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To: Spike who wrote (1077)	4/23/1998 3:32:00 PM
From: Ed Herlihy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2358

Spike: It is interesting that you signed up for Interquote THIS morning and and decided it works GREAT. You have been on for a few hours? Are you getting the SAME charts and the same speed with the same indicators that we at RTtrader have been getting for months? Do you tell everyone how much MORE the Interquote service costs? And how much LESS you get in the way of charts and TA indicators? Hey, I will be on the list to criticize Naq as much as most other customers. And Paul knows I have chimed in. But if there are folks out there that have to have "perfect quotes" and need "guaranteed" instant prices and wish to scalp to 1/4 and and 1/8 there, the LAST data service I would recommend is ANYTHING on the internet, and no, NAQ is not as good as the other services, many of which cost 5-10 as much per month. They know that and so does the competition. I trade less than most do here and desire to spend what I am spending here at NAQ for now. I think NAQ is very gun shy right now about major software changes and yes, they refused to recognize that the spike issue was a serious one. Or perhaps the programmers gave them a huge cost and budget to get this problem down to a manageable level. One of the worst spikes is the volume spike and there was a clear reason why it happens. If they cannot find a data service that doesn't require NAQ to compute "net" per trade volumes, using cumulative daily volumes (as provided... NAQ claims) then, obviously the data feeds that provide this "subtracted" net per trade volumes are most likely much costlier. The huge volume spikes are created by subtracting 0 from the previous trades CUMLATIVE daily volume. The data spike is the "0", which should be skipped over. Ed