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Strategies & Market Trends : DAYTRADING Fundamentals -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: keith massey who wrote (10306)	9/27/2000 2:25:18 AM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 18137

My suggestion: don't try to day-trade with it! "Does anyone have any suggestions for "streaming" quote services for handheld wireless devices? " If you're trading, this is way too much of a toy to trade with. If you're investing, there's something wrong if you need to have quotes by your side at all times. IMO, of course. As to a serious answer to your question, I think you've half-answered it yourself: find the service provider first. THEN worry about the hardware. Buy whatever is compatable. I wouldn't go in saying "I want a Compaq such-and-such". Find the service provider that does what you want, then go with whatever hardware it works with. And, if you REALLY feel you have to trade from remote locations - get a real notebook computer, with the biggest, baddest LCD you can get, and wait a couple of years for G3 rollout.

To: keith massey who wrote (10306)	9/29/2000 1:38:40 AM
From: -	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18137

Keith, Suggest you take a look at RIM (Blackberry) devices for streaming quotes on wireless handhelds... I had one a year ago but coverage was still spotty in the Bay Area. Also, Palm VII is great for quotes... and there is always Ricochet, which is going to 128Kbps soon (coverage in Bay Area, Seattle, Wash DC, NYC, parts of LA, major airports only). CDPD is a work in process, questionable whether it will ever hit the big-time (the carriers drive that, and it's subject to bypass by more state-of-the art technologies from alternative wireless data carriers like MCOM)... but CDPD is still the carrier's vision for packet over cellular technology so it may survive due to inertia (clearly, 19.2kbps won't take it far though). The demand is certainly there now for something that can deliver broadband wireless MAN data service reliably, at an attractive price point... plenty of VC money flowing there so stay tuned. Good trading, -Steve