I'm beta testing. Its an interesting system, most of the advanced features are still "under construction". The live quote feed uses Active X controls and works smoothly despite crashing a few times. I find it loads better than Stockwatch's java system (I haven't used stockwatch for a year, it may be better now) The security system is screwy. The live quote screen doesn't show bid size or ask size, except on the market depth section for VSE listed companies. This sucks, but I will most likely change when depths become available from the other exchanges. The current set-up forces you to leave the tracking area and go to the quote screen to see bid/ask sizes on the TSE and ASE companies, which is slow due to their apparent bandwidth constraints. This should not be necessary, and with the way the security settings are sometimes you have to log on again when you move from the "tracker" to other areas.
Stox has good ping times (avg. about 125 ms this morning), but bandwidth seems to be a problem on their side. Anyone know their connection size?
Have at least a 19" monitor or don't come to play... the live tracker screen is big, the intraday charting makes me want to open a daytrader account (wait till the add the NASDAQ feed!). I'm testing it on a PII 400 Win 95, 128mb, 56k modem, IE 4.0. I was going to try in with Win 98 / IE 5.0 and with a 10 meg internet connection, but if the bandwidth constraints are on their side, it won't matter if I connect with a full on OC3. |
