a chart, multiple charts, t&s, news whatever.

If you want to add a second symbol, just hit insert button, type in symbol. Presto.

Click on symbol in list. Puts that symbol in a chart, or charts if you have charts linked. Any time frames. If you want a symbol not on your list, simply type symbol in active chart.

You can have multiple pushpin colors linked to portfolios linked to charts, linked to multiple monitors. Any or all charts can update at once, or individually. In any time frame. Including historical charts.

What's also cool about QT is you can add data stream on the fly with one license.

Say Esig goes down. Trading is done for the day right? Wrong.

Make change in data souce/proxy menu and switch to IB, Iqfeed, about 50 others. Works seamlessly. Stay with recommended data sources. Takes about 10 seconds.

Or have 2 data feeds run at the same time. Just make certain not to use the same symbol in both.

For example I have QT running on Iqfeed as back up for stock trading and its filtering stocks from Trade Ideas.

At the same time I also have another QT version running but this one being fed by IB data for my futures backup with integrated order entry. Just click on the chart. Order placed.

Historical backfill Eod stocks goes back years. I can check to see how many. At least 2. And you can link with Prophet net and get the entire history.

ID backfill usually caps out at 10 days. Depends on your broker/data source.


Wish I had QT when I started out.

$400/month for 10 minute delayed satellite delievered data. I thought I was THE MAN.

:D

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

I've noticed that QCharts seems to be suffering a recurrence of its old problem, lagging data. It seemed fine for quite a while, but after the ESig takeover, things have seemed to be gradually getting worse. Given that there are several programs that can use the free IB feed and thereby avoid the rip-off for RT data from the futures exchanges, it seems like a good idea to evaluate them more closely.

Without having demo'd them, I can say that I like the look of Sierra Charts and find QT a little busy. For example, do you have to have a watch list running in QT to put up charts? Can yu delete all the various toolbars, etc in QT? They seem to take up a lot of screen space.

My primary concern however is backfill. I like to have a couple of years of EOD and several months of intraday, at least 60 minute data. I don't like having to store the data on my HD, and having to run the computer at all times to collect data is not going to work for me.

I know there are third party products that provide backfill, for a price. Anyone used them?

This is primarily for futures and indexes, as I use another broker platform for stock trading. I do appreciate the ease of displaying stocks in QCharts however. You can create several charts with different timeframes and fill them by clicking on a watchlist or one of their hotlists. Very useful, as are their proprietary indicators. And of course, anyone who has used the QCharts platform loves the intuitive interface and great charting.

I hate to replace them, but the combination of lagging data and expensive RT data is beginning to annoy me.
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Quote from steve46:

Hello:

I wonder if anyone has experience using DTN?

It would interesting to know what their backfill capabilities are
and whether they have a consistent feed.

Now that Esignal has bought Qcharts I am about to 86 them from my desktop.

Steve
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Steve,

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*Provides over 1 year of intraday (x)Minute data on most symbols.
*Access to Stocks, Indexes, Market Stats/Breadth, Emini's, and Forex
*No symbol limit
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Quote from j_medved:

QuoteTracker has very few toolbars. Are you sure you are looking at QT and not another program? The ones that are there can be hidden by clicking on the vertical tab on the left side of the toolbar (top panel, indices, trading panels)

You do not have to have the symbol in the WatchList or portfolio to get charts. you can bring up a chart on any symbol in the WatchList or Portfolio, and once the chart is up, just type in the symbol

As for amount of data, on intraday it is max 10 days (assuming you are registered), so a bit less than what you mentioned you are looking for. Historical charts have as much data as the source you select provides (decades in case of some symbols like IBM)

As for it being busy, you can make it as busy or sparten as you want - QT is fully configurable.

If you have any questions on how to set something up in QT, please feel free to ask - here, email or on our message boards.
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Thanks Jerry. I was looking at your website. The screen shot you have shows a lot of screen space taken by tool bars, watch lists, etc. I assumed they could be hidden but wanted to make sure.

I am a bit confused by the need to have the chartable in a portfolio or watchlist. Is that a database kept on the HD? Can I create a chart and just add a symbol by typing it in or do I need to first add it to a list somewhere and collect data for it?

I really appreciate the level of support you provide, both here and through your site. That level of personal attention is rare for vendors. I'll probably download the demo and give it a try. At the least i can use QT for RT futures and keep QCharts for historical. Basically I'm tired of paying the money for the RT exchange data.
 
Quote from skim:

AA - if you look at the list of servers, you will note that they do not alter their position in the list, as they used to. In other words they're fixed. And also, you'll notice that the server 'remembers' which server you were on the previous day, and allocates you a slot on that one.

Well, that is what I've noticed, anyhow.

As an example, I've been on the same server for the last four days, and have had no problem at all with lagging data - in fact it's been just great.
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I noticed that the list doesn't seem to work like it used to. Switching servers on the fly doesn't seem to work very well most of the time.

I have been traveling for a few days and haven't used it, so my observations are based on the last few weeks. Definitely seeing an increase in delayed data, with other feeds on the same ISP not lagging, so I think it's something on their end.
 
Quote from jtmarlin:

hey 4x: QT now supports IB Hist Backfill - I'm getting around 6 months now with historical...
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Are you saying you get 6 months of intraday backfill with IB? And do you get it just by punching up a symbol? Is this for stocks only or also futures?

Thanks for your advice.
 
I've had good results using the following technique:

1. edit your "ContinuumClient.ini" file (it's probably in c:\program files\quote.com\qcharts 5.1")

2. find the line that says "AutoUpdateServerList=true" and change the setting to "false"

3. delete all of the "server=" lines except the one that you have found works best
 
AAAintheBeltway - the screenshots may need a bit of updating :)

QT stores all the quotes it gets from Level I datafeeds and uses them to build the chart. It can also backfill the data, in order to build the chart for time periods when you may not have been running QT or not watching that particular symbol

Can I create a chart and just add a symbol by typing it in or do I need to first add it to a list somewhere and collect data for it?
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You can open a chart on some symbol (just to bring up a chart), then type in the new symbol right into the chart without first having to add the new symbol to any portfolio. If you are using a good datafeed that has backfill, QT will auto-backfill the chart at that point. It will also automatically start getting quotes for that symbol so the chart will stay updated

Are you saying you get 6 months of intraday backfill with IB? And do you get it just by punching up a symbol? Is this for stocks only or also futures
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IB returns 12 months of data for Historical data. For Futures, it may be less - whatever they have for the given contract.
 
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