I tried Multichart over the weekend. It depresses me how superior QT is over anything else I've tried. Someone buy QT from lowlife scumbags that is TD and revive it back to life please!
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I tried MultiCharts over the weekend too. So far, I like it.
Here's what Bill just sent me...
"Please be advised that QT was programmed in Delphi for Windows 95 and is rapidly reaching an unmaintainable state, so we are trying to integrate as many features as we can in to thinkorswim from TD AMERITRADE before that happens. When the draw down is complete by the end of 2011, it will no longer be supported or maintained, but QT will most likely still work in the state that it is in at that point."
"Please be advised that QT was programmed in Delphi for Windows 95 and is rapidly reaching an unmaintainable state, so we are trying to integrate as many features as we can in to thinkorswim from TD AMERITRADE before that happens. When the draw down is complete by the end of 2011, it will no longer be supported or maintained, but QT will most likely still work in the state that it is in at that point."
Tried MultiCharts and several other programs (NinjaTrader, TradeVec...).
Several points I am missing:
1. Unfortunately none of them handles constant volume charts (CVC) in a flexible way.
For me CVC is the only way to have a consistent look at the markets.
QT allows very flexible constant volume charts. MultiCharts blocks zooming out at some point which stops you from getting an overview.
NinjaTrader does not allow the user to use IB backfill for this chart type. ....
(QT has a long standing bad bug in handling CVCs but still it is superior to anything else.)
2. Fast entry of new symbols / fast selection of symbols.
Very handy to just click on a symbol and get the chart.
3. All these other charting programs are using up screen space for elements that carry no information (task bars, menu buttons...). QT is very efficient in using screen space.
Just some of my observations.
Taken together people that design these new charting programs obviously have in mind:
- Make it look nice (nice buttons, nice candles, many "indicators")
- Make the user go through many dialogs in order to reduce possibility of making erroneous input
These are ok for beginners that have never touched a charting program.
For people that know what they want these gadgets have no value. They just reduce efficiency.
NeoTicker seems to address all of the concerns on this list.
From the things that are not immediately obvious on the Demo:
1) Most visual intrerface elements (including even window frames) can be hidden to make the most of the screen space.
2) You can configure a "symbol list" and use it to send simbols to one or more charts with a double click
3) The easiest way to have constant-volume bars is to check "Superposition" on the symbols setup menu in a chart.
On the limitations side, you cannot trade from a chart. Peiod. There is a talk of people who created "interactive" indicators that allow placing orders by clicking on a chart but no one has publicly shared such an indicator yet.
what do you mean ?
As far I am concerned I don't really care about support, you didn't need it if you didn't update. I never update QT, now let's pray that the best brokers don't make it impossible to use the old QT because of their "improvements". Barring that , if I understand what's been said, QT is now free , and people will still be able to use it as long as it works with a broker's datafeed of their choice. Long live Jerry Medved !
As as I am concerned I haven't seen any SW improvement for 5 years, it's all gimmicks and development doesn't bring any value anymore. They should leave most software as it is but that would put them out of business.
I moved from TS2000i to Amibroker a few years back. No regrets. The software is open source and you can do anything your programming mind can conceive.
