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Re: CME gone crazy



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I believe you would find what you're looking for (at reasonable prices) at CQG.

Regards,

Paul

At 11:10 AM 9/20/02 -0400, phil wrote:
>They all must be taking there lead from the "new" breed of CEO's in our
>current headlines. Thank you Michael Douglas (Mr. Gecko) and the Hollywood
>writers who try to "sell" us all their trash beliefs. I think he said "Greed
>is good". Sounds like more than one generation bought into it. Tooooo DAMN
>bad I say.
>
>Phil
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Linders" <Robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 8:23 AM
>Subject: CME gone crazy
>
>
>> Hi List,
>> Since I don't mind to pay somewhat for my data I visited the CME website
>to
>> buy Russel 20000 e-mini.
>> It did not trade for very long so I decided to buy all of it (a little
>over
>> 1 year of data).
>> DARN $550 for just one e-mini for one year ??
>> And for $550 you still have to write a program to convert it to something
>> TS2000 will take (of course no service from the CME to deliver a
>conversion
>> program of any type).
>> They do email you updates for a small fee....... ($8 per symbol per day).
>>
>> I guess trading really is a game of fear and greed. Fear for the traders
>and
>> greed for the exchanges and brokers. That CME some time ago increased the
>> non professional exchange fee from $10 to $60 per month is just an other
>> example of their unlimited greed.
>>
>> Anyway sorry that hardly anybody reponded to my request for the historic
>CME
>> files so we could create some programs and put it all on the
>traders2traders
>> website (free for all to download).
>> Thanks
>> Robert
>>
>> ps. I have quote.com and ODS and could immediately download the data I
>> needed (it is just that the quote.com data is less reliable =has a few
>gaps
>> etc.=).
>> =================================
>> Robert Linders
>> Orlando
>> Robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> =================================
>>