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Strategies & Market Trends : Trading the SPOOs with Patrick Slevin! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (6440)	10/6/2000 12:18:27 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7434

Hi Patrick .. I'm responding to a post (from what I remember of it) from a few days back. Quote .. As I understand it .. Quote has a bottleneck. That is limited bandwidth from their data supplier. When the market starts to run fast they have to choose which items are more important to them, and put the others on the back burner. Items which would be of higher importance would be the stuff that can be gotten realtime from them for free. The reason for this is because of the ad revenue .. two fresh ads every sixty seconds .. say $0.10 per ad flash. That would be $78.00 per market day for each open live charts screen. .. say 20 market days per month = $1560.00 per month. I keep four windows open .. 24 hours .. 242460$0.10*25(days per month)= $28,800.00 per month At this rate they should provide all quotes and real time charts for free. I have no idea why they have not fixed their bottle neck. In the mean time .. items that they consider important: mini contracts for: Euro Yen S&P NDX other items: prem.x tick trin compx $INDU possibly the NYA They even have a hard time providing timely quotes for the SPX and OEX. I believe that, because of the money involved in ad revenue, live charts (their free service) has a much larger priority than does their paying customers service.