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I just signed up for Reuters after being with Prophet for over a year. I
started Prophet when they were about the only Internet service where you
could get futures data. The day I signed up with Reuters this thread
started: I gotta tell you I was less than thrilled, so I spent the weekend
comparing Prophet to Reuters, and guess what? Where there are
errors/inconsistencies/fuck-ups/anomalies (whatever you want to call it)
Reuters is right more often than Prophet, and I can tell you that the
Prophet data has never caused me any problems.
I case you ask "Why switch?" A couple of weeks ago Prophet's feed dropped
an entire Friday's (I think it was Friday) worth of data. I got nothing,
nada, zip, the big goose egg on Monday morning. Luckily I had nothing on,
but this had to be a problem for some people.
Prophet is in California, but the markets are in the east, and they don't
run a night shift, so the problem wasn't even detected until 8:30 or so
California time. This is lunch time where I am (Toronto, Canada), and the
New York markets are going downhill to closing. This is the second time
I've needed service and couldn't get through because of the time difference,
so...
BTW - the Downloader is much easier to get along with than Prophet's updater
(a real pig - gets in the way allot), and historical, continuous data is
free at Reuters. Prophet wants to charge you.
Carey Barnett
mailto:cbarnett@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://webhome.idirect.com/~cbarnett/
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Remember "Burned bridges can't even be used for firewood."
Yeah, I know about charcoal. Gimme a break! ...cb'94
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