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>Morris
>
> >> What is the best (least lag, not the cheapest) datafeed for trading
> the eminis with T2000i? <<
>
>I have found that eSignal provides me the best bang for my buck, lowest
>lag, highest reliability, of any internet delivered feed.
>
>I have used, in some cases extensively:
>- PC Quote Hyperfeed (more disconnects than eSignal; less stability than
>eSignal; more stability than Quote.com)
>
>- RealTick driven by PCQuote (forced to by a broker once upon a time)
>
>- QFeed from Quote.com in conjunction with Dynastore (the incompetence of
>Quote.com management astounds me, and I come from a management consulting
>background)
>
>- eSignal - my clear choice.
>
>By far the fewest problems have been with the eSignal feed.
>
>By far the most problems have been with Quote.com. By far they are the
>slowest to resolve problems and you only need visit their discussion
>threads on Silicon Investor or email group on Yahoo Groups to get a flavour.
>
>By far the most disconnections were with PCQuote. Brief, but disconcerting
>none the less.
>
>In spring of 2000 I detected a lag problem with the emini - reported it to
>DBC and they had a technician on the phone with me the same day working to
>source the cause of the problem. Within 24 hours they had determined that
>a load balancing algorithm needed tweaking and the issue was resolved.
>
>When I look at GlobalServer's event log tab I don't see a single
>disconnection since I last restarted my TS2ki machine a month ago. When I
>set my charts to display empty intraday bars / daily bars, I don't see any
>missing bars except for holidays and the day that the CME had an issue.
>
>When I used Quote.com to feed TS2ki, in fast markets, frequently the
>market would be 2-10, sometimes even 15 seconds ahead of Quote.com, this
>as compared my broker's interface (InteractiveBrokers) which I have come
>to generally trust.
>
>With eSignal I do not note this at all. Perhaps occasionally charts or
>broker will be slightly different for a split second - last week I think I
>detected some data lag coming from Interactivebrokers briefly.
>
>During strongly trending markets I frequently drop down to 1 minute time
>frames. Its been very productive over the past 20 days or so as you
>probably can imagine. With Quote.com I would rarely drop down to 1M
>timeframes since the data was just too unreliable in that time resolution.
>
>Bottom line - I have no hesitation in recommending eSignal for
>TradeStation 2000i users.
>
>PS: I noted on a public eSignal forum on Silicon Investor that DBC will be
>providing **trade volume** on the emini at some point in the future. I
>subscribe to eSignal anyways, but that will be a terrific extra benefit
>when they deliver. I only hope that TradeStation 2ki will be able to
>handle the data -- I don't know what the specifics are of delivering trade
>volume to us will be, hopefully that is something that DBC will consider
>the needs of TradeStation 2000i users when they role that feature out.
>
>Best regards,
>Michael
>
>
>IntelligentSpeculator.com
>Michael Watkins
>Chief Technical Officer
>mwatkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IntelligentSpeculator.com
Michael Watkins
Chief Technical Officer
mwatkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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