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To: TraderAlan who wrote (7083)	4/27/1999 6:27:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 12617

>>You get tired of broker and data hopping after awhile.<< Been there.

To: TraderAlan who wrote (7083)	4/27/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: TFF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12617

Q Charts puts RT3 to shame. It's impressive.The first time I have actually not had to worry about quote feed problems. Weeks go by and you realize you haven't had any interuptions.

To: TraderAlan who wrote (7083)	4/27/1999 7:28:00 PM
From: Dan Clark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12617

TA, QCharts doesn't differentiate time-periods much. I.e., you just specify whether you want bars as ticks, minute bars, daily bars, monthly bars and it just downloads the data. (Actually, you can specify that you want 3 minute bars. It's not listed in the drop-down, but you just enter the value.) Then after the first data is down-loaded, you just scroll to the left to get earlier time periods. As you scroll, it just downloads more data. Pretty quick too. Also, Quote.com cleans up the data. If you have a bad tick, they clean up the tick within about a minute. The portion of a price that results from bad ticks or suspected bad ticks is displayed in yellow and does NOT affect the y-axis range. For instance, you are looking at a chart where the price varies from 100 to 105, with a current price of 105. Then you get a bad tick where the price is say, "2,000". Your y-axis stays at 100 to 105. It does NOT change from 100 to 2,000. Any visible portion of a bar resulting from the bad tick turns to yellow. The bad tick scenario happened to me with DTNIQ. When I called, they said that they would fix the data if a customer called them!!! My response was, "That's Bll S*T"! I dropped them. Regards, Dan.

To: TraderAlan who wrote (7083)	4/30/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: steve goldman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12617

Help wanted I am looking for some stats regarding # of firm sin NASD, NYSE, AMEX, etc. , size of firms, average brokers per firm. specifically, I need to know the percentages in each bracket, bracket being number of brokers % of firms with less than 3 brokers, % of firms with with 5 to 10brokers % with 10 to 20 % with 20 or more THe specific brackets are important, yet the critical component is how many within whichever bracket is available. If anyone has seen this info and can provide any help, I owe you big. Regards, Steve@yamner.com

To: TraderAlan who wrote (7083)	5/2/1999 9:55:00 PM
From: TFF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12617

This is kind of an interesting post on Data feeds(PCQuote/QCharts/S&PComstock): The Quote.com QFeed internet data service gets its data from the S&P Comstock feed. We collect every tick coming across that feed, clean it up with automatic data correction filters and store the historical data which is available instantly on demand. Other vendors try to claim that QFeed is inherently slower than their feeds because we are an "indirect" service. However, in speed tests, it amazes me that we are consistently seconds ahead of some of these "direct" feeds, and we don't drop ticks when markets get busy. Even other applications reading the S&P Feed directly can lag QFeed. This is due to the fact that a QFeed application doesn't have to sip from the feed firehose to find the information it is looking for - the Continuum Servers do that and the application only has to deal with the information it is interested in. So, yes, we get our data updates from S&P Comstock. It's what we do with it and how fast we handle it that sets QFeed apart and makes it a value-added service. Cheers, -- Gibbons Burke