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I think the new Yahoo Mangement have already made it clear that many of
their previously free services are likely to become chargeable in the
future. Not surprising really as many of these internet companies have been
forced to revise their business models radically.
IMO at the end of the day we should expect to be paying for our data feed.
The good news is that the data feed service market is getting more and more
competitive with prices consequently being driven downwards. Data quality
and service reliablity are more important than out and out low price. Poor
data can cost endless wasted hours checking and correcting.
A quick tour of the various trading software forums will give you
valuable insight into the end user views of the various data feed suppliers.
With many providers you can try before you buy. In the past I have found it
interesting to compare the EOD data from different suppliers over the same
period - it's surprising how many differences there are!
>From the Amibroker RT point of view I think the essential facility required
is to have a flexible data feed interface which can be configured or user
programmed to the data feed of their choice. Built-in support for Quote.com
etc. is great for US users/markets but for other markets (e.g. I am in UK)
users will be using other RT data feeds.
John
---- Original Message -----
From: "Hal Brehe" <infoads@xxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 8:16 PM
Subject: [amibroker] US Market Quotes, Change Eminent?
> Hi Tomasz,
>
> It is becoming clearer and clearer that Yahoo Finance may NOT want to
> continue distributing its data. I say this because I have downloaded
> samples periodically both Yesterday and Today. None of the samples
> contained ANY data for Nov. 16th.
>
> This brings up other possible sources for data which are most compatible
> with AmiQuote. Would you state the current position of the data
> distribution - as you know it?
>
> In what little investigation I have done in the past 4 days or so, the
best
> possibility might be that Quote.com seems to be a possible data source. As
> mentioned on the HQuote.com site, Quote.com - now a part of E*Trade
> brokerage, will supply data both EOD and RT, if you sign up with HQuote
as
> a distribution point & Quote.com as the supplier, for their RT Live Charts
> service. This is $9.95 plus $1/month for each of the markets you are
> interested in so this is $10.95 for NYSE, $11.95 for Nasdaq & NYSE, etc.,
> etc.. This seems to be the service that I would like, but I don't want to
> get the downloads through HQuote.com because Dr. Nates' last message told
> of his difficulty with the speed of the HQuote.coms' server.
>
> Yesterday when I was at the Quote.com site researching the above
> information, I sent them an e-mail query which requested information on
the
> code necessary to download from their site. I have NOT received an answer
> as yet, as the weekends are a poor time to expect any site to be active.
So
> Monday, if I receive an answer I will immediately forward it to you,
hoping
> that it might help your US market followers cure the present Yahoo
problem.
> What I'm working towards is to get you to try to get this answer. One of
my
> MAIN problems, is that even if they provide me with information relating
to
> the means of access, I won't know what to do with it!
>
> It seems to me, that they would be tempted to provide information to a
> person who might be worth $$'s to them through the users of your program.
>
> I wouldn't bother you, but it does seem that this is a bit more than Yahoo
> cleaning up their system, and you are the person with "clout" that could
> get Quote.com to provide an answer to this problem.
>
> Thanks for Listening,
>
> Hal
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