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A while back there was a discussion about CPQ (Compaq Computer) intraday
data being corrupted on the BMI datafeed. At that time, the best guess was
a fish story out of Toronto. Omega's response appears below. If it's
accurate, the old fish story is replaced by this one...
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The problem with collecting data on CPQ is that Citicorp uses the same
symbol, CpQ, for their preferred, Q series stock symbol. This problem
presented itself when Citicorp took over the symbol C, which occurred in
early December, 1998. BMI uses the lower case p to identify preferred
stocks. The Omega Server is not case sensitive and as such does not
differentiate between the upper and lower case p. When data is transmitted
and collected for CpQ it is stored for CPQ.
Omega Research, Inc. will include a fix for this in the Year 2000 patch. The
fix will ensure that data for lower case letter symbols will not be stored
in upper case letter symbols.
TradeStation 2000 is case sensitive so this will not be an issue.
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