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Dear Kent, NHBob, & Group,
NHBob's experience hasn't been my own, at least recently. Since the end of last
year, when I was forced to abandon TS 3.5 and by desire quit BMI, I have been
using QFeed (from Quote.com) to feed DynaStore to feed TS4 for my exceedingly
short-term trading of the stock index futures. My experience with QFeed now is
that the only gaps that I am aware of occur possibly every week or two and are
usually no more than a minute or two; there are bursts routinely, although my
experience is that the interval between bursts is usually less than several
seconds; there are routine server outages, although they also have many servers,
and at least the DynaStore program that I am using immediately switches to
another server if the one it is using goes out, resulting in a gap of perhaps
10-15 seconds, which occurs in my awareness perhaps every few days to a week; my
last log-on failure was last Sunday morning, when I was trying to download
backdata, which was the only log-on failure that I can recently recall.
Yes, QFeed has had its problems. In my experience, its problems are occurring
less frequently, and all in all I am pleased with its service. No, I don't want
to go back to DBC. Perhaps others on this list have found another realtime data
service that they prefer for futures daytrading, preferably one compatible with
TS4. If so, I would invite their suggestions, comments, and comparisons.
Similarly, perhaps others on this list have more information about any current
problems with QFeed's data stream, and I invite their comments as well.
Sincerely,
Richard
Kent Rollins wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. Are you only talking about intraday realtime, or do the
> gaps exist if you download tick data at the end of the day also?
>
> Kent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NHBob <rehhrd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Kent Rollins <kentr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; OmegaList <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 2:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Quote.com data
>
> Kent, before you jump to quote.com to solve missing ticks, best wait a bit
> if you do options or indexes or futures. They have had severe gaps and
> bursts, server outages, log-on failures and reliability problems for the
> past 6 months, Its not better with version 4.0 just released. Check the
> egroups postings before you commit.
> NHBob
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kent Rollins
> To: OmegaList
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 12:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Trader Ware - Mark Brown
>
> TW doesn't use DDE. It uses
> <snip>
> TW also works with Quote.com which I don't have but am considering for use
> in conjunction with a Quote.com downloader (http://www.mechtrading.com/)
> just so I can keep my tick data up to date. With the limited amount of
> ticks coming across Signal Cable into my TS4 and the fact that it will
> probably be phased out before long, I've got to set myself up for a longer
> term solution. UMDS 2.0 is worse than TS2k for data import/export because
> it doesn't even have data import! Kent Gryzich of UMDS fame says that this
> has been a major complaint that he's received so UMDS 3.0 will allegedly
> have import/export.
>
> Kent
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