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thx for the improvements involving interquote. Some indicators that still
are not working as they had been in the past is  Williams AD,
Accum/Distribrib., Arms Ease of Movement, and UDVR  as an indicators  for
$COMPX.    Williams AD does display for $SPX, while UDVR,  Arms  and Accum.
Distrib. does not.  The accum/distrib. line and arms ease of movement do not
display for $COMPX there are no volume bars displayed for $COMPX. The newest
of the price bars for $COMPX are displayed as dashes, not bars.

ANSWER:

InterQuote does not (nor does any other data vendor) provide volume for
$COMPX. Indicators whose calculations depend on volume will not compute if
volume is not present in the historical data.

As for $COMPX showing up as dashes, if you look at the tick data for $COMPX,
if only one tick comes in during a one minute period then the open will be
the same price as the close, high, and low, by definition in a one minute
chart. It does appear that InterQuote is sending $COMPX updates only once
per minute. I occassionally see two ticks in a minute interval and the bar
(or candle) has some body to it in those cases.

The creator of the Datekexpress interface has been updated to
accomodate the server changes (Yes!), and here's the link:

http://stockclub.com/super_express/

(The stockclub website, where its hosted, seems to be somewhat like a
ghosttown now, so this modification is a surprise, but I'm guessing
its been modified so that they can still take advantage of the ad
banners they run on it...Works for me!)

John

--- In linnsoft@egroups.com, traeyreed@y... wrote:
> Those of you who use Datek regurlary know that the express webpage
> layout is no longer available. On top of that, those of you who
were
> using the Super-Express third party interface (that's similar to
> PowerEtrade interface, except that this Datek page was the original
> idea!) no longer works as well.
>
> As a work-around, which I'm finding (with a macro program to assign
> convenient keystoke commands) almost as convenient, is here:
>
> http://home.pacbell.net/tai_jin/datek/express.htm
>
> The macro program that I use, and would recommend (albeit it costs
> about $59) is Automate (pc platform) from www.unisYn.com. The is an
> extensive macro program though and am sure that there are some
others
> that can do mouse movement and keystroke commands for much cheaper
> (if not free).
>
> A good site for tracking Datek interfaces (and other trading
related
> resources) is www.daytradingstocks.com, under the "trading
software"
> link.
>
> John

Bill,

I'm running the b2 version.  I don't use the InterQuote data feed, so
I don't feel an urgency to upgrade once again.  What are these
'several additional enhancements that may be of interest' in the b4
version?  Can you give us a hint what these might be so we can
motivate ourselves to upgrade (or not)?

Toby

>We are releasing Investor/RT 4.6 b4 today in order to provide
>updated data feed software for InterQuote users. Recent unexpected
>changes in the format of the InterQuote data feed transmission has
>necessitated revisions to Investor/RT. For example, InterQuote
>recently began transmitting futures contract settlement prices
>continuously during trading hours and I/RT was programmed to expect
>this information only after the close. Thus the transmitted
>settlement price (for the previous day) was incorrectly applied to
>the "Last" price for certain futures contracts. This results in
>"flat line" charts at the transmitted settlement price. In addition,
>a change in  transmission format for selected stocks and indices has
>resulted in periodic misquotes thus adversely affecting I/RT charts.
>The problems have been corrected in 4.6 b4. While this is still
>considered a beta release, this update is the only solution for
>InterQuote users who have been experiencing the problems described
>above.
>
>All beta 4.6 users are also encouraged to update. The new release
>contains several additional enhancements that may be of interest.
>
>To download the 4.6 b4 update, go to
><http://www.linnsoft.com/dl>www.linnsoft.com/dl.
>
><http://click.egroups.com/1/4324/9/_/_/_/964023918/>

Those of you who use Datek regurlary know that the express webpage
layout is no longer available. On top of that, those of you who were
using the Super-Express third party interface (that's similar to
PowerEtrade interface, except that this Datek page was the original
idea!) no longer works as well.

As a work-around, which I'm finding (with a macro program to assign
convenient keystoke commands) almost as convenient, is here:

http://home.pacbell.net/tai_jin/datek/express.htm

The macro program that I use, and would recommend (albeit it costs
about $59) is Automate (pc platform) from www.unisYn.com. The is an
extensive macro program though and am sure that there are some others
that can do mouse movement and keystroke commands for much cheaper
(if not free).

A good site for tracking Datek interfaces (and other trading related
resources) is www.daytradingstocks.com, under the "trading software"
link.

John

[url=http://www.yahoo.com]Just testing[/url]

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I subscribe to the CBOE daily update, which includes the put/call ratio for
the current day (which one of you had refered me to -thanks!), and for the
first time since I've been checking it daily, its been like .39-.42 a few
days in a row, extremely low and down from the higher 40's to low 50's in
mild conditions. For all you who try to guage the major indeces, isn't this
number a very bearish indication? I really can't say that I focus much on
the index levels and any immediate implications of this number while trading
(if there are any...), but it makes me wonder if you guys are seeing
something in your analysis that is more conspicuous than normal, bearish or
bullish.

I remember looking at these numbers a few years ago on a chart and it took
about a month before things turned downward. I think that was a week or so
in 7/98 or 8/98 when p/c ratios got very low, and things went sour in 9/98
(if I have the right year!). I haven't been studying p/c ratios, but its
curious numbers like this that is the reason why I take a quick glance at
the number each day.

John

****************************************************************

High John,

I trade the indeces, thanks for your observation.  I day trade the S&P Emini
(2 to 30 minutes per round turn), but I have come up with my own Daily,
"Crash Indicator", which has caught every decline in the S&P of 9% or more
since 1980.  I trade OEX options to try and catch these.

What I look at has nothing to do with put call ratios (although this weekend
my wife will be cursing you for giving me another subject to research), but
what I've come up with gives me a 1 to 1.5 month lead time before the
correction, but I need to see confirmation from a second indicator I look
at.
  I've gotten the first part as of a week ago, and I'm waiting for the
confirmation part, which seems to be setting up perfectly for about a month
from now.  I also have a secondary indicator which can negate all of this.
It is also seetting up to negate this potential decline.

Have to watch this day by day to see the likely scenario.  But it looks to
me
like we are at least a month away from a major decline (9% or greater).  But
never underestimate the power of the FED.

I'll try and update the sparklist with my forecast, but I've got a very sick
wife (of course I have no health insurance) and 5 kids who like to sit with
me during the and watch me play the GAME.

Again thanks for the observation, I'll try and research this weekend and
keep
you up to breast on my foorecast.

Jeffrey DiTieri at Dditieri@...

****************************************************************

Jeffrey,

Your signals sound very savvy. I love it!

> What I look at has nothing to do with put call ratios (although this
weekend
> my wife will be cursing you for giving me another subject to research)

A daytraders rule of thumb...Never take for granted the patience of a wife
of a daytrader.! (It sure can be hard to get off the computer, can't it.)

> what I've come up with gives me a 1 to 1.5 month lead time before the
> correction, but I need to see confirmation from a second indicator I look
at.
>  I've gotten the first part as of a week ago, and I'm waiting for the
> confirmation part, which seems to be setting up perfectly for about a
month
> from now.  I also have a secondary indicator which can negate all of this.
> It is also seetting up to negate this potential decline.
> Have to watch this day by day to see the likely scenario.  But it looks to
me
> like we are at least a month away from a major decline (9% or greater).
But
> never underestimate the power of the FED.

Well, knowing that you've got some indicators that might be kicking in, I'll
be curious to see what happens. Bring it on! (off course...in a way that all
of us traders can profit from.) I wouldn't mind seeing a big move because of
the added volume and volatility, which for the most part, has left a lot to
be desired for me since April.

> I'll try and update the sparklist with my forecast, but I've got a very
sick
> wife (of course I have no health insurance) and 5 kids who like to sit
with
> me during the and watch me play the GAME.

I must say Jeffrey regarding insurance, since mine finally just became
effective on Saturday, it was one of the biggest hassles I ever went through
trying to obtain (and that's without kids). That's very cute that they like
to hang with you during the day. Kids always love checking out what daddy's
working on. I've thought of that myself, and look forward to it (if I'm
still trading then...)

> Again thanks for the observation, I'll try and research this weekend and
keep
> you up to breast on my foorecast.

Sounds good!

John

> on 7/16/00 10:33 AM, Paul Irvine at p.irvine@... wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Now that Datek allows trading in decimals, when will IR/T accomodate this
> feature?
> Paul
>
>
Investor/RT from the beginning has had the capability to display prices in
various fractional formats or in decimals according to user preference. Each
instrument has it's own display format which may be adjusted in Setup:
Instruments.

To assign two decimal format to every stock issue, open the ".Stocks" quote
page and click the "Number Format" button with no particular row selected.
Then pick 99.99 format from the displayed list and all instruments will be
udpated.

Hi Paul and all:

I belive Investor/RT had handeled decmils from beginning. Under the
SETUP menu, SETUP INSTRUMENTS, there is a Display Format popup list.
it contains decmil settings like, 99.9, 99.99, 99.999, etc... so you
can change any instrument. Not sure if there is a method to change
all instruments in database though, I looked a bit and I looked at
scan tokens but could not see method to change all in database, but
there might be a way, that Dr. Linn could advise us on.

Mike_____

>Hi all,
>Now that Datek allows trading in decimals, when will IR/T accomodate this
>feature?
>Paul

Hi all,
Now that Datek allows trading in decimals, when will IR/T accomodate this
feature?
Paul

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I agree with the previous comments wholeheartedly. I am also having a
great experience with the upgrade to W2k.  There is really no
comparison between w2k and win98. Memory management, stability,
multitasking and speed  improvements are significant over w98. I've
never used NT, so I can't comment about it.
There are some issues as vendors adjust to the changes in the OS, but
for trading workstations,
the benefits far outweigh any temporary incompatibilities.
   A suggestion for those who wish to take it slow. Win2k supports
dual booting, but you need
to have a 2nd primary partition. FDISK won't do this,  but a product
called Partition Magic five can. By purchasing and installing a new
drive, you can have an independent, isolated installation of Win2k
and still leave your Win98 install completely intact. This allows
selection of either platform at startup.
For complete details see:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/win2000/win2boot.asp
http://www.worldowindows.com/dualboot2000.html


Reggie

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(Copied from Sparklist)

I second that, and have been using it for about 2-3 months with IRT. I would
encourage people who consider going to 2k to not plan to do it overnight, in
case there are any upgrade/support issues with their hardware/software
configurations. I installed it on a new system from head to tow and only
installed things that I knew had 2k support/drivers, and since I did my
research (checked all manufacturer's/developers websites and downloaded 2k
drivers and soft. versions) for everything that I wanted install, I had NO
problems. But, although most people have had a pretty high degree of
success, and are very satisfied once everything's identified what is
supported and what isn't, there are some wierd issues out there that have
come up. I.E. bioses need upgrading, IDE or ATAPI hardware won't configure
properly, or software won't work, because its not compatible or supported
yet.

Many people have chosen to wait because of this, but for me, maximizing the
trading workstation is the highest priority, so I went for it and am very
glad I did.

John

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I see Bill posted to this list so I will also, as only the 4 of us
are subscribed to it. For 1, maybe chad can post this info regarding
holidays on web site for future reference. One nice thing about
egourps maillist over current besides cost is users can search on all
past emails, and sort etc... Chad maybe we can import all emails from
other list as we had many on feeds etc... I had all old emails but
lost them in a harddisk erase by me. maybe I can find them though.

also please note team that I have created 3 tables so far under
database to help Bill track polishes, and enhancements requests. was
easy to create and easy to change fields, sort, search, delete etc...
what you all think of them?

well more later... all looks great and egroups is excellent I feel also.

Mike____

ps: keep the mast pointed up!  good holiday team  :)

pss: also there might be a great opportunity with othernet owner,
nick name Opus Bill/Eric. not sure but Samoy mentioned maybe Bill and
Opus should talk or meet. He lives in Missouri

> Do I need to unclick the posting for the 4th of July holiday, or by default
> I/RT won't post the data at the EOD.
>
> Is there a list of "non-posting Holidays" in I/RT?

July 4 is recognized as a trading holiday by I/RT and no posting of
historical data will occur. A message informing you that it's a holiday
should appear. I/RT uses a file named "holidays" located in the admin
folder/directory to determine the dates and names of upcoming holidays as
well as the dates of abbreviated trading sessions. You can inspect this file
using File: Open: File. We update the file periodically in our update
releases. It contains lines of text like this:

991231,A,New Year's Eve
000117,H,Martin Luther King Day
000221,H,President's Day
000421,H,Good Friday
000529,H,Memorial Day
000704,Independence Day
000904,H,Labor Day
001123,H,Thanksgiving Day
001225,H,Christmas Day
010101,H,New Year's Day

The "H" means Holiday, the "A" means Abbreviated Trading Hours.
Interestingly, I just noticed that the Holidays file I have on my machine
(which may be out-of-date) does not have the "H" following the date for
000704. This means that the message mentioned above will not appear. You can
correct the file if needed so the line reads:  000704,H,Independence Day.
Even with this mistake, however, I/RT internally recognizes that July 4th
(when it occurs on a week-day) is a trading holiday and it will not record
historical data today.

It can all be done via email, I think.  I believe you can subscribe and
unsubscribe via email.  I'll check into that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike [mailto:Mike@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 11:00 PM
> To: linnsoft@egroups.com
> Subject: [linnsoft] Re: Just tesing
>
>
> --- In linnsoft@egroups.com, "Chad Payne" <chad@l...> wrote:
> > First message to the eGroups Discussion List
>
> looks ok, interesting. but need this to be all via email.
>
> Mike____
>
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test reply from my email client.

Mike____

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looks ok, interesting. but need this to be all via email.

Mike____

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