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The world just shifted underneath your feet. Did you feel it?
Today, after 18 months of preparations, we have finally started to serve charts using data from our new IDC/Comstock datafeed. At this point, intraday data for most US stocks is coming from our new IDC/Comstock datafeed instead of our Thomson/Reuters datafeed.
I've documented our past problems with the Thomson datafeed on many occasions. We were all reminded of those problems recently. Unfortunately, at this point, I can't guarantee that the IDC/Comstock feed will be any more reliabled, but at least there is reason for hope. And, in the spirit of verify-then-trust, we plan on keeping the Thomson datafeed around as a backup in case the IDC/Comstock feed has trouble.
Over the next couple of days/weeks/months, we will be tuning and tweaking our use of these two feeds and making sure that things are accurate, that the new feed performs quickly, and that it remains stable. There's a good chance that we will hit a bump or two as we go down that road. But the goal of having a better, more reliable data service is closer than ever and we are not going to stop until that goal is achieved.
