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David, If you run the integrity check every day and delete the blocks of
resent data, then you will not accumulate enough errors to cause a problem.
I found running the integrity check once a week keeps the accumulated errors
low enough not to crash TS4, however, waiting two weeks is usually too long.
At once a week, it takes over an hour to run the integrity check on my tick
data. If FutureSource would correct the defect, I could use this hour for
something other than cleaning their data. I use 20 days of tick data for
charting (155 to 400 tick bars). I haven't tried the Dynastore interface
because at the time, the required UMDS was not available. If I'm
misunderstanding the software required to use TS4 with DTN, please let me
know. On the sales tax issue, after talking with Doug Brunner, the contact
person at FutureSource, I asked him to have Chris Mahlman (president), or
John Shillaci (COO) to return my call if they were interested in my paying
the "uncollected sales tax" and explain why I should be held to the
FutureSource "agreement" if FutureSource was refusing to honor the same
agreement? By the way, I contacted the Texas Comptrollers Office and was
told they do not consider me responsible for owing the tax, so my position
will probably be this: As I was quoted a monthly price for a data feed and
told that price included any and all fees, and that each month I submitted a
payment, my account was "Paid In Full", how can I owe anything else? I'll
see what happens.
regards,
Joe Cansler mailto:jcansler@datarecall.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "david b. stanley" <davestan@swbell.net>
To: "Joe Cansler" <jcansler@datarecall.net>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: FutureSource Data
: Whoa! I'm in Texas too. Guess I ought to open that envelope.
: I assume you tried every possible avenue to get TS4 to work on
: DTN tick data properly with the Dynastore interface? I haven't
: looked into that yet.
: By the way, I use the integrity check daily on my mini data and
: use 12 days of 400 tick bar charts without crashes.
:
: dbs
:
: Joe Cansler wrote:
:
: > Just a point or two I would like to add regarding FutureSource data. IF
you
: > trade using tick data and TS4, you must already know about the resending
of
: > blocks of tick data (sometimes 30 to 50 ticks per resent block) which
makes
: > the datafeed lag behind by up to 15 seconds, yes, FIFTEEN SECONDS behind
: > DTN. I compared the feeds side by side and I have watched FutureSource
data
: > lag behind DTN each time the bad blocks are resent, 25 to 30 blocks of
data
: > are resent each week in the E-Mini Nasdaq and the E-Mini S&P usually has
: > about the same, this means there are 25 to 30 times each and every week
: > where your real time tick data can lag DTN or any other average quality
: > datafeed feed by 10-15 seconds in these markets. Whether this is
important
: > for everyone, I can't say. All you need to do is run the integrity check
and
: > you will discover the errors. This occurs mainly on the E-Mini Nasdaq
and
: > E-Mini S&P contracts. As I stated previously, these errors will collect
in
: > the data files and will cause a crash in TS4, if you use tick based
charts
: > that are built using more than a couple days of data. Also, I used the
: > CalcSource DDE link from FutureSource and there is no refresh data
: > correction available with any time-frame, variable, daily, weekly or
: > perpetual. Anyone considering FutureSource data should be aware of the
: > limitations and defects with FutureSource. Also, just received my
Christmas
: > present from FutureSource, a letter informing me FutureSource was
unaware of
: > Texas sales tax regulations and I now owe them sales tax they failed to
: > charge for 1997 to present, amounting to $1,053.
: > (one-thousand-fifty-three-dollars). And I still waiting on a
: > follow-up call from Mr. John Schillaci, COO of FutureSource, regarding
his
: > promise of having a programmer hired to write a patch to allow the
export
: > function to export useable data in ASCII format. (over 3 months and
still
: > waiting). I've concluded that I can live with a faster datafeed (DTN),
: > although I do miss the refresh abilities of FutureSource, but surely I
can
: > purchase clean refresh data if I need it, with the $250.
: > (two-hundred-fifty-dollars) I save every month. And I do miss TS4. Just
my
: > thoughts....
: >
: > Joe Cansler <<jcansler@datarecall.net<<
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