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Earl -
Signal has its own ticker plant, with redundency, located in the San
Francisco area. Prior to acquiring Signal, DBC used Telekurs as its feed,
and Comstock before that. Of course, the Telekurs feed was previously owned
by S&P, which shortly after divestiture bought Comstock. Are you following
this?
A ticker plant isn't that costly to operate; in the early '90's, the Signal
set-up was three VAX minis.
JFB
Shaven Heads Trading NYC
-----Original Message-----
From: Earl Adamy [mailto:eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 1998 5:54 AM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Data Wholesalers and Symbols
I'm not sure how the wholesale end of the data business works, but I believe
there are a limited number of wholesalers which feed data to the various
real
time and EOD providers. A bulliten from DTN within past few days indicates
they
use feed from Bridge. From the description of the BMI symbols, it would
appear
that BMI might also be using Bridge while the Signal symbols appear to be
sourced elsewhere. If DTN and BMI are sharing the same feed, it is hard to
see
how BMI can justify a basic setup and fee structure which is approximately
twice
DTN's. Telescan's symbol structure is also quite similar. Would be
interesting
to identify the wholesalers used by the various major providers.
Earl
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