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JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE PARANOID, IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE NOT OUT TO GET YOU!
Of course they could add bandwith: but everything has a price. Apparantly the
bottom line indicates that it would not be profitable. Only if the competition
is eating up their customer base will they make the changes necessary to
compete. Otherwise, it's business as usual, which is "do nothing". There's no
conspiracy. Just a business decision, however strange it seems to us. The
rumor about real time for the price of delayed would be just cutting their
profits with no big benefit. And the exchanges would laugh in their face to be
asked to waive the exchange fees. The best idea that I can see is to go to
futures only, like TJ has said, to improve their quality dramatically, which
would allow them to continue with high prices. But you can't have both poor
quality and high prices or you die as a business. ("Dah, it gives me a clean
close shave, coach").
Don
Brian Massey wrote:
> "I don't buy for a second the
> BMI claim that they can't add bandwidth."
>
> I'll go even one further: I bet they slow it intentionally. What ever
> happened to BMI's brand new 56K V-Line before DBC bought BMI out? I
> remember having to back down to 36.6 after DBC got their grimy ass hands on
> it.
>
> Riddle me that DBC, you fn crooks!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dennis Holverstott [mailto:dennis@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 1:18 PM
> > To: Omega List
> > Subject: Comstock and quote.com
> >
> >
> > Riddle me this. :-) Everyone seems to praise Comstock as a "premium"
> > data feed and everyone ridicules quote.com's obviously crummy EOD data.
> > Problem is quote.com gets their crummy data from Comstock. So is
> > Comstock really any good or does everyone just assume it is because it
> > costs so much? Will tradestation.com have the same crummy EOD data as
> > quote.com?
> >
> > ps - sorry TJ but I'll take realtime quote.com tick data for the e-mini
> > over BMI any day. You must have lousy internet service to be so critical
> > of quote.com. It ain't perfect but, on balance, it's a better tick feed
> > than BMI.
> >
> > pps - I'll second the hope that DTN doesn't go away. They are a Bridge
> > feed which seems to have better EOD data than Comstock and they have
> > enough bandwidth to handle all the ticks. I don't buy for a second the
> > BMI claim that they can't add bandwidth. They just want to force
> > everybody to use E-Signal cuz it's cheaper and easier for them. Problem
> > is there are better internet feeds than E-Signal so it's lose/lose for
> > DBC and BMI.
> >
> > --
> > Dennis
> >
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