QuoteTracker To Be Finished End of 2011
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Last week I was inquiering with QT technical support about backfilling issue and that's what I got back (it took them 1 week). Hope this will, at some point, open the door to Jerry to take QT back under his wings.
"QT is in the beginning of the draw-down process. Too early to have very much info available. 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."
"QT is in the beginning of the draw-down process. Too early to have very much info available. 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."
Thank you Jerry for this update. I would have been real hard going without the holidays being updated too.
I can't believe that the best program for trading is being killed by TDA. There is nothing that comes close to its refinement and they want to destroy it. It will be an impossible PR situation for them if they do.
What planet are they on thinking that TOS would even be viable for anyone used to using QT ? Who do they have there coming up with the most destructive decision they could make for their customers...
There must be a means of keeping this precious piece of software going and improving on it. There must.. !
I can't believe that the best program for trading is being killed by TDA. There is nothing that comes close to its refinement and they want to destroy it. It will be an impossible PR situation for them if they do.
What planet are they on thinking that TOS would even be viable for anyone used to using QT ? Who do they have there coming up with the most destructive decision they could make for their customers...
There must be a means of keeping this precious piece of software going and improving on it. There must.. !
@ Marcus1
I've received the same boilerplate message when I've written to Harrison at QT as well.
I've spent an hour or two on the phone speaking with the tech support people at TDA a couple of times.
What a mess they are digging themselves in. Do any of these guys there trade equities? I'm thinking their higher profits must be generated by options arbitrage, and the more muddled they make TOS the more they think they can encourage options trading etc.
There is nothing in TOS that makes a close comparision to QT when it comes to the type of trading we need to be set up for and see instantly. It's just nuts.
The problem is also that the tech support people seem to believe that TOS will someday satisfy all traders needs and it has nothing to do with anything we need now.
How they can be so lacking in objectiveness in this is beyond me but speaks too much to me as a customer that they are basically out of touch with trading in the tradtional sense.
Something must give here, they can not kill this program because there is nothing they can change with TOS unless they build another QT from the ground up.
I've received the same boilerplate message when I've written to Harrison at QT as well.
I've spent an hour or two on the phone speaking with the tech support people at TDA a couple of times.
What a mess they are digging themselves in. Do any of these guys there trade equities? I'm thinking their higher profits must be generated by options arbitrage, and the more muddled they make TOS the more they think they can encourage options trading etc.
There is nothing in TOS that makes a close comparision to QT when it comes to the type of trading we need to be set up for and see instantly. It's just nuts.
The problem is also that the tech support people seem to believe that TOS will someday satisfy all traders needs and it has nothing to do with anything we need now.
How they can be so lacking in objectiveness in this is beyond me but speaks too much to me as a customer that they are basically out of touch with trading in the tradtional sense.
Something must give here, they can not kill this program because there is nothing they can change with TOS unless they build another QT from the ground up.
If TDA decides to no longer support QT... what exactly does that mean to current users? I could live without future updates so long as I can keep the current functionality.
It's a desktop application and from what I can tell (and I'm no programmer) they only thing that might cease to function are the feeds. Heck, I'd even use the ad-supported model over TOS.
I'm sure a patch (like the one used to fix the backfill issue) could be created to bypass any TDA issues once they bring QT down. Right?
It's a desktop application and from what I can tell (and I'm no programmer) they only thing that might cease to function are the feeds. Heck, I'd even use the ad-supported model over TOS.
I'm sure a patch (like the one used to fix the backfill issue) could be created to bypass any TDA issues once they bring QT down. Right?
TDA has not been supporting QT for at least a year now. I had alot of problems with bad quotes so I signed up with DTN IQ Feed and QT works just fine for me. I wouldnt use anything else but QT.
If someone hadn't provided the update with the holidays I believe the indicators that we use would have shown faulty feedback.
There is a lot to keep maintenace for this kind of coding, but thankfully somebody loves this software as much as the rest of us users.
There is no way TOS is even going to come anywhere near providing the immediate feedback and capability that this program does in any sense. It is a monstrosity already.....
There is a lot to keep maintenace for this kind of coding, but thankfully somebody loves this software as much as the rest of us users.
There is no way TOS is even going to come anywhere near providing the immediate feedback and capability that this program does in any sense. It is a monstrosity already.....
And who cares if it was written in Delphi or not.
Half the airtraffic control software in Heathrow etc is still in fortran and it's not going into mothballs anytime soon.
There are plenty of Delphi programmers out there and there are ways of upgrading the language as they do for big control centers.
Half the airtraffic control software in Heathrow etc is still in fortran and it's not going into mothballs anytime soon.
There are plenty of Delphi programmers out there and there are ways of upgrading the language as they do for big control centers.
@edo870 - the patch already bypasses TDA servers for registration, disables web update, auto registers, and increases max # of days on charts to 60. That was in the first one posted.
@tomi01 - note that you can edit the holidays yourself on the OPTIONS/Edit Preferences menu, CHARTS tab, Multiday Timeframes sub-tab... Select the timeframe, then hit the Market Holidays Button. Or, you can just edit the TFHOLIDAYS.XML file with a text editor
@tomi01 - note that you can edit the holidays yourself on the OPTIONS/Edit Preferences menu, CHARTS tab, Multiday Timeframes sub-tab... Select the timeframe, then hit the Market Holidays Button. Or, you can just edit the TFHOLIDAYS.XML file with a text editor