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Helenqu

Hi All,

Does anyone know if any of the live charting packages/data feeds provide the option of P&F charts? I only want FTSE and possibly Dax at the moment.

Basically just for index trading.


TIA

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Helen

ChartMan

I've not seen any Helen. Maybe it can be done by getting an RT feed into EXCEL and doing it that way. Maybe PCER or Robin can help....

TBS

Hi Madge, ermm Helen....

I suspect the cheapest about at the moment, for live PnF charts, is Pronet - Bullet has played with it, he may be able to offer some comment, although I know he wasn't overly impressed.

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TBS

Terry

Indexia is one of the best for P&F charts although I would not currently recommend this as they are in a transition period, merging with Updata and at present the support is appaling. Not sure what your budget is.

AIQ also has P&F in it and if you are signed up for Mytrack Data then you can have a live point & Figure chart. However AIQ's P&F is slightly awkward to play with settings. Saying that however, If you only want this n the FTSE then you will probably only need to set your settings up once. Again, I am not sure whether your budget permits spending this much on getting live P&F charts.

I noticed your post for the P&F charts in Excel, very Nice. Mytrack does in fact provide, at a small additional charge, and interface to Excel for data. If you have a play I am sure it will not be too difficult to make this interact with the program you pointed out.

I did howevr notice that the Excel sheet you pointed out does not chart 1 point reversals properly. When one point reversals are used "x's" and "o's" should appear in the same column if there is only one reversal. That will however require a great deal of additional programming and it understandable why this would have been left out. It does however seem that people looking at intraday live charts often prefer using 1 point reversals.

Regards
Terry

ChartMan

Terry- I was under the impression that P&F RT was not available in AIQ......altough it is there for EOD... Have I been missing something all this time?

Helenqu

Hi Terry,

Thanks for that, I do hope to get AIQ with a live feed early next year, so I will look forward to playing with it.

I hadn't noticed the problem with the Excel P&F chart (thanks for pointing it out) but personally with type of index trading I want to do would never have the need for 1 point anyway. So maybe wiht some juggling I have the tools I need anyway.


Cheers and a Happy Christmas!

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Helen

Trader333

I use Tradestation 2000i and Interactive Brokers. Now with a clever piece of software I am able to get live data and charts from Liffe for only £20 per month and because I use Tradestation I am able to have whatever chart I want including Point and Figure. Of course buying Tradestation is not cheap but when I have compared it to paying for live datafeeds then it has paid for itself already. Just a thought

Trader333

kaizer

Helen

You seem to be a big fan of IB.
What's the story with this broker?
How much is their data feed per month (taking out related exchange fees) ?
Do they offer any extensive charting tools?

I am thinking of signing up, went to their web-site, it's all greek to me.

Any chance you could summarize and save me the headache?

Much obliged

K.