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Peter,
I wouldn't think it's your machine mine is not that fast and I didn't
see a problem with DTN satellite. I would take a long look at your
data supplier and how it is transmitted to you.
Jimmy Snowden
Friday, March 7, 2003, 6:16:46 PM, you wrote:
PL> Yep, I've got a comment and a question for anyone.
PL> Around 10:15am Eastern Time today (3/7/03) I had a very strange
PL> occurrence.
PL> Volume was clearly very high on the E-Mini at the time. Not sure if was
PL> Blix or the Bin Laden's son's news, but the volume was very high for
PL> several minutes.
PL> My data started to slow (esignal cable feed). My charts that were
PL> "timed", one, three and five minute etc. seemed to be keeping up, but
PL> the bid/ask quotes (small Radar screen window) were clearly lagging by a
PL> good 10 seconds.
PL> Then I noticed that although the minute charts were leaping around, my
PL> tic charts were terribly far behind. It wasn't until 2 minutes had past
PL> that my tic charts finally caught up to the minute charts. Very
PL> disconcerting.
PL> On a separate computer I had my trading platform, PFG that gives quotes
PL> from a feed other than esignal so I know the minute charts were doing a
PL> good job of staying current, but I just sat stunned watching those tic
PL> charts. Now I have a pentium 4, 1.7 GHz with 1 gig of ram on Windows XP
PL> Pro running TS 2000i. I've never seen this before, and have always
PL> thought my machine was fast enough to keep that globalserver happy.
PL> Maybe I'm wrong. Usually I have nothing else running on my TS machine,
PL> but I did have MS Outlook and Pal Talk open too.
PL> I immediately closed down all the other programs, and on TS kept only
PL> one workspace open, but the tic charts were still quite far behind.
PL> So, what do we think? I keep my machine "clean" and running as fast as I
PL> can, fixing errors, cleaning the registry, and defragging regularly.
PL> What happened? Any comments or suggested solutions appreciated.
PL> Peter
PL> -----Original Message-----
PL> From: chaims [mailto:chaims@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
PL> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:53 AM
PL> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
PL> Subject: BMI datafeed
PL> Anyone still using BMI for nasdaq stocks?
PL> Already quite a while the T/S data seems totally off.
PL> Missing trades, wrong prices, wrong size.
PL> The bid/ask quotes seem to be OK, although everything is quite slow.
PL> I am on cable and the delay seems to be about 10 secs.
PL> Any comments?
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