I am new to the list and have been 'lurking' for a couple of mos. I had
hoped the traffic here would fill me in on all that xpress data has to
offer, but the traffic has been light.
Can some one point me to a FAQ, or explain the how, what, when, and where's
of xpress data?
BTW - Richard - I will be joining the Iridium project in Chandler on 10/2/95.
Thanks in advance.
Dennis Shreve
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>Hi Bill,
>
>Thanks for continuing to respond. You don't really need to burn in all of your
>friend's disk for collecting quotes. I'm getting along with just a small
>section of a disk so far.
>
>The stocks are sent out about three times a day, and I'm really only
>interested in those that are sent from 5PM to 9PM (MST) local time.....
>This would be the last transmission/closing quotes from xpress.... All
>other times, I just nuke the stock_data file every hour on the hour.
>
>If you were to capture (not delete) between 8 and 9 PM EST , and then
>be able to do a unique sort on the resulting file, then the data would
>amount to about about 140K if you gzip it.
>
>Here's the schedule:
>
># Subject: Attention XChange Users!
>#
># Effective Thursday, January 12, Ingenius will begin transmitting 8869 stock
># symbols on a three times per day basis. The schedule will be:
>#
># * Opening Quote - 10:30 am EST and again every 15 minutes for one hour
>#
># * Mid-day Quote - 2:00 pm EST and again every 15 minutes for one hour
>#
># * Closing Quote - 8:00 pm EST and again every 15 minutes for one hour
>#
># Please note that the fifteen minute delayed continuous stock feed, which was
># a part of the Executive Service, will stop on January 9, at 9:00 am EST.
>#
># A complete list of the 8869 symbols is available for download to your
computer
># in tab-delimited ASCII format. Select the appropriate MAC or DOS file
># in Software Download.
>#
>
>If you have a unix flavored box, I could send you my crontab entries for
>deleting the file when necessary and capturing it as needed.... This might
>need a little tweaking for your configuration, but I'm more than willing
>to share what I have for plotting the results too.
>
>So far, you're the only respondent who has offered to back me up, but I wonder
>how many are really using what is available. I'm going to copy the mailing
>list on this response, and am more than willing to share what I have so far
>for processing the resultant data ( plotting results ), but my last inquiry as
>to a more common format of the stock data netted zero.
>
>I've had very good results getting gnuplot to work with my equipment, and it
>does a pretty good job producing volume/price plots.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
>
>According to Bill Fenner:
>
>> In message <199509181807.LAA09129@valet.phx.mcd.mot.com> you write:
>> >Once again, I find myself in need of assistance in insuring that the daily
>> >closing quotes and volumes are captured while my system is down. If anybody
>> >can help with this, I'd certainly appreciate it.
>
>> I turned on "xpress -s" last night. I just checked, and stock_data is 12
>> megabytes. Is this the expected daily size?
>
>> (At this daily size, I have space for about a month of data before having to
>> compress it... but my roommate might get a little upset since it's *his* new
>> gig disk =)
>
>> Bill
>
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>
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