Hi MadRed,
Until recently, when my annual data subscription expired, I had been using Quicken's ShareAnaylser charting software with its inbuilt scanner. I am happy to use Comsec's advanced charting for now.
Now before anyone has a go at me for using SA, let me state that I am an investor whose main priority nowadays is income and so I am not a day or short term trader and so I don't need all the bells and whistles that some of the much more expensive software might have.
Anyway, back to your original query MadRed, SA has end of data data available for download from 6:30pm EDST and data-on-demand (DOD) available intra day but the DOD is 20 mins delayed. I used to use SA's inbuilt scanner quite a bit and it, like all scanners I suppose, can easily check for gap up/down on historical data. I never used the scanner on the intraday DOD data and so unfortunately I cannot confirm whether the scanner will work on DOD or not. Also I only used to use DOD on a chart by chart basis when I was looking at a specific stock. I don't know if you can download all the DOD for the ASX in one hit.
If interested, the best thing to to would be to go to the
www.quicken.com.au website and send them an email.
Good luck.....and just as a side note, I'll post below a copy of my thoughts on SA I posted on another site in case you're looking for a complete charting software system
cheers
bullmarket
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Hi ann
I hope you manage to find this post in reply to your query in Other Business.
I have been using Quicken's ShareAnalyser charting software for a while now.
It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that some of the more expensive packages have, but being an investor and not a trader, I don't need them either.
Imo the line drawing tools, indicators available (about 20 or so of the most common ones), full screen mode for displaying charts are excellent.
All the indicator settings and line drawing features are fully user customisable if you don't like the defaults.
The data provider is Hubb (in Sydney I think). End of day data is available for downloading from 6:30pm EDST.
SA also has an inbuilt scanner which allows you to scan for stocks using user defined scan criteria like looking for stocks that have fallen 10% in a specified time frame or whose moving averages have crossed etc etc. You don't have to know any computer programming to set up the scan criteria. It's all point and click.
So unless one is a serious full time trader (and even if one is), I can highly recommend at least having a look at SA as an option if looking for charting software. It's a lot cheaper than some of the so-called 'Rolls Royce' software are and with at least 80% of their features imo.
Yes, the chart I posted displayed the Fib's for the Mar03 - Sep05 uptrend, 3 and 10 day moving averages and the MACD and Stochastic indicators which are the main indicators I use on charts.
So, in keeping with my philosophy to KISS I thought why pay for a Rolls Royce when a mini-minor will easily meet my needs
If you would like more info, maybe have a look at
http://www.quicken.com.au
Regards