QTXL - real-time streaming and snapshot quotes interface between QuoteTracker and Microsoft Excel. It downloads quotes from data sources available at QuoteTracker into Excel and thus allows performing quotes analysis and data visualization.

Pros: The application provides a real-time stock quotes from quotes services and displays on MS Excel. You can choose the source from several possible such quote services. A TD Ameritrade subscription is free when the product is registered. QuoteTracker is a Windows program that integrates with various data feeds, brokers and financial sites to provide you with streaming real-time or interval quotes and everything else you may need to trade in stock markets. Data being available in Excel helps doing a range of analysis to be performed on the data being downloaded. Beside the quote, volumes traded, changes from the last quote, 52 week low and such other data is displayed. User can set up any kind analysis on additional columns and track stocks in real-time. Such indicators could even include total gains, losses for your portfolio. The wizard allows users to easily build charts, calculate technical analysis functions using technical analysis software like AnalyzerXL, create trading systems without interruption of the data feed as tick-by-tick data is accumulated in Excel. AnalyzerXL is a library of 165 technical analysis functions, indicators and experts in the form of Excel formulas. The AnalyzerXL Wizard makes it easy to implement a new function and simplifies the creation of trading systems. It is also easy to create charts from functions with numeric outputs. QTXL can be helpful for all types of trading as it allows downloading real-time regularly updated data with different time intervals as well as streaming data. The product is also useful for beginners as it shows how the market functions based on the streaming data on various fields. Quotes can be downloaded from such prominent data sources as TD AMERITRADE, IQFeed, eSignal, MarketFeed, PCQuote MarketSmart etc. The user interface is straightforward and quite intuitive.

Cons: Direct buy/sell interface with exchanges would add additional value and really make the system very useful.

Overall: Quite a nice system with useful features, easy to use and thus rates a 4 star level quite easily.