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Non-Tech : Datek Brokerage $9.95 a trade -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Morpher who wrote (6443)	1/19/1998 3:34:00 AM
From: Henk Kruisbrink	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16892

RE: Has anyone out there written a Windows front-end for Datek yet? Yes there is one, I use it. It's Personal Stock Manager, you can download it from: personaltools.com. The latest version v2.5b4 (yes it is beta) is now also getting the quotes from DATEK (and many other quote servers). It is a shareware program, and it has a real good smooth scrolling ticker. Henk

To: Morpher who wrote (6443)	1/19/1998 11:37:00 AM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16892

There's Wall Street Explorer. (There's a thread here for it - do a search.) And the other one that somebody else mentioned. I don't think that either one provides a trading interface, though. The "dynamic quotes" part of this has to be approached carefully, so as not to bog-down the Datek server. The way Datek's quotes work is not designed for streaming quotes and is pretty inefficient (just because HTTP is inefficient). Wall Street Explorer puts a limit on update speed, and I wouldn't suggest not doing so. I do think that trading is where you could get the most advantage from third-party software. I'd write it, but I don't have the time. You're right, WinInet (and the new MFC classes in Visual C++ 5.0 that wrap around it) makes this a snap. I still don't have the time. :) However, since Datek installed the express server, there is much less of a need for this as there had been.