And it’s only $60 a year – but it is FREE if you have a funded Ameritrade account. It is also free if you don’t mind ads or only having two days of historical intraday data.
PLUS, you get IQFeed for only $20 a month (reduced from $50) if you are registered with QuoteTracker. I tried this out today and there was a noticeable difference in the data as opposed to using Interactive Brokers or Ameritrade. Basically the data was perfect with IQFeed, but with the others I noticed some problems. BTW, everytime I click on a new stock, I have to ctrl+F to backfill the intraday data – is there any way to have this automatic? I only have to do it once and it is fine after that, but it is still kind of annoying to do it even once for every new symbol.
Highchartpatterns sent out an email the other day talking about how they use QuoteTracker, which was very helpful. One thing they mentioned – and that is very important to my style of trading – is the alerts. Not only can you set them to go off at certain prices (as with Cybertrader), but you can just draw a trendline and right-click on it to set an alert that fires when it is crossed.
I also like the vol % column on the watchlist – you can easily sort your list by volume as a percentage of average daily volume. I just put the QQQQ on the list and keep my eye on everything that is above it (i.e. has increased volume relative to the QQQQ).
I also hooked up trading within QuoteTracker today, which is kind of cool.
Really the only thing I miss from Cybertrader are the more sophisticated alerts. I’d like to be able to have automatic orders placed at certain prices or times. Maybe this is possible with QuoteTracker, I don’t know. I have to spend more time screwing around with it.
But overall I’m settling in to using QuoteTracker from now on. Does anyone know how it is with charting/trading futures? Another thing that would be nice would be some custom scans, for example to pull up the top % gainers for the day with average volume over 1 million shares.
I’ll have to spend some time reading the manual.

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