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I think your comments pretty well summarize the situation with
quote.com. One does have to keep in mind that what is a good data feed
for one trader may not be a good data feed for another. A futures trader
who watches perhaps 30-50 symbols and actively trades a few of those on
any one day is not putting the same load on the system that a trader who
is monitoring and scanning hundreds or thousands of stocks or options
for trading opportunities. Also, there is a huge variation in quality of
Internet connections between users and even at different times of the
day. While QFeed provides the trader with real-time statistics regarding
the quality of the connection, it is up to the trader to perform the
analysis (using a ping plotter) when the connection is sub-standard.
Earl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Watkins" <mwatkins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 8:26 AM
Subject: [RT] Re: Quote.com Data
>
> Greetings List,
>
> I'm a current user of PCQuote and Quote.com products.
>
> My opinion on the Quote.com situation -- I believe they are suffering
under
> the load of their success. However the signs are evident that they are
> working to address their issues, and their new corporate structure
ought to
> offer them increased resources through which to carry out their plans.
>
> There are a few things I see that support a positive future outcome:
> - they have chosen wisely to outsource their server hosting (Exodus
EXDS...)
> thus offering them far superior systems management and access to the
> internet than what they likely could justify if building their own. An
> outsourcing relationship makes it easier for them to bring new
distributed
> sites on line as well, as Exodus adds new datacenter locations
themselves
> around the world.
>
> - existing performance of quote servers I have found to be very good
and
> they they have announced intentions to further improve their server
farms.
> Problems with performance appear to largely be confined to the users
of
> their charting applications. I trade through the day chatting with an
> on-line group of local and remote friends. When we are all noting that
> Charting has gone down or intermittend on Quote.com (QCharts users
mostly),
> the people in our group that use Dynastore with QFeed most often
report NO
> problems. The quote server component of their solution is apparently
not
> always affected by issues that trouble the QCharts users. We've seen
this
> behavior many dozens of times over the past 5 months so we can assume
> there's a reason for this and its not a fluke
>
> Further on the performance issue, I've been comparing what I use now -
> PCQuote (am planning a switch soon) to drive TradeStation 2000i to the
> qcharts/feed users. I also have QCharts as a backup charting facility
in
> case of failure with Tradestation/PCQuote. I experience both network
drop
> outs from PCQuote (appears to be a router near one of their
facilities) and
> spotty performance. I've traced the network path back to them and also
> perform regular ping tests to check out the relative speed of the
> connection. I'm finding that the PCQuote servers to my location
typically
> offer 85 to 135ms response time. Network drop outs occur when response
time
> is creeping up to 135-250ms.
>
> Comparing that to Quote.com's servers, during normal operation I
> *consistantly* receive ping responses back in 30ms if I am connected
to a
> West Coast server and 70ms if connected to East coast.
>
> I can tell you that 30ms for internet delivery is excellent. That
speed is
> faster than some of the early hard wired Local Area Network
performance!
> Now, its true that I use a cable modem attached connection to the
internet,
> however the real story is that they have engineered their back end
servers
> and connection to the internet for very high performance.
>
> What this tells me is that Quote.com has made some significant
investments
> in performance and that they "Get" the internet. So I for one am
willing to
> continue to support them at this time, I believe we should see
improvements
> come fairly quickly over the next few months. And frankly, the service
is
> pretty darn good now as it is, at least for this user.
>
> Sorry for the aricle. I do have a general question for TradeStation
2000i
> users that are using the Dynastore/Qfeed combination - are any of you
> experiencing any issues that you can relate to the choice of feed?
Some of
> my friends have some performance issues in charting (chart updates are
slow
> as ticks come in) but I'm unable to determine if these issues are
merely
> TradeStation related (likely) or data feed. I tried a test on one
persons
> machine - manually entered a tick after hours - and could reproduce
the
> issue in TS. That suggests strongly to me that the issue was not
> Dynastore/Qfeed related. Curious to know other people's experience.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boturger@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:boturger@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 10:06 PM
> To: vibri@xxxxxxxxx; realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RT] Re: Quote.com Data
>
>
> Patrick wrote:
> Ever since Lycos purchased Quote.com and changed the web site the data
feed
> has gone down hill.
>
> So, what is the future of Quote.com under corporate ownership?
> Are we looking at the onset of a BMI-like syndrome (ie, continuing
> deterioration of data feed coupled w/ circle-jerk customer support)?
> Did Lycos make this purchase in the frenzy of internet mania, w/o a
> realistic plan for how to make it work? Are they still laboring w/
y2k
> issues?
> Please, any feedback would be appreciated.
> Bo.
>
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