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To: EasyWay who wrote (16215)	2/20/1999 11:44:00 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44573

I use BMI with Ensign's Vista on a Gateway, and BMI with another program on a Macintosh. It drives off a cable modem and uptime is excellent. You need to be in an area where cable TV supports the feed. I also use PC Quote with their own software on another Gateway. Here, you don't need to have a cable modem but the uptime is better on the cable modem. Else, a major provider is usually better than a local. I drive it either off another cable modem, Earthlink, or a local depending on what's going on at the time. PC Quote uptime is not as good as BMI, usually due to the intermediary ISP. However data quality/speed is somewhat better. PC Quote is also marginally less expensive. Also, good news/bad news, PC Quote maintains the data base. Great if you don't want to lose data because of an outage of some type. Lousy if PC quote is out or if they miss correcting a bad tick somewhere. On BMI you can correct the tick, or at least view charts if BMI's feed was out. I think I prefer that PC Quote maintains the data but to each his/her own. Some people also like QCharts. I have no experience with QCharts. There is a thread devoted to it here on SI somewhere.

To: EasyWay who wrote (16215)	2/20/1999 7:35:00 PM
From: SE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44573

EasyWay, If I could help you with your questions I would. I use QCharts and it is OK....but it isn't at all what you are after. The systems writing ability is non-existent and the analysis is redimentary, at best. Great intra-day real time charts though..... Scoot VICE President Comptrolling and Fallications Division BIETS

To: EasyWay who wrote (16215)	2/21/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: Steve Huskey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 44573

I still use the old WOW. I use MRI charts as a source. It's only good for futures. And it's only $20 a month. They have option prices too. It's a nice site and CME uses their charts. They also have good support. They changed the format of the data readouts so WOW would except it when I asked them to. Now THAT's service! It doesnt work for all futures contracts. WOW wont recognize some of the currency formats. But it's good for most. It's at barchart.com You cant download directly. You go to any charts readout and right click "Daily Prices". It then lets you save daily prices as a text file that WOW can import. If you decide to use it and have any problems... let me know. Steve