Herman, The best stock scanning service I've used is Trade Ideas (www.trade-ideas.com <http://www.trade-ideas.com> ). All of their scans are pre-defined, so they are not nearly as flexible as AmiBroker. However they recognize some difficult to program chart patterns like consolidation areas, wedges, double tops/bottoms, support and resistance areas, and pullbacks. It's a live intraday scanner that is constantly scanning all the exchanges you specify for the conditions you specify. The alerts are sent in real-time to your computer in a browser or their front-end application.
The big advantage that I found is that it does not use much CPU and it's able to scan a much larger universe of stocks than I could on my local PC. The only problem I had was that it would return too many alerts. I had to really narrow the of focus of the scans to limit the alerts. I switched to trading futures about 4 years ago, so I've not used Trade Ideas since then. I can only assume they've improved. Regards, David --- In [email protected], Herman <psy...@...> wrote: > > Real-Time scanning of a large number of stocks is complicated by the > ticker quota set by the data provider, internet BW, and the limited > processing power most of us must work with. > > I am looking for an Internet based service that will automatically scan > 1000-2000 tickers, in real time, at set intervals (>5 Sec. Intervals). > Not sure how the results would be passed to me... perhaps by email or to > be downloaded from a website. > > Is anyone using this idea? > > thanks, > herman >
