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Desirable Items
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SmartBroker
Pro Features [and isolated feature $
value]
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Other
Software Alternatives
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Maximum
Stocks
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Lite=1000,
Std=5000, Pro=up to 30,000 [$199]
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Typically less than 5000 stocks
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Price
Flexibility
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One-Time
fee of:
Lite=$29,
Std=$59 both upgradeable, Pro=$239
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Most offer subscription services
~$39 - $400/month
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Updates
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Regular
and free
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Irregular and free
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Stock
Strainer/Filters
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Practically
unlimited combination of parameters.
20 settings can be saved [$39]
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Typically <12 parameters; and
<10 can be saved
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Self
generated recommended settings/filters
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Yes [$12]
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Not available
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Find similar
stocks from your reference stock
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Yes
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Feature not available
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Can retrieve
quick list of stocks likely to fall/climb
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Yes
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Feature not available
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Interprets
stock plots/graphs
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Yes
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Leaves the interpretation up to you
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Imports
practically any text ASCII quote file
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Yes
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Uses metafiles and other specially
formatted files
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Leave all
files in text-readable format
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Yes
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Only leave exported files readable
to humans
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Different
modes of presentation
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3-modes of
presentation; with slide show mode having speed variability
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Typically a single mode of
presentation
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Provides
general Market Overview Summaries
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Yes [$19]
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No.
Other than the index trends
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Predicts
Long-term and short-term prices
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Yes [$12]
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No
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Presents most
effective Strategies from the last run
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Yes
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No way
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Allows for
multiple installations using a single pass code
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Yes
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Some do, but most are limited to 2
installations
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Scores stocks
for immediate comparisons
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Yes
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Some
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Allows user
to constrict annual Hi/Lo levels to compensate for creepage
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Yes
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No way
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Automatically
interprets text file formatting if user settings are incorrect
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Yes
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No.
Will alert user that format is incorrect, but leaves it up to
user to correct.
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Automatically
eliminates obsolete or redundant stock symbols
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Yes
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No.
Some will alert user that duplicates exist.
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Allows for BACK-TESTING
or batch processing of multiple quote files
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Yes, major
feature ! [$39]
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No
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Allows for
complete and comprehensive quote processing and analysis – hands-free
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Yes. SmartBroker has an “Autopilot Mode” [$11]
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No way
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Provides
Unique market Alerts (including special opportunities or special market
behaviors)
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Yes, many [$49]
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Only on Market behaviors, but user
must interpret how to leverage this information
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Can search
relevant reports by stock symbol
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Yes,
automatically
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No
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Reports read
and interpret other reports to “consense” on best recommendation
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Yes
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No way
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Keeps Report
Cards on it’s recommendations
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Yes, major
feature
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No way
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Maintains a
historic log of it’s accuracy over time
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Yes
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No way
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Allows
complete stock symbol list management
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Yes, for
the entire list of symbols reported (all of them)
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Yes for a limited quantity of
symbols – typically ~100 per list
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When company
name changes, list automatically captures name change on the fly
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Yes
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No. User must manually edit any
changes
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Can build an
entirely new list of symbols from the imported quote file
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Yes
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No
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Installation
operation from within one folder (e.g. daily run) can carry-over
information determined from installation operating in a different
folder (e.g. weekly run)
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Yes
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No way
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Incorporates
environmental factors (inflation, housing starts, etc)
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Yes
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No
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Warnings to
prevent investing in unusually risky environments
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Yes, many [$7]
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No
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Ability to
tag/detag symbols based on user defined characteristics
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Yes
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Limited
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Suggest stock
opportunities that are optimized around your investment level
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Yes
(In Key
Categories Rprt) [$7]
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No
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Convenience
tools (calendar, calculator, screen color changes, notepad)
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Yes
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Some
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Pre-built
stock filters (including Channel Stocks)
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Over 40 [$129]
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few
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Retrieves
previous effective strategies which occurred under similar to current
conditions
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Yes
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No
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Full Terminal
Communications with Fax Receive
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Yes [$12]
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No
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Provides a
list of optimized Day-Trading Stock Opportunities
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Yes [$49]
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No
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Total of isolated Feature Value amounts =
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$584
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