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Don...
I appreciate the warning about Profit data, I will stay away.
Once again, Quotes Plus is looking like the best choice.
Regards... John
Don Rea wrote:
>
> 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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