Post by Sol P on Jul 30, 2005 19:50:34 GMT -5
Originally posted by TONY on May 26, 2005, 10:28am
I thought it would be good to start a thread dedicated to sharing how we find and use data. When someone finds a new or a better way to get market information, they could post it here.
This way we could stay organized and won't have to dig through other threads. Also, if we allow new people into this board, they can get advice on what to use here.
For example, I had written back to Catherine my view on Marketbrowser below:
I was playing around with that market browser and I didn't really like the interface. It seemed kind of hard to add and remove the studies, but I haven't spent all that much time with it, though. However, you may find that you like it. I didn't pay to get the extra's either. I would suggest trying it out for awhile before paying anything.
Marketbrowser doesn't offer futures quotes, only US stocks and mutual funds.
I prefer the www.prophet.net better. I use that site's "snapcharts" and add the studies below the chart. Then I save the picture by right clicking. Then I open it up in paint to draw my own trendlines. Or you could print it out to draw them. These definitely have the futures quotes.
Also there is a interactive "java chart" on prophet.net that you can use and draw them right into the chart, so when you zoom in you can see them. -the caveat there, is that going from the larger view to the smaller you will see that you missed the true peaks and bottoms. I like to use the interactive one to know what the actual prices were, instead of trying to guesstimate them on the regular chart. Also if you are trying to see if that little bump on the RSI is REALLY lower, it is easy to tell with this because if you select that individual bar it identifies the value of each study in the right corner of each box...
I thought it would be good to start a thread dedicated to sharing how we find and use data. When someone finds a new or a better way to get market information, they could post it here.
This way we could stay organized and won't have to dig through other threads. Also, if we allow new people into this board, they can get advice on what to use here.
For example, I had written back to Catherine my view on Marketbrowser below:
I was playing around with that market browser and I didn't really like the interface. It seemed kind of hard to add and remove the studies, but I haven't spent all that much time with it, though. However, you may find that you like it. I didn't pay to get the extra's either. I would suggest trying it out for awhile before paying anything.
Marketbrowser doesn't offer futures quotes, only US stocks and mutual funds.
I prefer the www.prophet.net better. I use that site's "snapcharts" and add the studies below the chart. Then I save the picture by right clicking. Then I open it up in paint to draw my own trendlines. Or you could print it out to draw them. These definitely have the futures quotes.
Also there is a interactive "java chart" on prophet.net that you can use and draw them right into the chart, so when you zoom in you can see them. -the caveat there, is that going from the larger view to the smaller you will see that you missed the true peaks and bottoms. I like to use the interactive one to know what the actual prices were, instead of trying to guesstimate them on the regular chart. Also if you are trying to see if that little bump on the RSI is REALLY lower, it is easy to tell with this because if you select that individual bar it identifies the value of each study in the right corner of each box...