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----- Original Message -----
From: Barry Burgess <bburgess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Simon Campbell <s.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Datafeed
> Simon I beg to differ. It totally depends on the Market you trade.
> If you trade the FTSE or DAX the USA providers are one of the worse.
> Lets give you am example - no names of course.
> Lets take the DAX (Eurex is now the largest including the CME) The data is
> supplied via telephone line to a distributor in London. There is a
telephone
> line from the distributor to you European HQ in London. The HQ in London
> sends the data via telephone line to New York. From NY it is routed via
WAN
> to Salt Lake City then on to the Data factory in California. It is then
sent
> back to London to be uplifted to some middle eastern TV station that send
> the data with its picture.
> Surely a European provider can get the data from Eurex in Frankfurt and
> uplift it using a German channel to ASTRA quicker.
> Follow a similar logic from CME to Frankfurt - it all depends on the speed
> of the telephone connection.
> The more users the feed has the more it can spend on the telephone line or
> the more profit it can make
> Also consider that if the Data provider only supplies futures data the
band
> width is much less.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Simon Campbell <s.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 6:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Datafeed
>
>
> > Seeing that your email address is the Netherlands, the feed that best
> meets
> > your criteria is DBC Signal. The "best" feeds for TS 4.0 in Europe
> > (FutureSource and Comstock) are ridiculously overpriced compared to what
> > they charge their US customers. BMI is not available in Europe. There
> are
> > cheaper feeds like BIS, Tenfore etc. but the reliability of these is
very
> > questionable e.g. many lost ticks throughout the day. Although not
> perfect
> > (particularly in the first hour of trading), Signal is the feed that
most
> > closely matches your criteria. As an aside, their European satellite
> > version is actually much more reliable and faster than their US cable
> > version (which is known to be awful). Their European HQ in London is:
+44
> > 171 793 3106
> >
> > Rgds
> > Simon.
> >
> > At 10:38 08/08/99 +0200, you wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I'm looking for a TS 4 compatible datafeed, to trade the SP500 future.
> > >It Has to be RT, reliable and cheap.
> > >Any suggestions?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >Jacko
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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