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John,
Thanks for your suggestions. I tried all that and still have problems.
Yesterday, I was unable to ONLY download the 256 Canadian stocks I
keep track of even if the US markets where closed. So...
Ps: not to mention they don't even react this time...
-----Original Message-----
From: John Rastutis <Johnonetoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: Reuters Download Problems
>All Reuters customers...
>
>In the short time I have been using Reuters as my provider I have
found
>an obvious correlation with downloading errors and "heavy usage
days".
>
>The service is at its worst on huge price/volume days in the stock
>markets. The night at the end of a weekend or holiday also seems to
be
>troublesome.
>
>IMHO Reuters won't admit that the service doesn't have the capacity
for
>"everybody" to download on those peak days.
>
>With some simple experimentation I have found that even on those very
>heavy days if I reduce my request for symbols down to the most
>essential, I can avoid those errors. In my case that's requesting a
>couple hundred issues verses my usual 1200 or so. Then the next day
at a
>"quiet" download time I will go back and get the rest of my data.
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>Best... John
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