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Re: Drop in number of ticks for OEX/SPX



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On Feb 8,  9:57am, IUhrik@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Subject: Drop in number of ticks for OEX/SPX
> Has anyone following OEX and SPX indexes on BMI cable/TS4 noticed a 
> drop in the number of ticks recently?
> 
> BMI usually sends 4 ticks per minute. Friday afternoon, at 2:56pm 
> the rate of ticks received dropped significantly -- to less than 1 tick per 
> minute -- and remained there for the rest of the day. The problem 
> continued Monday since the open until 1:02PM and reappeared today 
> since the open.

FYI. it is my understanding that the exchanges send out a quote
on the OEX and SPX cash once every 15 secs.  I doubt the exchanges
changed their policy, but maybe BMI did?