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

To: keith massey who wrote (2450)	11/22/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: Paul Beattie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

Hi Keith, I am in the same situation as you, and use Dataline for EOD Cdn data (in ASCII format). Some things to consider: - Customer Service (Can you get a response when problems occur?) - Quality of data - Availability (timeliness, what time each day?, emailed to you?) - Your need to filter out 0 volume days, if the data provider doesn't. - A way to automate processing of ASCII data. Manually stepping through the steps does work, but it gets tedious very quickly. - A database for all stocks (vs. MSWIN's internal data format for each stock). - Monthly cost for data on all stocks. I suggest you run through your "daily cycle" for a while, and see if you like MSWIN's Downloader, MSWIN files, and loading ASCII data. I'm not plugging Dataline as a provider. I know there are others, and there are tradeoffs. I'd consider changing vendors when I see a better way to meet my needs. I've cobbled together (programmed) a "system" that lets me use ASCII, along with StockWiz(DOS) as a database. I export to MSWIN for analysis. My goal was to have the data for TA and scanning. I wish it were QuotesPlus, but until I find better, it gives me very basic functionality, some scanning, with limited requirements for manual fiddling - I have to identify splits, and correct bad data. In total, I track about 4000 Cdn stocks (many of which are either pennies or not liquid). Market changes do occur, and I can see them quickly. Regards, Paul