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Realtraders,
A friend of mine is having trouble yesterday and today with incomplete data
on the TICK symbol, and data that is not updating correctly. (NYSE TICK
symbol) He uses BMI cable feed and lives in Kansas. He is an experienced
trader, however, not a member of the list.
I am using DTN satellite feed and not having this trouble. I have been
told that Bridge supplies the raw data to both DTN and BMI.
Are any BMI traders out there experiencing similar problems? Satellite,
cable, region?
Here is the response Bob received from BMI:
>Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 10:19 AM
>Subject: RE: TICK
>
>
>>the problem lies with our existing bandwidth.
>>38,400 baud is too low to accommodate the sheer volume of data
>>being generated by the exchanges. our supplier of indices as well as our
>>systems
>>are being overwhelmed by the current market activity.
>>
>>the machines calculating the indices are slowing down the calculations in
>>order not to crash.
>>
>>unfortunately there is not a fix for it at this time the indices will be
>>back
>>to normal when the markets calm down.
>>
>>We are currently working on ways to insure that this will not happen in the
>>future. It will require massive upgrades to many systems both upstream (on
>>the datafeed) and downstream (satellite uplinks and cable companies)
>>
>>WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY PROBLEMS THAT THIS HAS CAUSED.
>>
>>
>>Merlin Triplett
>>BMI Technical Support Representative
>>c/o Data Broadcasting Corporation
>>http://www.bmiquotes.com
>>1-800-436-4036
>>
I have assumed this query to the list is appropriate as other BMI customers
may want to know about this.
Dan Tillemans
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