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> Hans wrote
> snip
> "wrong - shoud read ...."so much for CME/TOPS/CUBS/GLOBEX" or whatever
> part of the amateurish system is involved and fails - there are REAL
> electronic exchanges (like DTB) who handle 10-100fold the volume of emini
> and hardly fail at all since YEARS !.....maybe they still run it on
> 80286`s in chicago or the UPS runs out of petrol <g>"
> He must be mistaken
> as the DTB namely the DAX, was down for 20 to 25 minutes the other day. I
> should know as I was in a trade of 5 lots at $285 a point(500DM). The
> daily range can be more than 100 points in a day.All systems at some point
> in time will have problems.
I didnt say the DTB has never problems, but they offer a much bigger variety on
products, order types and VOLUME - it still fails lot less,,,,,,and e.g BUNDS
trade couple of hundred thousands each day - wonder how much steam the
GLOBEX machine would produce on such volume. :-))
rgds hans
rgds hans
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