Good questions. Q1: The 2 applications are practically the same. The only real differences come in the presentation of some aspects of the tool (e.g., History feature, symbol lists, etc.) but these are very small. The list of pre-configured strategies I believe is also slightly different. One large difference is the absence of the 'Collaborate' feature which allows you to share strategies with others quickly and import strategies through a copy and paste process. That's about it.
What is important is that both applications have the same alerts and the same filters.
Q2. We've posted strategy discussions in this support forum in the past, but its a bit hard to search and find them. We have a long list of posts on our blog: http://marketmovers.blogspot.com/ about strategies and trading plans. Look at the right hand side of the blog under the section, Categories, and you will find a link to take you to all the posts about each topic.
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