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Strategies & Market Trends : Metastock 6.0 for Window -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Russ who wrote (1586)	2/16/1998 4:57:00 PM
From: Clark Wang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

I too have this problem today. Their service has deteriorated substantially recently. I have 10k stocks on my PC. I used to update 5000 stocks in one download. I only need two downloads everyday. However, I could not do it any more. I got 'time out' messages. I was told by their technical support that the loading on their computer was heavier than usual since Jan. I have to divide the job into smaller groups, i.e. download about 1500-2000 stocks each time. This is really annoying. I simply don't have the time sitting before my PC waiting the download, update and select next group. That's why I also subscribe QP. QP does handle change of symbol, new listing, etc. I can then generate a new list every month and maintain my database. However, QP only has two-year data, and QP's data on indexes are not clean. Closing numbers are OK, but high, low, and open need improvement. Conclusion, nothing is perfect.