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If your talking about Prophet data service, it was terrible for my
stock quotes. You can expect 3-4 days a month where the service
took all night to download stock data. I don't have any experience
with futures data.
If your looking for stock data, I'd highly recommend Quotes Plus at
www.qp2.com. Fast, efficient downloads. I get all 10,000 stocks
downloaded and updated in my database in less than 10 minutes a
night.
Don
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John R.
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 1:00 AM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Reuter Trend Datalink problems
>
>
> Justin/All...
>
> What is the procedure to quit Reuters? Must it only be done at the end
> of the month? I'm considering ProfitDirect, does anyone use that
> service?
>
> Thanks, John
>
>
>
> Justin Case wrote:
> >
> > Winthorpe wrote:
> >
> > > Today is 4/29/99 and this is the "second" day in a row that I
> have been
> > unable
> > > to download quotes here in San Francisco. I keep getting ID
> 800 timeout
> > errors.
> > > Can anyone from Equis or Reuters please shed some light on
> this matter.
> > This
> > > on-going problem is getting rreal real old!
> >
> > Tomorrow is 4/30/99 and my very last day ever of having to put up with
> > Reuters...THE worst data service around. I am swtiching to
> Pinnacle Data for
> > futures and index data (http://www.pinnacledata.com); they are widely
> > acknowledged to have the cleanest EOD data in the commodity business (no
> > stock data); and either Quotes Plus (http://www.qp2.com) or StockWiz
> > (http://www.stockwiz.com) for stock data.
> >
> > I have suffered with Reuters' awful data, late data delivery
> (sometimes as
> > late as the the middle of the NEXT day for futures) and
> inadequate customer
> > support for months longer than I should have...my only reason for having
> > stayed with Reuters this long is that my neural network timing models,
> > several hundred of them, will be invalidated when I switch over to
> > Pinnacle's new symbols...and I will have to build new ones from scratch.
> >
> > I don't see why anyone that has a choice in the matter would continue to
> > tolerate such bad service for such a high price. Do yourself a favor and
> > switch...you'll likely save yourself a lot of money in the long run, and
> > more importantly, a lot of frustration.
>
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