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Mark,
sometimes you hit me with overload...but please keep it coming :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Brown" <markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 5:54 PM
Subject: Data Feeds
> Hello ,
>
> ok i have dumped dtn satellite as of just after the first of the year
> because of continual monday morning problems, where they took it upon
> themselves to change files on my system with no apparent regard to
> the consequences to ts2ki.
>
> i have just dumped quote.com because of continual server farm hopping
> and their fictitious security claiming non existent multiple log
> in attempts. not to mention their rubber band data delivery which
> conveniently sends real time data delayed.
>
> i lament over the old bmi service though it was slow it was dependable
> and multi seat friendly. as well as the dbc blackbox predecessor via
> fm or sat. oh well those days will never return i guess - had to be
> the all time dependable service.
>
> sp comstock with it's convoluted symbols and insane expense will also
> gather dust in the corner of my minds real time data debacles as i
> recall having to align an impossible finicky now defunct equatorial sat
> dish. oh those were the days and trying to multi seat that one was a
> feat that only products from blackbox could tackle.
>
> cqg - expensive, arrogant bull headed and convoluted symbology and
> lying when they say you can program your own studies. the most
> dependable accurate and take total control of your computer everything
> else be dammed data feed in existence. now for the bad cons.
>
> pc quote - been 1990's since i used this one now some new name i
> guess. in the old days i had a os2 dedicated server just to receive the
> data which came in in quantities large enough to drown you. constant
> software upgrades and weird things happening. but wins award for most
> data transmitted fastest.
>
> futuresource - other that esignal it's the only pay for every exchange
> and we give you limited symbols feed i know of. the nerve of fs to
> take my money and deliver me limited symbols. it's astonishing and
> the clunky software reminded me of 80's dos ware. there net feed isn't
> used by them i guess otherwise they would know that they are missing
> option quotes which occur every month on some futures symbols that are
> them selves quarterly. no use to even try and explain this to them.
>
> ok so where am i now ? esignal and mr. chuck thompson at the helm
> that's where. it werk's well with my ts2ki and recently i had 6
> accounts now down to 2. the fine line between heaven and hell consist
> of the following ingredients.
>
> *did i mention werk's well with ts2ki.
>
> *now has "limited" history while nice needs to look at quote.com for a
> benchmark for quantity and delivery speed.
>
> *severely limited number of symbols for price. this is one item which
> is devastating esignal as a viable feed in my opinion. say you
> subscribe to bunches of real time exchanges - well rain on your
> parade. try doing an option chain or two and your met with limitation
> violations out the wahzoo. it's just ridiculous that this limitation
> extends to just quotes let alone data delivered. it's really enough to
> make me lament over my discontinuing of quote.com which give me
> everything i was paying for.
>
> *a potentially good if not the only mid range data feed company left
> which seems to be torn between becoming a ts replacement or a ts data
> feed provider. i think much of this fence sitting comes from a lack of
> reality that we ts users are not going anywhere which entails writing
> even more convoluted code that we already have in yet another "trial
> and error" pseudo language. leads me to ask the question what ever
> happened to doing a singular job excellently?
>
> -----------
>
> so todays question is - what if any data feeds are there that are
> internet only "yes i give up on satellite forever" based and deliver
> what i pay for? meaning i get all my options, futures etc. that the
> exchange i subscribe to delivers to the data vendor i am paying?
>
> i wonder what the exchanges position is on doing business with data
> vendors which do not deliver to the full extent the data which is
> being purchased from the exchange. ok well scratch that i know the
> exchanges could care less than the data vendor probably.
>
> there must be a internet data vendor which delivers and is ts
> compatible, dtn iq need not apply like wise any other feed which
> hasn't thoroughly accomplished the symbol translation accurately
> unlike anything that uses dynastore type products. i am sick and
> tired or converting symbols from data feed vendors into ts. ideas?
>
>
> i need quotes and lots of them.
>
>
> --
> Thank You,
> Mark Brown
>
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