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.

BT,

I will get the guys to take a look.

Ian

Ian,

It's not only the problem highlighted by BT which needs to be addressed.

People have been pointing out for ages and ages that your data uses traded highs and lows instead of highest/lowest AT (for sets) and mid (for seaq's). Traded highs and lows are of no use whatsoever. This matter needs to be addressed, otherwise the product will remain totally worthless.

Hilary,

They will be taking a look into this first thing

Ian,

No disrespect, but I won't hold my breath. You said the same thing about the same problem to qwento on 4th November in post 113.

Hilary,

And every time these things are reported I refer them to the tech guys, they then work on them - obviously these problems are still there so I shall crack the whip with them this morning.

I will update you as soon as they have taken a look.

Ian

So that everyone signs off the same hymn sheet, we will use mid price calculations in all future standard downloads. The mid will be based on mid(bid/offer) and will not use any trade highs or lows on SETS/SEAQ stocks.

If needs be and if requested , we will also show under seperate fields trade high/lows etc.

Mike,

I believe that you should be using highest/lowest AT for sets stocks not the mid of the bid/offer spread.

Mike: in your eyes who is GOD on this? The LSE or whom? I'm willing to do the research to define the exact rules if we can agree who the referee is.

Hils/Brian. Because of the variety of external software we now support on downloads we need to have some similar basis of comparison. So we will use the official LSE mid close, mid open, mid high and mid low as published by them and supplied in our feed ( as I mentioned above). This will give us a start point.

Also we are happy to create alternate downloads for those that want them i.e trade highs/lows or a blend etc, but priority will be to fixing the mid format first.

Not wishing to upset anyone :-) but using the mid price is very wrong for SETS stocks. The mid price on close has no meaning since bid and offer are, depending on when you take them, either the ones on the order book just before the end of day auction, or the ones left over after the auction, neither of which has any particular meaning. The official close can be outside the low/high for the day and that would be missed if the mid prices are taken.

I think that the only sensible way to do it is for the low/high to be of the AT trades, including the official close, for SETS stocks, and of the mid prices, including the official close, for SEAQ stocks.

K; I know the best for 'traders'is AT highs etc, but we have to power a number of charting packages and other feeds who say they want mid and mid only, so we have to use that as our base data package. As I mentioned above a second download will be done so that those who want the AT highs and lows with SEAQ mids will have that as a seperate download. This should keep everyone happy (some chance)and gets everyone off my back:-)

The reason for the changes and standardisation will become clear over the next couple of weeks when we make an announcement about something:-)

Tease!

Mind you it seems to be worse elsewhere :-)


ShirishG (ADVFN) - 10 Mar'05 - 10:25 - 14341 of 14351

All,

We have our developers working on creating a new Data Downloads section.

I think The existing one has become a lost cause.

I think our developers are working on this in between projects, so it will take a little more time than expected.

Regards

Siri

As I said first thing today - "absolute crap". :)

Cue the free seven day offer to try out data download :-)

We are pleased to announce a 7 minute trial of .........0)

Has the promised second "proper" download been automatically filed in the waste basket now that 3 months have elapsed?

Ladies and Gents,

After a long time out of the loop, we are hoping that the problems with the Datadownload have been solved.

Please can you have a look and report back with any feedback you may have.

Many Thanks

Karl

Karl - I have taken a quick glance at last night's data.

I checked 3 stocks, AAL BARC and GSK - low's are incorrect on all 3 stocks.