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Pinnacle sells extremely clean futures, index, and COT historical data and
updates at www.pinnacledata.com. The Windows programs are new, replacing DOS
programs, and those of us who are Pinnacle customers are awaiting CD's with
the new programs.
Earl
----- Original Message -----
From: cb <cpbow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ronald McEwan <rmac@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: <scheier@xxxxxxxxx>; <Realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: RT_Re: Gen:Commitment of Traders Report
> Ronald McEwan wrote:
> >
> > Mark wrote:
> >
> > the problem I've always faced with these reports is how to quickly
> > bring this info into an indicator. Have you actually created a macro
> > or
> > something to grab this data from the CFTC's website and process it
> > quickly into a file to be read by your chart program? Getting it
there
> >
> > seems to be the hassle. And I find that if you can't make the study
of
> > the
> > report a consistant, habitual practice, its value as a tool dimishes.
> >
> > Mark, sorry I dont have a quick easy way of getting this data from the
> > ascii file. I did it manually and put it into excel (and it was a
> > hassle). I was always interested in this study and wanted to explore it
> > for myself . The two week delay in getting updates is a problem as the
> > recent decline in the markets has shown.
> >
> > Ron
>
> I had a recollection that Pinnacle had some COT emphasis. It turns out
> that they have a cot historical database as well as a program that says
> is "A window driven data manager that allows you to select fields of
> data from any one of the various databases offered by Pinnacle Data Corp
> or from your own ASCII files and combine into one large ASCII output
> file. What isn't mentioned in this listing is whether they have current
> downloadable commodity/cot data.
>
> I seem to recall that one of the data vendors was linked with Larry
> Williams longer term courses which include looking at COT data. It
> might have been Genesis?
>
> Finally here is a website that shows an indicator version of COT. Its a
> subscr. site but only $5/mo. http://www.orc.ca/~blees/futures.htm
>
> [no rel. with any of the above except as a customer of Pinnacle once for
> their continuous contract data. Nor have i used cot data in my
> analysis.]
>
> Conrad Bowers
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