Dear all,

We are currently developing a new Data Download tool and are looking for testers. On release, this will be for 'Active' and above subscription levels.

If you are interested please click here.

Your comments and suggestions are welcome.

Karl.

Doris,

How will I know which stocks to ramp if your download is dodgy?

:o)

Hilary,

I've been downloading files now from all over. It looks like my lovely new "download earlier" system is at fault :(

My new system gives more indices than our archived data. If you check all of last weeks downloads (and beyond) you will notice that there are only 286 per day. But today's has 349.

The extra indices are the FTSE European & Global with a postfix USD, GBP, EUR and JPY. Any idea what these indicies are and why they are different from the standard FTSE European indices? They don't appear to be quoted in different currencies.

K.

PS. I won't be around until friday, but never fear I will be on the case then.

Karl - Thanks. I reckon they really need to look at these high/low values.

Take tonight's data - a good example - AAL (Anglo American) low given as 1127 where as MoneyAM intraday charts and other provider data give a low of 1210.

Karl,

Thinking back, I seem to recall that those indices first appeared in your download on Thursday last week. They were then missing on Friday before returning again this week. I haven't got a clue what they are though and, in truth, I doubt that it really matters to me (or others) if they are present or not.

Karl,

There are a couple of stocks which I'd guess are old nil-paids:

BRJN
GENN

They seem to be in the list one day, but not the next day. It's been happening for a little while.

Requested data for the 12th. Download filename date was for the 14th. Internal column date and data was the 12th. Tad confusing when same filenames are used and stuff gets overwritten.

BT/Hil,

Karl is due in today, I will get him on the case.

Ian

Karl,

I've downloaded the FTSE100 data for the dates 12/08/2004 - 15/11/04 and I get 0 for the volume all other data is there.

Hope this helps.

Thanks
Marko

BT,

The file naming has been sorted now. The file downloaded now uses the date that was chosen, not the current date.

Marko,

We don't have volume data for the FTSE or any other index that I can find.

Karl.

Ian, Karl,

What's the situation regarding the "Com Stk Usd's"? Scrolling down through the download for Thursday 25th, they seem to be missing, yet they seem to have been included again on Friday 26th.

Hil,

I will get Geoff to take a look at this for you.

Ian

Ho hum - I've been looking at changing to AM data downloads for data processing needs, but it is not reliable.

09/12/2004 AHM Amersham Ord 5p 796 796 795.5 795.5 333,410 FTSE100

AHM? Don't think so... it's dead!
So why does it have a volume. Go check everywhere...

For the data to be relied upon it has to be reliable. Ohhhh how I luv stating the obvious. >-|

In fact the same damn stuff has been in the list for 3,6,7,8,9 of Dec.

BT,

Ditto. I've given up on it for now until they can get the data correct.

Ian, Karl,

Sorry, I know that I'm being critical, but the product will not be of any use whatsoever if the data isn't accurate.

BT/Hil,

I will pass this onto Geoff to take a look into it.

Ian

Please Ian, it would be a shame if you let this fall by the wayside having already done 99% of the work.

Personally, I can live with the odd bit of rogue data. My question in post 146 also remains unresolved, though, and it was at that point that I stopped downloading from you each night.

More important than that, however, is the fact that qwento's comments in posts 110 and 112 remain unresolved. If the high and low price of nearly every stock is inaccurate, then the product will remain totally worthless. BT will never be able to produce an accurate set of pivots if the highs and lows aren't right.

PS. What's happened to Karl?

Hil,

Point taken and I agree - I have sent a message to Geoff who will be in at around 9.30 and I will also speak to him so that we can get to work on trying to iron out the bugs in this.

In answer to the 'wat happened to Karl' question, he is now in the Carribean working on an eco yatch - it is apprently raining a lot!


Ian

It sounds like a rotten job. Someone's got to do it, I suppose.

The problem revolves around the fact that there are two sets of high/close values for the day.

The Traded HL and the Mid price HL.

MoneyAM's Stockwatch (and hence data feed) currently uses the former which I imagine feeds into the database and hence is used for the OHLCV end of day data.

Using the Traded HL for EOD data leads to all kinds of problems.

qwento,

Thanks I will pass this onto Geoff,

Ian