David, how many stocks can be scanned maximum with trade-ideas? I need to scan all US stocks and it's hard to find a service that allows more than 1000.
Regards Robert --- In [email protected], "dbwyatt_1999" <dbw...@...> wrote: > > > 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 <psytek@> 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 > > >
