Sierra Charts vs Medved Quote Tracker

[dod]

That makes sense. It makes me wonder why people have been clamouring for IB backfill, unless, as you say, they're uninterested in volume data.

 

[nine]

If the volume data (and it will be different from different exchanges) is like tick data it will be approximately proportional to the "real" underlying data. In that case you can develop a strategy that works perfectly well based on IB data ... but would have to modify it for someone elses version of the data.

 

[dod]

Well, I only really pay attention to relative drop offs in volume during pullbacks, so I guess IB is alright for that. It's certainly seemed that way. For knowing whether a stock has enough volume traded on a general basis I look at EOD data.

 

[Trader333]

If the volume data (and it will be different from different exchanges) is like tick data it will be approximately proportional to the "real" underlying data

In my experience I have found this not to be the case. As I have previously said it can vary wildly and not in proportion but if it works for you then fine as I have no axe to grind on this, I am just giving my own experience.


Paul

 

[Chuck_T]

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Also compare to Quotetrader which is FREE and works with Interactive Brokers real time feed and backfill. QT has a DOM display and charting.


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Chuck

 

[nine]

In my experience I have found this not to be the case. As I have previously said it can vary wildly and not in proportion but if it works for you then fine as I have no axe to grind on this, I am just giving my own experience.


Paul

I actually didn't use volume data back then. I did and still use tick data but I believe that most exchanges now report true volume data thru IB. The "bad" old days are gone

 

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[ColinRiche]

For questions on QuoteTracker you can find additional support at QTusers Forum - Index but with the confusing similar names maybe the QT users forum should be used for your QuoteTrader as well eh Chuck and Brent, what ya think

 

[rverheyen]

The lack of more then 10 days intraday charting made QT useless to me.

Been using Sierra for over a year now and very happy with it. I'm also considering Ninja and Multicharts.

 

[ColinRiche]

The lack of more then 10 days intraday charting made QT useless to me.

Been using Sierra for over a year now and very happy with it. I'm also considering Ninja and Multicharts.

i guess you dont trade stocks

and its now 20 days intra for some

 

[nine]

Which doesn't compare with years of data really.

 

[ColinRiche]

Which doesn't compare with years of data really.

and you need so much data for what exactly, if not backtesting ?

 

[nine]

There are lots of wonderful things one can do with more than a few miserable weeks of data.

Its about 5 years since I did any backtesting but there are plenty of times when I appreciated having a decent amount of historical data. I suspect that would be true of any trader who trades his or her own ideas rather than trying to copy someone else

 

[ColinRiche]

yea many uses like hang on your wall

does it have uk stock data ?

what sort of data, tick data ?

 

[rverheyen]

i guess you dont trade stocks

and its now 20 days intra for some

I'm learning to daytrade NQ. I use intraday data to determen pivots.

 

[KASA]

IBCharts.com is the best free charting tool I ever seen!

 

[jhebbard]

Allways-valid Topic

IBCharts.com is the best free charting tool I ever seen!

I use IB, but their charting leaves me cold. Some of the earlier posts in this thread (which I hope isn't dead, as it is still very pertinent) wanted longer term data - which is easily availble in quotetracker through the historical charts.

However, I need something like a normal, data-fed Quotetracker chart that will use months of at-least daily data and technicals, and alternatively, do multi-symbol comparisons on a percentage change basis. The new Yahoo interactive charts are very good at this (comparisons ), but I would prefer it in QuoteTracker or ???

Keep this thread going.