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To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (3483)	8/27/1999 9:17:00 AM
From: jebj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17977

>The L2 is the correct data, leaving T&S and trade charts useless until they come into sync. - Dan Tks for the reply, Dan - Ref the problems at open, normally that seems to be a lag in all data - not just bits and pices here and there as was over the last few days. Usually in a delay the data is just slow if one checks it against another source but what we had was 3 totally different quotes in the T&S, qoute page and L2. And in this case, the T&S was tracking with Cyber data but the L2 was as much as a full point behind. Good trading. jb PS - Still have not received ANY replies for Qcharts ref my questions!

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (3483)	8/30/1999 7:51:00 PM
From: Gibbons Burke	Respond to of 17977

Yes - Nasdaq can get backed up on busy days around the open. They have two feeds coming out of the exchange - one for quotes and one for trade reports. When things get backed up, quotes (bids, asks) go out with first priority - they are really what shows where the market is now. Trade reports are often delayed, and when they come across are often far outside the current bid-ask spread. Unfortunately, charts are built from trades not quotes. But it's the quotes that you really want to be watching during the busy times. -- Gibbons