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10-12-2007, 10:28 AM
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Re: Favorite swing trading softwares
Some words about StockFetcher... I really like it! The syntax for creating scans is incredibly easy to figure out and the charts are really nice looking...very Mac-esque.
The bad things...I can't figure out how to draw simple trend lines and not have it just be an annotation line. The annotation lines don't scale when you zoom in and out. You cant save chart setting, so if you always want say a certain MA or always want MACD on your chart...you cant have it always pop up UNLESS you type it into every scan you do to draw those things. You can set default syntax to have that show up all the time...little bit of a workaround. The worst thing...the support forums. It doesn't seem like peoples questions are answered an awful lot by their support team. Granted, the product is cheap and can even be run for free if you can deal with the 100 stock return on scans so the money probably isn't there for a full time support staff...but still, it's pretty slow going. There also isn't a listing of the syntax that can be used. If there's something that isn't readily available on their site but *should* be able to be searched, you have to guess, and keep guessing until you figure it out, if you even do. I asked them for a listing of all syntax available for use, but they haven't replied to my email yet...so we'll see. It's cheap, but if the support isn't there when you need help, is that gonna be OK? 
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10-12-2007, 10:34 AM
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Re: Favorite swing trading softwares
Tin,
Check out www.stockcharts.com as well. Not sure what they offer in terms of paid services, but I've always liked their site.
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10-12-2007, 10:49 AM
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Re: Favorite swing trading softwares
Oh....StockFetcher won't let you draw anything on their charts. You can code in a Fib retracement, but can't just select a drawing tool to do it. While the charts are pretty and all, I don't think I could use it for charting. For scanning, I certainly could.
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10-12-2007, 12:53 PM
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Re: Favorite swing trading softwares
One real cool thing about stockfetcher, tho...you can quickly scan for a pattern with their pattern recognition. I have no idea how it works, but this one had come up yesterday... BEAS. 33% move today searching for the ascending triangle yesterday.
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11-08-2007, 09:16 PM
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Re: Favorite swing trading softwares
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