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Strategies & Market Trends : Systems, Strategies and Resources for Trading Futures
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To: EasyWay who wrote (16215)2/20/1999 11:44:00 AM
From: Patrick Slevin  Read Replies (1) of 44573
 
I use BMI with Ensign's Vista on a Gateway, and BMI with another program on a Macintosh. It drives off a cable modem and uptime is excellent. You need to be in an area where cable TV supports the feed.

I also use PC Quote with their own software on another Gateway. Here, you don't need to have a cable modem but the uptime is better on the cable modem. Else, a major provider is usually better than a local. I drive it either off another cable modem, Earthlink, or a local depending on what's going on at the time.

PC Quote uptime is not as good as BMI, usually due to the intermediary ISP. However data quality/speed is somewhat better. PC Quote is also marginally less expensive.

Also, good news/bad news, PC Quote maintains the data base. Great if you don't want to lose data because of an outage of some type. Lousy if PC quote is out or if they miss correcting a bad tick somewhere. On BMI you can correct the tick, or at least view charts if BMI's feed was out. I think I prefer that PC Quote maintains the data but to each his/her own.

Some people also like QCharts. I have no experience with QCharts. There is a thread devoted to it here on SI somewhere.
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