03/27/2012
QT is in the beginning of the draw-down process. Too early to have very much info available. QT was programmed in Delphi for Windows 95 and a business decision has been made to cease support and maintenance of QT, so we are trying to integrate as many features as we can in to ThinkOrSwim from TD Ameritrade before that happens. When the drawdown is complete, QT will no longer be supported or maintained. In the meantime, we recommend trying out ThinkOrSwim. If you need any assistance with it or a walkthrough, just let us know and we'll see if we can get someone at TD Ameritrade to give you a call. For that, you would need a TD Ameritrade account, so if you have one, let us know the account number or userid (please do NOT send us any info other than that like password), a good phone number, day and time to call, and the timezone you're in.
Sincerely,
Harrison
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Thanks.
That's too bad about the wind down, I've been using QuoteTracker in one form or another since 1999.
No plans to sell or open source it?
-Gene
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Though there definitely aren't as many multifeed/tracking platforms as there were a few years ago, there are quite a few around that may work in place of QT. Though QT could be rewritten from the ground up, it would basically mean a new trading platform, anyway, so I don't know that there would be a big difference in the outcome either way.
Cheers,
Harrison
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QT does a good job as a low cost eSignal!
The ad-supported model never made sense, most places may have an ad supported trial and then require payment, and the pricing point was ridiculously low (not that I'm complaining).
If you can afford to trade stocks and commodities you can afford to pay $20-$40 a month for a good quoting and charting product!
*The reason I was setting this up was to demo the full features and potentially purchase it as a low cost replacement for futuresource for low level users at our shop who just want a technical charting package. I work at an energy trading shop for my day job.*
*ThinkOrSwim really isn't a viable alternative because it's an execution platform, we execute through our accounts at Macquarie Bank or other investment banks and there isn't a chance in heck that we'd move to a retail platform for that (e.g. we pay less than the rates at interactive brokers for round trip futures trades, mainly because they want our voice broker business for OTC stuff)*.
By comparison futuresource costs $200+/month per user.
There's basically nothing as good as QT between barchart.com (free) and futuresource or DTN prophetx ($200+/month plus) for quoting and charting.
Our plans were to segregate users into:
Basic: Barchart.com ($0)
Silver: QuoteTracker with a feed supporting commodities ($14/month)
Gold: DTN ProphetX or eSignal Futuresource ($200/month)
*But even at $40/month QT be worthwhile to us. *Using it as a platform to get more TDA customers doesn't make much sense, but selling it like a futuresource-lite product that can use multiple quote sources does!
-Gene
QT is in the beginning of the draw-down process. Too early to have very much info available. QT was programmed in Delphi for Windows 95 and a business decision has been made to cease support and maintenance of QT, so we are trying to integrate as many features as we can in to ThinkOrSwim from TD Ameritrade before that happens. When the drawdown is complete, QT will no longer be supported or maintained. In the meantime, we recommend trying out ThinkOrSwim. If you need any assistance with it or a walkthrough, just let us know and we'll see if we can get someone at TD Ameritrade to give you a call. For that, you would need a TD Ameritrade account, so if you have one, let us know the account number or userid (please do NOT send us any info other than that like password), a good phone number, day and time to call, and the timezone you're in.
Sincerely,
Harrison
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Thanks.
That's too bad about the wind down, I've been using QuoteTracker in one form or another since 1999.
No plans to sell or open source it?
-Gene
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Though there definitely aren't as many multifeed/tracking platforms as there were a few years ago, there are quite a few around that may work in place of QT. Though QT could be rewritten from the ground up, it would basically mean a new trading platform, anyway, so I don't know that there would be a big difference in the outcome either way.
Cheers,
Harrison
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
QT does a good job as a low cost eSignal!
The ad-supported model never made sense, most places may have an ad supported trial and then require payment, and the pricing point was ridiculously low (not that I'm complaining).
If you can afford to trade stocks and commodities you can afford to pay $20-$40 a month for a good quoting and charting product!
*The reason I was setting this up was to demo the full features and potentially purchase it as a low cost replacement for futuresource for low level users at our shop who just want a technical charting package. I work at an energy trading shop for my day job.*
*ThinkOrSwim really isn't a viable alternative because it's an execution platform, we execute through our accounts at Macquarie Bank or other investment banks and there isn't a chance in heck that we'd move to a retail platform for that (e.g. we pay less than the rates at interactive brokers for round trip futures trades, mainly because they want our voice broker business for OTC stuff)*.
By comparison futuresource costs $200+/month per user.
There's basically nothing as good as QT between barchart.com (free) and futuresource or DTN prophetx ($200+/month plus) for quoting and charting.
Our plans were to segregate users into:
Basic: Barchart.com ($0)
Silver: QuoteTracker with a feed supporting commodities ($14/month)
Gold: DTN ProphetX or eSignal Futuresource ($200/month)
*But even at $40/month QT be worthwhile to us. *Using it as a platform to get more TDA customers doesn't make much sense, but selling it like a futuresource-lite product that can use multiple quote sources does!
-Gene
