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I've been looking at the new Quote Center upgrade. It's hot.
It's for intraday data. It doesn't provide any EOD benefits.
I use both EOD and intraday data. If you are using both Reuters and
Esignal the price will be about the same $120 per month. If you're
only using Esignal, it will double the price but you get a lot more
data and it's clean data with tick data being adjusted for splits and
one year's worth of intraday history on any time frame except tick.
It has a lot of other information including Level II data (if you pay
$600 a year extra for it), 700 stock metrics like dividends, ex-data,
pay dates, fundementals etc (included in the $120/mo). You'll get a
sales pitch that tells you the very basic information. It's incomplete
as far as detail but it gives you an idea of the reams of informaiton
you can have, including loads of international data.
The bad news is you have to type in a country code in front of every
symbol. So IBM becomes US:IBM. That's a real pain in the ass.
In addition, I would have to rework all my layouts, etc. I don't know
if I want to spend that much time redoing everything. Otherwise, I
would switch in the morning.
The problem could have been handled by a conversion routine in MS
itself and not in the quote center, but Equis didn't want to provide one.
I already make enough typing errors. Now I'm going to have ten times
as many key strokes issues getting symbols into my layouts.
For those of you with 8 or more eyes, for $50 a month extra you can
have 1000 symbols open at a time. That ought to make you dizzy.
There is an Esignal version available which has a few bug fixes in it
but you can't access all the new stuff from Esignal.
For those who use Esignal intraday, you already know that Esignal
doesn't fix their tick data for splits, which is a major pain. Maybe
Esignal will be forced to get off their rears and automate the tick
fix so they can update intraday data for splits!
Don't ask me any questions because I don't know the answers yet. I
haven't got the upgrade, but it looks like informaiton overload which
every trader wants to have even if they don't use it. Right now I use
multiple programs to get the info that it looks like I'll be able to
get out of MS directly. That's good. Now if I had a typist to enter my
symbols, everything would work.
If you want info you can call Equis at 1 800 587-8062.
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