MedVed QuoteTracker Software
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Thanks jerry... I had seen this tool but wasn't too fond of their subscription requirement (ie. revenue stream) for what should be a simple app. Maybe I should just stop being lazy and create the work myself and for the masses and just put quotein out of their misery... Perhaps its just me but customers are not always interested in the latest baddest version. For crying out loud, their charging more than you guys charge and clearly QT is alot more complicated than quotein. Who's gonna buy vista the day it comes out??? Just whining... Thanks jerry... Your app still rocks...
MAK!
I've got all that good stuff. SUPERB and POTENT STUFF you guys got. Thats why I blame myself for being lazy on just creating the RTD myself... I went to Barnes & Nobles and could not find a single volume on the nitty gritty of RTD. Read thru MSDN a few times but that wasn't enough... I'll work on it tho and contribute it to the QT open source. Hopefully it will be robust enough to do all the same and then some...
Thanks Guys
MAK!
J_Medved, QT Survey
Hadn't open QT in a while and decided to open it and let it upgrade itself to see what was new. In the meantime it asked if I wanted to do a survey so what the heck I clicked yes. The only thing I can comment on the survey was under the check all brokers that I have accounts with. None of the them applied so a suggestion is to list "other" as a checkable option in the list.
fwiw
Bsulli
Hadn't open QT in a while and decided to open it and let it upgrade itself to see what was new. In the meantime it asked if I wanted to do a survey so what the heck I clicked yes. The only thing I can comment on the survey was under the check all brokers that I have accounts with. None of the them applied so a suggestion is to list "other" as a checkable option in the list.
fwiw
Bsulli
Hello All. Some of the direct and indirect comments about QuoteIN above are misleading. It seems very easy to write a RTD server but the problem is not only RTD itself, the problem is much more to have a fast and flexible framework that connects to the remote servers and that can exploit RTD potential. This is what QuoteIN addresses and successfully solves.
To clarify what QuoteIN is and what its subscription pays:
The first thing to know is that it consists of QuoteIN add-in (which is the most popular) plus QuoteLink Tools which is the module that handles the data connections to the servers and offers it through the APIs
The data comes either
- directly from remote servers
- through QT streaming API
- ( and from next version through a new DDE Gateway )
The direct access to remote servers is the main mode and is by far the fastest since it connects directly to the servers. It avoids using intermediate applications and it is the one that fully exploits RTD possibilities. Also it is much simpler since there is only one application to configure which is Excel itself! The others are limited by all the applications in the middle but are handy because many more sources are available.
- RTD access in Excel (XLL for older Excel 97/2000)
- built-in native code options pricing functions using black-scholes and binomial methods and implied volatility
- include direct dump of intraday data directly from the server or collected locally which allows to write custom indicators/studies and produce charts with the results.
- All features are available in .NET and COM interfaces which can be used from within Excel or to produce stand alone applications
Speed and flexibility are the common design goal to all features here are some numbers:
QuoteIN RTD running on Excel
- 2,000 streaming in Excel
- more then 10,000 refreshing snapshots â kept within 1 minute
Stand alone applications build on top of the COM and .NET are not bounded by those limits since they donât use Excel but use only the framework libraries.The framework is very fast you can create an application on .NET that compute on all NYSE! (This kind of solution is available only using broadcast feeds and as a custom solution)
The framework is multithreaded and supports automatic recovery/reconnection and has a common cache (several applications share the same connections to the remote servers)
Though QuoteIN and QuoteLink Tools are available and many users are using it is not yet considered feature complete (hence the < 1 version) on the pipeline are more analytic possibilities, Level 2 , News.
About the comment on to the latest version: All published versions are tested the version number less than 1.0 simply means that not all the features planned are not there yet. (any unstable versions are labeled Beta when they happen)
Thanks for letting me post this clarification somewhat long here.
Antonio Leite
http://quotelink.net
To clarify what QuoteIN is and what its subscription pays:
The first thing to know is that it consists of QuoteIN add-in (which is the most popular) plus QuoteLink Tools which is the module that handles the data connections to the servers and offers it through the APIs
The data comes either
- directly from remote servers
- through QT streaming API
- ( and from next version through a new DDE Gateway )
The direct access to remote servers is the main mode and is by far the fastest since it connects directly to the servers. It avoids using intermediate applications and it is the one that fully exploits RTD possibilities. Also it is much simpler since there is only one application to configure which is Excel itself! The others are limited by all the applications in the middle but are handy because many more sources are available.
- RTD access in Excel (XLL for older Excel 97/2000)
- built-in native code options pricing functions using black-scholes and binomial methods and implied volatility
- include direct dump of intraday data directly from the server or collected locally which allows to write custom indicators/studies and produce charts with the results.
- All features are available in .NET and COM interfaces which can be used from within Excel or to produce stand alone applications
Speed and flexibility are the common design goal to all features here are some numbers:
QuoteIN RTD running on Excel
- 2,000 streaming in Excel
- more then 10,000 refreshing snapshots â kept within 1 minute
Stand alone applications build on top of the COM and .NET are not bounded by those limits since they donât use Excel but use only the framework libraries.The framework is very fast you can create an application on .NET that compute on all NYSE! (This kind of solution is available only using broadcast feeds and as a custom solution)
The framework is multithreaded and supports automatic recovery/reconnection and has a common cache (several applications share the same connections to the remote servers)
Though QuoteIN and QuoteLink Tools are available and many users are using it is not yet considered feature complete (hence the < 1 version) on the pipeline are more analytic possibilities, Level 2 , News.
About the comment on to the latest version: All published versions are tested the version number less than 1.0 simply means that not all the features planned are not there yet. (any unstable versions are labeled Beta when they happen)
Thanks for letting me post this clarification somewhat long here.
Antonio Leite
http://quotelink.net
Have had the same problem for months. No premarket backfill.
Can't even get it to do a web update...can't get the latest version, although it sounds as if that wouldn't solve the problem anyway. (Never did notify me of updates, even though that was checked in 'preferences'.)
Some real problems with late quotes (QCOM)...15 - 30 seconds late, and L2 freezing while T & S keeps running along.
Pretty charts, although horribly awkward to zoom in and out of.
I'm trying now to switch to swing trading, and a big factor in that decision has been the ongoing need to 'groom' balky data feeds all day long.
What specific backfill source? What QT version
If you can'd do a webupdate, notification wouldn't work either. And, actually, chances are that the beta version would fix the problem since we fixed stuff with premarket backfill in that version
Is your IE browser functioning and set to work on-line? If not, that would explain the problem. Also, if you are using any software firewall, go into the firewall settings, remove the rule for STOCKS.EXE and then add it back in.
Level II issue - What QT ver and what Level II source?
- then you probably don't know all the ways to do it
. QT has a bunch of ways to zoom. You can use +/- keys on the keyboard. You can resize the scroll bar, or you can hold down the CTRL key on the keyboard, then just highlight the area you want to zoom in on. You can even hold down the CTRL key then use the mouse wheel to do it.
Not sure how you can get it any simpler or less awkward than that.
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What specific backfill source? What QT version
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3.6.3e - 1
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If you can'd do a webupdate, notification wouldn't work either.
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Actually, used to be able to do web upgrades...not being able to do them is a relatively new problem.
Sometimes see the message 'error in file: no CRC' while it's (not) doing the updates.
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And, actually, chances are that the beta version would fix the problem since we fixed stuff with premarket backfill in that version
Is your IE browser functioning and set to work on-line? If not, that would explain the problem. Also, if you are using any software firewall, go into the firewall settings, remove the rule for STOCKS.EXE and then add it back in.
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All above are ok
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Level II issue - What QT ver and what Level II source?
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All the same....from Marketfeed
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- then you probably don't know all the ways to do it
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Must have missed something in the help files. I was aware of the CTRL+ click & drag function.
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QT has a bunch of ways to zoom. You can use +/- keys on the keyboard. You can resize the scroll bar, or you can hold down the CTRL key on the keyboard, then just highlight the area you want to zoom in on.
You can even hold down the CTRL key then use the mouse wheel to do it.
Not sure how you can get it any simpler or less awkward than that.
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Simpler and less awkward to click and drag to zoom in; double click to zoom back out. That's what I'm used to.
Personally, I don't like to grope around my keyboard every time I need to zoom, which is often.
We went through this backfill thing via email in June/July. At that time, I was told I was the only one with a premarket backfill problem.
what file is shown directly above the CRC error during WebUpdate?
Double click to zoom in/out seem VERY unintuative. Hitting CTRL is not exactly groping around the keyboard. The key is on the side of the keyboard and is very easy to get to with one hand while using the mouse wheel with the other. Resizing the scroll bar can also be done without the keyboard
backfill premarket - if we are talking starting the backfill before market opens and getting the premarket data for that day, you were not the only one. Don't remember anyone being told otherwise.
Double click to zoom in/out seem VERY unintuative. Hitting CTRL is not exactly groping around the keyboard. The key is on the side of the keyboard and is very easy to get to with one hand while using the mouse wheel with the other. Resizing the scroll bar can also be done without the keyboard
backfill premarket - if we are talking starting the backfill before market opens and getting the premarket data for that day, you were not the only one. Don't remember anyone being told otherwise.