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From: johnl@ima.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.invest
Subject: Re: Stock Ticker
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 21:40:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 21:40:00 1985
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A less expensive service than getting a dedicated radio receiver is
Dow Phone which provides stock quotes and business news over any tone
phone.  You punch in codes for stocks on which you want prices or
companies and industries on which you want information.  You can set up
a "portfolio" of codes so you just punch in a digit or two and it rattles
off the prices of all your favorite stocks or news stories about your
favorite companies and industries.  The user interface is well designed
for serious users so you can interrupt stories you don't care about, skip
ahead and back, and so forth.

The cost is 50 cents/minute plus the call to their computer in New Jersey.
If you subscribe to SBS Skyline long distance, you can get it through SBS
(and have the charges appear on your SBS bill) or else get it directly
from Dow Jones.

I use it now and then, and it works as advertised.  The advantage is that
you only pay when you use it, the disadvantage is that you have to be next
to a phone to use it and if you call all the time it would get expensive.
Then again, current market thinking says that you can't make money over the
long term by rapid trading, so you shouldn't want to call all the time, anyway.

John Levine, ima!johnl


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