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Hi Bill !
Would it be interesting to centralise all the complain on a web site ?
and to give a feed back on all the development ?
Emmanuel
----- Original Message -----
From: William R Wood <wrwood@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Alan Mi <ami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; omegalist <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 25, 1999 9:40 AM
Subject: RE: Historybank Help-DTN Market Stats
> 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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