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I don't doubt your story - but I guess it depends what you're using DialData for and how you're using it. In my case - I started using it to update (not download) a relatively small database (150 symbols) of indices, stocks and mutual funds I had put together from other sources. I look at the data
every day - and pick up (and clean up) the occasional bad data point. Also - I use the Downloader from Equis - which seems to work very well with DialData (both the old Downloader for DOS and the new Downloader for Windows seem to work equally well). Note that the Downloader catches possible errors in
the data (like a close that's lower than the reported low). Also note that the data I get is in Metastock rmat.
Also - note that I keep backups - and backups of my backups (I've never lost data because of the Downloader, DialData or Omega - but I have lost data due to computer malfunctions and user stupidity). I can recommend the Iomega zip drive as a fairly convenient way to backup databases - particularly
those that you've worked long and hard to assemble. Robyn
Alexander Levitin wrote:
Alexander Levitin wrote:
> Dear Robyn:
>
> I agree with you that you may not think so but insist that it was "an
> accurate statement".
>
> I subscribe to DialDate for many years, after Omega Research introduced
> it to my life by sending me data on CD (the data on CD is from
> DialData). I tried to download the data daily to keep up the database,
> but downloading would simple did not worked: only part of the data would
> go through. I spend countless hours trying to fix the problem: Dial Data
> blames Omega Research, telephone company, my computer, my modem, my
> cats. Omega Research blames Dial Data... You get the picture.
>
> I give up on keeping database current and dreamed about using DialData
> for the research. When I download history of individual stock the data
> was not terrible, it was horrible. Any quality control procedure would
> catch out of range data but is was no quality and no procedure at
> DialData.
>
> I simple give up on DialData. Then one day my INDU data was lost (I
> collected it from Signal and BMI for many years). "True" or "Print" is
> an opposite to the "Theoretical" highs and laws. I spend several weeks
> talking to DialData and to Omega Research trying to find out under what
> symbol they have "theoretical" INDU data and which symbol contain the
> "true" data. I talked, I emailed, I faxed. I was run around for weeks
> and weeks. Did I found the answer? No.
>
> My two cats were eaten by coyotes. But as long as I live I will keep
> telling people: stay out of DialData as far as you can.
>
> Very truly yours,
>
> Alex.
>
> P.S. I have experience with Signal, BMI, DialData, Telescan, Tick Data,
> Foundation for the Study of Cycles, Wall Street Interactive, and
> Telechart 2000 databases. DialData is the worst.
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