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Neither DTN nor Omega has fixed the market stat problem in SP4. DTN
transmits Adv/Dec Vol, Adv/Dec Issues and Tot Vol for all exchanges in a
composite symbol. Because 3 or 4 values are contained in one symbol (@VSN
for example has adv/dec/unch/tot vol) you cannot chart or use any of the
individual values in easy language. SP4 allows you to chart the composite
symbol as a daily bar which to me is completely useless. I need the
intraday ticks for each value.
The solution is to split the individual values into separate symbols.
Comstock did this at the request of me and other traders. To date DTN has
failed to even acknowledge my emails and/or telephone requests. Omega has
contacted DTN at my request asking them to split the symbols. Omega QA dept
is monitoring issue and will keep me informed. More complaints to DTN from
customers/prospective customers will help.
Bill Wood
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Mi [mailto:ami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 4:38 PM
> To: omegalist
> Subject: Re: Historybank Help
>
>
> > Some important symbols are there but have no data
> > associated with them, either at the Website or on the CD.
> > I've talked to Omega and written them emails ...
>
> Me too. So I guess lots of us did and they are well aware of it.
> If the data vendor is set to Signal, the symbols are $ADV $DECL,
> $UCHG, $ADVQ, $DECLQ, $UCHGQ, $UVOL $DVOL, $UCHGVOL, $TVOL,
> $UVOLQ, $DVOLQ $UCHGVOLQ, $TVOLQ.
>
> Every new HB CD is likely to have some (more) of these removed
> from GS portfolio; they are all in the dictionary and we need to
> add them back in for receiving anything. Quote.com had to split
> up symbols of NYSE adv dec issues etc. from a single SPComStock
> symbol $ISSU, in which an indicator field tells the tick to be an
> adv or a decl issue, etc (etc meaning up/down/unch vol ... too,
> see http://www.taltrade.com/products/support/faq/faq.asp). When I
> was beta testing QCharts, I kept pounding on them all along for
> doing this symbol split. Quote.com later creates their propritory
> symbols for them: QC:ADVN.NY and QC:DECL.NY etc. If HB data
> source is DTN, they do the same kludge to overload more than one
> market statistics onto a single symbol but a previous posting
> here seems to suggest that they made changes to provide single
> symbol for each statistics now. Whatever HB's upperstream is, HB
> needs to do the split like Quote.com once did to be able to
> listen to and record these all important market bredth data.
>
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