Charting Accuracy

Libero wrote: Hi Remo,

I'm firmly on board with taking up the two month trial offer. However I aborted an initial attempt to sign up yesterday, because I became impatient with the seemingly long-winded sign up process, and wasn't sure what the package was offering me what in terms of exchanges, duplicate markets, whether payment is centralised etc...

For example, when I selected the F/X add on, it won't let me select other markets. When I selected European Markets, it didn't let me select F/X. Maybe I was a bit tired after a long day, and didn't grasp things properly.

I have been at work for 24 hours straight yesterday, and that might have been a source of irritation mind!

I'll give it another bash tomorrow (and I might Private Message you as I might have a question or two regarding the sign up process, such as what options to take on, and the integrity of the payment process, paying for the package then paying for the exchanges etc..)

Anyway, as I said, I'm on board, but got frustrated with the process (although I appreciate that I need to be patient!).

Cheers!

Hi libero
There sign up process is confusing. Ive complained to them about it a few times now.
dont worry about the forex as if you go for metastock pro it comes with all the forex anyway.
You dont have to pay for the software while on the trial.You do have to pay for the LSE exchange fee which works out at about $7 per month.This gives you the live feed for your charts.
The news feeds all come from Reuters so you dont have to pay for them as they are part of the trial.
If you get stuck then use there live chat help desk and as there based in america there available from after 1.30pm Uk time till really late.
The package im using is the metastock pro. If you do speak to them then just say your from chartsview and want to trial the same package that im on. Hopefully they should know me and will put you on the same package.
Ill try and find out what exactly im on and let you know latter. So that the process would be easier for you.
I dont think there help desk is open in the weekend so best do it during the week.

Hi Remo,

I'm firmly on board with taking up the two month trial offer. However I aborted an initial attempt to sign up yesterday, because I became impatient with the seemingly long-winded sign up process, and wasn't sure what the package was offering me what in terms of exchanges, duplicate markets, whether payment is centralised etc...

For example, when I selected the F/X add on, it won't let me select other markets. When I selected European Markets, it didn't let me select F/X. Maybe I was a bit tired after a long day, and didn't grasp things properly.

I have been at work for 24 hours straight yesterday, and that might have been a source of irritation mind!

I'll give it another bash tomorrow (and I might Private Message you as I might have a question or two regarding the sign up process, such as what options to take on, and the integrity of the payment process, paying for the package then paying for the exchanges etc..)

Anyway, as I said, I'm on board, but got frustrated with the process (although I appreciate that I need to be patient!).

Cheers!

The metastock 2 month free trials will end on the 31st sept. After this you will only get 1 month trials.

Jackozy....metastock is way more powerful and value for money than Updata . Initially the cost is similar but once you purchase metastock then all you will be paying for is the anual subscription which is about £900 a year this includes all the data and all the real time news that Reuters provide. The research side of zeneth is amazing.It finds all the info you will ever need about any company.All the fundamental info you could ever want.The news package alone is worth the £900 a year . Its not just a charting package.I know you did not like the feel of metastock before. I was the same but once I got used to it ,it's not so bad. It's a very powerful piece of kit which I must confess I don't use. I'm more of a chartist so for me that's all I need it for. I don't use any of the add ons which can make it so much more powerful. Theres more to it than people realise.
Like I said the 2 months free trial will end in a few days time so if you have not trailed it then please do.

That sounds about right

Summary for those who don't want to read my rant...

IG's index charts (whether their own or PRT's version of their data) are FUTURES charts ie include out of hours prices.

PRT's own EOD index charts are cash charts ie market hours only.

Metastock and Updata (and Stockcharts too I think) are cash charts ie market hours only.

Is that right?

[This brick wall is starting to hut my head]

That's hilarious!

My IG version of PRT has a daily low on 8th August 2011 of 4824.8!!!

Next day's low was 4719.4.

I know these could differ from remo's since they're futures prices, but there's no consistency even between PRT's own charts!

Actually, I just checked IG Market's own, basic, chart and mine shows a ftse low on 8/8/2011 at 4825.8 and a low next day at 4720.4.

From this I'm deducing that IG's version of PRT uses IG's data and plots it on PRT format charts...PRT's independent charts (ie their own) uses different data and then we've also got remo's cash charts (and the updata ones I used to have which are also cash).

So, IG's PRT is really just a prettier version of IG's own charts.

This is all carp. As soon as I get my new SSD I think it's time to trial Metastock again. I fell out with updata because they wanted over £1500 a year and the only real advantage of them was intraday stock charts (since I've started using futures charts for indices anyway and I don't trade FX much but you can get decent FX charts anywhere) and share are best traded using daily charts anyway imho. So it seemed pretty pointless to pay all that for something I don't think I need.

On the other hand, I could just use ADVFN's charts since I pay them for L2 anyway and the charts come included on a real time basis.

Perhaps IG's PRT charts for indices, commods and FX and PRT's own charts for EOD shares cross referenced with ADVFN prices for anomalies?

Or pay for Metastock even though I didn't like it last time...(and I've not been trading much recently anyway)

Decisions, decisions, decisions....

Perhaps crayons might to the trick...or a blindfold, a pin and a picture of a donkey....