They've given preference to the uses who have a TDAmeritarde account vs. just the standalone QuoteTracker users, plus they're doubling the price.Quote from Landis82:
Would you rather that TD Ameritrade disable everything like Fidelity did with Wealthlab?
All that is done is increase the registration price to $10/month and make it required for US brokers.
BFD.
Quote from MandelbrotSet:
They've given preference to the uses who have a TDAmeritarde account vs. just the standalone QuoteTracker users, plus they're doubling the price.
If I have no interest in trading stocks or opening up a TDAmeritrade account, yes, it is a Big Fucking Deal.
The issue has nothing to do with money, it has to do with not wanting to be forced to have an account with TDAmeritrade to get the optimal use out of QuoteTracker.Quote from Landis82:
The "preference" to TD Ameritrade users has been there for years . . . This is nothing new.
And last time I checked, Ameritrade owned QT. It's America. They can do whatever they want and charge whatever rate that the marketplace will bear. If $10 per month is too much for you, I feel sorry for you.
Sierra Charts wipes the floor with QuoteTracker (which is mainly a new-user/intermediate level software).Quote from Kicking:
Is there any serious alternative to QT ?
It sure sucks that IB can't even come up with a decent charting platform a bunch of fools run TWS development.

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Not an issue.
Not in any current plans that I'm aware of.
And (contrary to what you may have understood in the confusing e-mail that they sent out; because they called it a "Premium Quotetracker ) there is no need to re-install anything. It's the same QT.
There is some functionality that is specific to Ameritrade users, but it's the SAME QT. You do not need to re-install anything!
Quote from MandelbrotSet:
The issue has nothing to do with money, it has to do with not wanting to be forced to have an account with TDAmeritrade to get the optimal use out of QuoteTracker.

Quote from dcvtss:
Thanks for the response, I don't mind opening a small account at TD to get quotetracker I think it is worth it I just can't seem to find any clear communications from either QT or TD about the registration/upgrade process and don't want to spend a bunch of time replicating the settings I've created over the past couple of years. It would certainly be helpful if their instructions were a bit more explicit! I still think their long term strategy will be to restrict QT datafeed to just TD...hope not though.