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Re: Want inexpensive source for end-of-day data



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Hello Jay,

I have been using pinnacle (www.pinnacledata.com) for the last year
and a bit and they have been excellent - 70 commodities back adjusted
in ASCII for $12/mo. The software works well and is reliable.

Ed LaPavia is the man - very helpful.

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Best regards,
 Ross                       mail to: ross.bond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thursday, August 23, 2001, 3:44:51 AM, you wrote:

JM> I am still running TS 4, and only trade end-of-day.  I had been
JM> using Prophet as my data source, and was pretty happy with
JM> them - for $19.95/mo they provided an internet download
JM> that looked enough like Dial Data to fool the Omega
JM> downloader into accepting it quite seamlessley.

JM> However, Prophet has increased their rates by 50% - to
JM> $29.95/mo (or more if you need long-term historic
JM> data, access to option markets, ...     I should not be
JM> quoting their rate structure for them).  I felt that there is
JM> so much free charting available over the internet that
JM> for my level of trading it would be nuts to pay $360/year
JM> for data.  However, every once in awhile, it would be
JM> nice to run a TradeStation study on current S&P, Bond,
JM> or other common data series.

JM> Short of begging paste-in files from the folks on this
JM> list, are there any other sources inexpensive, end-of-
JM> day data available?

JM> Regards

JM> Jay Mackro