Hi all, I received this from BE today. $40/month for end of day data, what a bargain! But, hey, for the "savvy" of you out there, you get 10 free trades with Ameritrade...the deals just keep on coming! This letter makes it feel like an honor to have the privilege of paying them. I guess what they say is true: There is no such thing as a free lunch, only free crack until the dealer gets you hooked. Kirk 3/6/2001 Dear Kirk, For more than one year, thousands of self-directed investors like you have used The BigEasy Investor free tools to help them tackle the changing investment market. We hope you have benefited from our comprehensive package of easy-to-understand screening tools, informative charts, integrated Web research, portfolio management tools and much more. In addition, our latest version 3.0 offers trendlines, additional screening criteria, new indicators and more -- so if you haven't upgraded yet log on to http://www.bigeasyinvestor.com and do it today! To support the continued expansion and ongoing improvement of the services you receive, we will be instituting a $40 monthly subscription fee beginning April 1, 2001. This fee is for data services only and you will continue to receive improved BigEasy Investor software and all upgrades, free of charge. We think you will continue to find the powerful set of trading tools BigEasy Investor offers to be a great value. We will be notifying all BigEasy Investor users prior to April 1, 2001 with more details on subscription fees. A special offer for BigEasy Investor subscribers! Weâre pleased to announce a special offer exclusively for savvy BigEasy Investor users. Open a new Ameritrade® cash account with a $500 deposit between March 1 and May 31, 2001 and you'll receive 10 commission-free Internet equity trades to use in your first month, a free 30 day trial subscription to BigEasy Investor daily market data service and a special discounted monthly subscription rate of just $30 a month thereafter. Just click on http://www.ameritrade.com/o.cgi?a=ndl&o=rie&p=/html/be.fhtml Plus, with Ameritrade you'll get: (in addition to slow fills) · $8 commissions for Internet equity market trades, limit and stop orders are just $5 more. · Direct access to your account 24 hours a day · Superior Customer Service representation 24/7 (excluding market holidays). To learn more about Ameritrade, or to open an account, log on at http://www.ameritrade.com. and type in offer code RIE. Remember, this is a limited time offer, so log on today. Sincerely, BigEasy Investor Management
Hi Wareagle, got this mail today too ( as all BE users, I suppose ) It's a nice program and I would consider paying 15 - 20 bucks a month for their EOD data ( as I would have to pay with any other more or less reliable data provider ). However , 40 bucks a month is way too much. So dropped them a mail, saying , although I like the program, I'll certainly not subscribe to this "bargain" offer. I recall, they posted something like " we try to keep the monthly data fee below 20 USD/month" on their website when they launched the product a year ago. As for alternatives : For the highend I'll take look into AIQ's Trading Expert. http://www.aiq.com For medium priced alternatives, one could checkout TC 2000 ( 29.95 a month ) or QP 2.2 ( 25.95 a month ) http://www.tc2000.com http://www.qp2.com Low cost alternatives would be : Stockwiz Pro 2000 ( 15.- /month ) AmiBroker 3.50 - 60 $ onetime registration fee for the fully functional version + regular updates ( nice charts,indicator building, backtest features and more ) http://www.amibroker.com Amibroker comes with AmiQuote - a little tool allowing you to retrieve historical data from Yahoo servers in an efficient way . AmiBroker can read may dataformats and you can also define user-specified ASCII data for import and use with AmiBroker. Another cost-free alternative for just quotes , i.e. for those traders who use already software-packages which can work / import ASCII or MetaStock data : http://www.downloadquotes.com you have to register. Access to historical quotes in .txt files for over 50.000 equities traded on all major exchanges worldwide. One can download either customized lists or complete markets, like NYSE and NASDAQ. Other, more reasonably priced eod data services : http://www.prophetfinance.com/marketdata/prophetdirect.asp http://www.reutersdatalink.com/ More info on software and quote vendors : http://www.daytradingstocks.com/tradingsoftware.html regards regards
I agree guys they have some hell of a nerve-$40--How bout the cute little idea of having us help price it-what do they take us for morons. But its true War they got us hooked-gave us the jones as we say in NYC. Privateer hopefully some of your selections will ease the withdrawal.
Hi limbo, the downloadquotes.com - service works. Tried it yesterday. The customized list may not contain more than 100 stocks / indexes at a time. But you can download whole markets,i.e. NASDAQ, AMEX, NYSE, or index components for i.e Nasdaq 100, S&P 500 etc. each in separate .txt file. Download is fast. I downloaded data for the last 2 trading days for all markets mentioned above and let "Downloader" ( MS utility )do the conversion from ASCII into MetaStock Format. I have about 1200 Stocks in my MS files list for screening purposes. MS-Downloader is able to select and add data only for those selected equities from the ASCII files. So no need to convert data from all 10K + equities traded on US exchanges. If you prefer scans on fundamental company data before applying TA, you might consider to use marketguide's NetScreen service ( free ). Screens can be saved and exported to Excel, from where it's easy to build symbol watchlists for further use in MetaStock, AmiBroker, OmniTrader or other applications. http://www.marketguide.com/mgi/netscreen/screening.asp?nss=www&rt=netscreen&rn=screening BTW - Fundamental data in BE comes from Marketguide anyway. But Netscreen offers 80+ fundamental criteria / variables for screening - much more than included in BE. If you consider TC2000 as an alternative, ther's a quite active usergroup on the net, where you can find many screen setups and personal criteria formulas. http://www.tradeon.com/tradeon/tc2000/index.html Good Luck
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Privateer I for one would like to thank you for all your posts which are always chock full of very useful information. Your efforts to prepare these are much appreciated.
limbo - you're welcome. I had to do the little "research" anyway because I'am looking for an alternative for BE. Sharing the results with others is part of the research. I have profited from many ET posters in the past ( and still do ) so it's a kind of give and take IMHO.