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<x-html><html><head></head><BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p><font size=2 color="#000000" face="Arial"><br>What are the advantages to RTD?<br><br>Canadian stocks<br>BB stocks<br><br>If you miss two weeks because you were on vacation you don't have to download 10 different QPlus files.<br><br>Does anyone recommend a different data provider for Canadian Stocks (I know you don't follow Canadian stocks Richard)<br><br>Dave<br><br><br>> From: Richard Estes <<font color="#0000FF"><u>rtestes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx</u><font color="#000000">><br>> To: <font color="#0000FF"><u>metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</u><font color="#000000"><br>> Subject: Re: Reuters -- Not Able To Download<br>> Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 2:52 PM<br>> <br>> Do y'all mean that RTD doesn't provide a full download of stocks in one<br>> swoop. You are having to restrict how many you download, unbelievable! I<br>> download all us stocks (except BBs) and mutual funds in less than 2 minutes.<br>> Why are y'all talking about timeouts? What torture chamber does your data<br>> come through? Do they auto correct, auto split, data. What are advantages to<br>> RTD?<br>> <br><br></p>
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> Do y'all mean that RTD doesn't provide a full download of stocks in one
> swoop. You are having to restrict how many you download, unbelievable! I
> download all us stocks (except BBs) and mutual funds in less than 2
minutes.
> Why are y'all talking about timeouts? What torture chamber does your data
> come through? Do they auto correct, auto split, data. What are advantages
to
> RTD?
>
> Richard Estes
It is a real pain in the butt with RTD. Sure, they autocorrect, autosplit,
but
my 9000 stocks take about an HOUR to download! The only reason I have
stuck with them is because it is "easy" to use. I start it and come back
an hour later. But, NOW, I have to keep coming back and retrying....
Randy Given
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