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Mark,
I was so excited to see your post. I figured you were going to answer
my question. Which feed to switch to from DTN Satellite. I couldn't
find the answer????????
My needs are not as great as yours so I still favor eSignal. You go
with them Mark and then I will listen for your expert opinion after a
couple of weeks. Cause I know you will bench test them at ninety five
hundred RPM all day long. Especially with that connection you have
that will suck the tick breath out of the eSignal.
Best regards,
Jimmy Snowden
mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx
Monday, August 11, 2003, 4:54:59 PM, you wrote:
MB> Hello ,
MB> ok i have dumped dtn satellite as of just after the first of the year
MB> because of continual monday morning problems, where they took it upon
MB> themselves to change files on my system with no apparent regard to
MB> the consequences to ts2ki.
MB> i have just dumped quote.com because of continual server farm hopping
MB> and their fictitious security claiming non existent multiple log
MB> in attempts. not to mention their rubber band data delivery which
MB> conveniently sends real time data delayed.
MB> i lament over the old bmi service though it was slow it was dependable
MB> and multi seat friendly. as well as the dbc blackbox predecessor via
MB> fm or sat. oh well those days will never return i guess - had to be
MB> the all time dependable service.
MB> sp comstock with it's convoluted symbols and insane expense will also
MB> gather dust in the corner of my minds real time data debacles as i
MB> recall having to align an impossible finicky now defunct equatorial sat
MB> dish. oh those were the days and trying to multi seat that one was a
MB> feat that only products from blackbox could tackle.
MB> cqg - expensive, arrogant bull headed and convoluted symbology and
MB> lying when they say you can program your own studies. the most
MB> dependable accurate and take total control of your computer everything
MB> else be dammed data feed in existence. now for the bad cons.
MB> pc quote - been 1990's since i used this one now some new name i
MB> guess. in the old days i had a os2 dedicated server just to receive the
MB> data which came in in quantities large enough to drown you. constant
MB> software upgrades and weird things happening. but wins award for most
MB> data transmitted fastest.
MB> futuresource - other that esignal it's the only pay for every exchange
MB> and we give you limited symbols feed i know of. the nerve of fs to
MB> take my money and deliver me limited symbols. it's astonishing and
MB> the clunky software reminded me of 80's dos ware. there net feed isn't
MB> used by them i guess otherwise they would know that they are missing
MB> option quotes which occur every month on some futures symbols that are
MB> them selves quarterly. no use to even try and explain this to them.
MB> ok so where am i now ? esignal and mr. chuck thompson at the helm
MB> that's where. it werk's well with my ts2ki and recently i had 6
MB> accounts now down to 2. the fine line between heaven and hell consist
MB> of the following ingredients.
MB> *did i mention werk's well with ts2ki.
MB> *now has "limited" history while nice needs to look at quote.com for a
MB> benchmark for quantity and delivery speed.
MB> *severely limited number of symbols for price. this is one item which
MB> is devastating esignal as a viable feed in my opinion. say you
MB> subscribe to bunches of real time exchanges - well rain on your
MB> parade. try doing an option chain or two and your met with limitation
MB> violations out the wahzoo. it's just ridiculous that this limitation
MB> extends to just quotes let alone data delivered. it's really enough to
MB> make me lament over my discontinuing of quote.com which give me
MB> everything i was paying for.
MB> *a potentially good if not the only mid range data feed company left
MB> which seems to be torn between becoming a ts replacement or a ts data
MB> feed provider. i think much of this fence sitting comes from a lack of
MB> reality that we ts users are not going anywhere which entails writing
MB> even more convoluted code that we already have in yet another "trial
MB> and error" pseudo language. leads me to ask the question what ever
MB> happened to doing a singular job excellently?
MB> -----------
MB> so todays question is - what if any data feeds are there that are
MB> internet only "yes i give up on satellite forever" based and deliver
MB> what i pay for? meaning i get all my options, futures etc. that the
MB> exchange i subscribe to delivers to the data vendor i am paying?
MB> i wonder what the exchanges position is on doing business with data
MB> vendors which do not deliver to the full extent the data which is
MB> being purchased from the exchange. ok well scratch that i know the
MB> exchanges could care less than the data vendor probably.
MB> there must be a internet data vendor which delivers and is ts
MB> compatible, dtn iq need not apply like wise any other feed which
MB> hasn't thoroughly accomplished the symbol translation accurately
MB> unlike anything that uses dynastore type products. i am sick and
MB> tired or converting symbols from data feed vendors into ts. ideas?
MB> i need quotes and lots of them.
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