I'm currently looking at implementing streaming charts.
For these, we'd obviously like to have 'best of breed' functionality which
is at least as good as equivalent competing products. Of the various
websites that provide streaming charts (e.g. BigCharts.com, Lycos.com,
quote.com, and of course A***N) what features do people especially like?
What additional sites / systems do they use/recommend?
Any input appreciated,
Felix

Croc/Mike/Felix

When you launch your intraday trading can you include, RSI, MACD (with divergance/convergance as shade) BOLLI BANDS, STOCHS, Williams %R?

What about MACD Histogram.

Ive heard that updata.co.uk are giving a free trial of unlimited streaming prices and level 2 for 7 days + technical analysis software and historic prices depending on which trial you take out. Seems like a good deal.

Dont miss out!!

Would love the ability to draw trendlines on the tickcharts. Some Java plugins do work .

I like the intraday charts in myTrack. I use candlesticks with the ability to change the time period from 1 minute upwards dynamically with a roller box.

I like the ability to have log charts as an option. Nice you already have this. More important is the ability to specify timespans (in no. of days) for the technical indicators (e.g. ROC, stoch). My idea of an ideal chart is the 'old' A***N charts, not the new 'blue' A***N charts that they have introduced, as the new style, apart from looking awful does not allow trendlines for the technical indicators to be drawn properly. Compare the two types of chart and you will see what I mean.

One important point to note is that a streaming chart is really only useful with an intraday one. i.e. where decisions can change in a few minutes. It is of no use on a yearly chart where investment decisions are not likely to change every few minutes.

I like the streaming with moneyam.com, which seams to work with no hitches. I am a recent convert from A***N where I got fed up with streaming not working properly on public access PCs. Maybe this was due to the extra bandwidth taken up with pop-up adverts which made the screen look more like an advertising billboard!

There should always remain the option of non-streaming in case streaming doesn't work properly on a particular PC.

someone once typed a url to get xcel to import share prices, from moneyxtra i think, but i cant remember it/find it, does anyone know of a url that will let xl import the share details of a particular epic?

I would like it if the ROC indicator looked more 'conventional'. Currently it has '1' as the mid-line instead of 100. Not sure if this in itself is the big difference, but it looks totally different from say the ROC indicator on A***N old style (non-streaming) charts (not the awful streaming charts which they have recently introduced). Currently the ROC indicator is not really suitable for drawing trendlines for this reason. Maybe the algorithm used to draw the ROC indicator is different.

Also when looking at the chart although there are monthly vertical lines to de-lineate the months on the price charts there aren't any for the indicators such as volume and ROC indicators. If you put in the monthly lines and they are very fine in width then it shouldn't interfere the volume lines.

I think a stochastics (slow and fast) indicator would be very useful.
I really like the overlays of technical indictors of different time spans. This is something I haven't seen on the usual websites.

I would like to say please..please..please leave in an option to switch streaming off. Other websites that have introduced streaming charts end up locking some PCs due to the streaming. This may because of firewall issues, or simply because of bandwidth problems. On public access PCs (such as libraries) streaming often doesn't work (although price streaming with moneyam.com does). I emphasise again that streaming is really only useful on intraday charts where things can change by the minute. When looking at a yearly chart hitting the Refresh button is often all that's needed. I'd rather have a chart that can be seen than a better one that can't....

Thanks for this feedback, brennanr.
Glad you like the ability to specify the timespans for ROC/
momentum/moving average.
To answer your questions:
We plan to keep the static charts and have the streaming
ones as an optional extra. In addition, I'm trying to
give the streaming ones a similar look & feel to the
static charts, even though they use a different display
technology (applets), and to make them as immune as
possible to online stumbling blocks like firewalls.
ROC is just (current price / price n days ago), which
mean-reverts to the value 1. The ROC graph is usually about the
same shape as the momentum graph, as you'd expect.
We do plan to add extra indicators / overlays, but right now
streaming charts are the priority... to say nothing of
day-to-day maintenance of the site,

Felix

hello

It would be useful if a moving average appears on the volume indicator. Be *very* useful if we could set the timespan for a volume moving average, although this would be bells and whistles..

OK brennanr, I'll put it on the wish list.
BTW beta streaming charts have just reached a new level of stability (I hope) so if anyone here would like access, please let me know.
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Felix(MoneyAM), I would really like to test the beta streaming chart, and would love to get access please.

Felix(MoneyAM)

I use streaming charts extensively and would be very interested in Beta testing the Money AM ones.

AC

brennanr and andycarr, I've added you. Should be able to see additional
Range option "Streaming". Rightclick to stop the bell if you find it annoying.
Note: this might end up as only a tantalizing sneak preview, since we may
be charging for the charts once they get out of beta.
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Hmmmmm... they are free over the road. Mind you, they also don't work terribly well there.

Thanks Felix

Will check the streaming out while trading tomorrow.

Regards AC

Felix(MoneyAM)

To stop the bell when using streaming chart what is it I Right-Click on? Also, I can't see any volume when using streaming.

At present with the non-streaming chart the data is only for up to the previous day. Can it be changed so it is more like A***N charts where the data is up-to-the minute?

Just right click anywhere in the chart menu.
You should get a menu with 'Toggle Bell' as an option.
Volume, etc aren't in yet - this is an early beta, only does simple
line charts at the moment.
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