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Strategies & Market Trends : E-mini and S&P Futures Trading Discussion in Realtime -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: keith massey who wrote (115)	7/16/1999 7:05:00 PM
From: Jimsy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119

Keith - if you want to do intraday scalp trading, you need the best data feed, no delay, no interuptions, all the data, no bad data. BMI satelite is the only one that I can be sure of for now, but the other feeds may improve with time, but they may not as they pile more and more stuff onto the Internet. For the FM feed and the cable feed, its is my understanding by comparing with other friends in Toronto that they do not get all of the data. I have not yet done a good comparison with any of the Internet feeds, will be able to do so in September when I get back to Toronto. The disadvantage of BMI now is they droped the live Canadian quotes, but you still get end of day data, not sure how good it is though. Since the Internet feeds tend to be cheaper and you have TS2000, what I suggest is that you try them out, either DBC, or DTN. We can stay in touch to check if you are getting all of the data, and no delay. Then if they don't work out and we can figure out the deficiencies and whether they intend to correct them, and if not then you can switch to BMI. Its a bit of a technical challenge to set up the satelate dish, but not beyond doing. Aligning the dish is the most difficult task. i have always been with BMI since early 1994. For the S&Ps and stocks I store all the data on my hard drive. For stocks this was only about a year and a half since keeping more than that for the juniors was useless anyway. For the S&Ps, I have about a year and a half of data for the cash index, and most of the indices that I follow. Generally, I find that is enough. Since the futures contract changes every 3 months, nit isn't continuous anyway since there is a time adjusted value to it over its life. The mini just started getting lots of volume about last September, so data before that owuld likely be useless to verify systems. The big contract of course has data from longer back but sometimes recently it rades very thin, probably due to the poularity of the mini. With the Internet stocks, the runup of NASDAQ, all of the good earnings, world financial happenings, I find it is more important to stay on top of all that stuff rather than a lot of historical data. Hope this helps, the fire in downtown Toronto wiped out Sympatico today for a while, so I couldn't do any online trading. Fortunately, there was a good wind, and so I windsurfed all afternoon.