Thanks for the
info Richard…and a useful heads up. I’m not a regular stocks/shares
trader anyway, but that’s all useful stuff to know and explains many of
the observations I’ve made over the years.
It does seem a
shame to have to omit the AIM and TSE listings in particular, seeing as they
contain so many good (and very dodgy!) small cap natural resource listings…
as on the ASX. Hopefully you’ll find a solution one day - your comments
about reliability of data are well made though and go double for such issues.
In the
meantime will look into switching over for the futures and US listings.
Cheers
Andy
From:
equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Dale
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:19 AM
To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [EquisMetaStock
Group] Question for Richard Dale
Hi Andy,
Right now we don't have any immediate
plans for Canadian or European data. We tried to come up with a decent
LSE feed about a year and a half ago, but found that there were significant
problems with regards to the way the LSE provides data.
There are multiple trading systems, some
market-maker driven, some electronic order book and some a hybrid of the
two. Some stocks traded on multiple systems. There was also a
problem in that many markets were reported as a mid-point between the bid and ask,
rather than the actual trades that went through. This, we think, was due
in part to the LSE allowing trades to be reported up to two hours later than
they occur.
We surveyed multiple data sources for the
data and found that there were rarely agreements between the different data
sources. Given the unreliability of such data, we decided that it was
prudent not to offer data that was so inaccurate. We'll have another look
at it in the future - hopefully the LSE will have a definition of what
they consider to be the official open, high, low, close and volume.
Best regards,
Richard Dale.
Norgate Investor Services
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From:
Andy [mailto:AndyDavidson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, 14 October 2005 7:25
PM
To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group]
Question for Richard Dale
Richard,
Lots of rave reviews lately which is great
to see. The only thing stopping me personally from switching right now is this
question of coverage. Any comments on whether you intend to cover the Canadian
and/or European (esp. LSE) markets in the near future?
Andy
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