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Hi,
I've been lurking on this list for about 8 months now, and have been using
Stockwiz Pro/iSoft to get my EOD data for about 9 months for $US10/mth.
Joining fee is now $200 (soon to be $700) and includes a couple of years of
data and their StockWiz program. Demos & free trial data is available.
Each night there are 2 downloads available, splits, fundamentals, indices,
Canadian stocks, and a very powerful & fast language built into the
stockwiz program if you choose to use it. - or you can just download the
every US stock as a zipped Ascii file in about 1 minute.
There were some teething problems with the program about 6 months ago while
they converted from DOS to Windows 32bit format - to be expected - but now
downloading & getting data into Metastock is just a few mouse clicks - or
you can automate it. (The program can export data over any range of days &
stocks into the metastock format for the Downloader.)
I have not had any problems accessing the site and no problems with the
data.
http://www.stockwiz.com/
While I'm here I would also like to thank everyone for the way you share
information. I have learned a lot from my lurking & look forward to be able
to contribute sometime.
Cheers from New Zealand
Chris
Dick wrote:
> John, I threw in the towel with Telescan after bad data
> continued for a full year after they said they planned to
> "get it straightened out once and for all with their data
> vendor".......It's just not worth the headaches...There's too
> many different ways to get data and do "pro-searches"
> in other ways these days, and Tscn just isn't competitive
> anymore....Especially for what they charge and the way
> you get nickel and dimed to death.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnonetoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Johnonetoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 7:02 PM
> Subject: What's worse than no data? !
>
> >Just a quick note to see if anybody else has been experiencing the bad
> >data from Telescan like I have for almost a week. Several stocks and
> >indices as well as whole folders have the decimal point "shifted" so
> >that as an example the dow might read as a 760. Telescan says "there's
> >something wrong with one of the servers and we don't know which". The
> >suggestion they made was to delete all the offending data, turn off the
> >copmuter to shut down the power to the modem then re-download. This has
> >been going on for days, amazing how the people over there all seem so
> >brain dead. Anybody else having the same errors? What's worse than not
> >getting your data? How about getting crap and then having to delete it
> >all before trying again the next day.
> >
> >Are there any equity/fund/index data vendors without all the problems?
> >Last time I saw angry posts it was aimed at Reuters, hell, they were my
> >alternative if the Telescan crap continued.
> >
> >... John
> >
> >ps: I havn't had any bad trades, I'm angry at Telescan incompetance.
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