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Re: BMI Questions



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BMI could solve their problem simply by restoring the feed
content/configuration to what it was before they started screwing with
dropping international, Canadian stuff and messing with the CBOE input.

BobR

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Allen <jallen7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tagteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <tagteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Omega Mail List
<omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, June 24, 1999 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: BMI Questions


>With all the complaining about BMI/Signal and other R/t providers on this
list,
>why the hell isn't everybody going to FutureSource or CQG?  Never any
>complaints about those.
>
>Of course, FS and CQG are more expensive, but as the old rancher always
said,
>sometimes the cheapest oats have already been run through the horse.
>
>Isn't there too much money at stake to be putting up with toys?
>
>Jim Allen
>
>tagteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Has anyone using a BMI RT feed noticed the following?
>>
>> 1) There's no tick volume for the E-Mini S&P. I could have sworn that BMI
>> transmitted tick volume in the past.....they do it for the stocks. Did
>> this, in fact, change?
>>
>> 2) Indices are =real= slow to update. For example, earlier I heard one of
>> the guys on LOS call NASDAQ Cash down 37.20......didn't show up on the
>> screen for almost half a minute. I understand that they transmit $NDX
>> around every 15 seconds but at times I've noticed that there are no
updates
>> for circa 30 seconds. Similarly, $INDU is =usually= updated every 3-5
>> seconds but on occasion there are gaps of 10 seconds or more. I don't
>> recall it being this slow in the past. Could it be things are
>> deteriorating........further??
>>
>> TIA for any feedback.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jim
>
>