NYSE Resolves Dispute Over Real-Time Quotes
from the coming-to-you-in-real-time dept
Back in November we mentioned the story of various online finance sites complaining to the SEC about the high prices that stock exchanges were charging for access to real time-quotes. It clearly seemed like the exchanges were missing the big picture, by trying to make as much money as possible upfront by selling the quotes, as opposed to seeing the long-term value of giving out more useful data to the public. It appears now that the impasse has been resolved, with the NYSE coming to terms with Google and Yahoo on a price for real-time quotes. For $100,000 per month, these sites will be able to redistribute the real-time data to their users free of charge. That still seems like a lot of money, and indeed the Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch (both owned by Dow Jones) don't think the price is worth it. It is possible that the Journal and MarketWatch just don't think there's much need for it, since presumably a high percentage of their readers have access to the data through an online brokerage account. Even with the new agreement, it still seems like the exchanges are shortsighted to nickel and dime the online finance sites over this data.
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A different approach
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doesn't matter
Joe Q. Public can surely cope with a 15minute delay
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stock schmocks
Isn't the whole point of a stock exchange that the companies that join it are publicly traded? Therefore their share price is public knowledge which everyone has a right to know. Moreover, the exchange has a duty to publish it. Or am I not even on the right planet?
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Re: stock schmocks
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THE NYSE SHOUD GIVE QUOTES AWAY ON ITS OWN SITE FREE TO ONE AND ALL AND THEY SHOULD SELL ADVERTISING THEMSELVES AND WHEN THE GET A COUPLE OF HUNDRED MILLION VIEWERS THEY INSTEAD OF YAHOO GOOGLE ET AL CAN TAKE IN THE BILLIONS
THE NYSE IS NOT SHORTSIGHTED IT IS YOUR CONCLUSION THAT IS. FORCING THE EXCHANGES TO GIVE OTHERS REAL TIME QUOTES FREE OF CHARGE IS CONTRARY TO THE "TAKINGS" LAWS
THAT ONLY YAHOO ET AL SHOULD SHOULD BE PRIVILEGED TOI USE REAL TIME QUOTES SO THEY CAN SELL ADVERTISING IS AN UTTERLY INSANE VIEWPOINT.
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Re: stock schmocks
THE NYSE SHOUD GIVE QUOTES AWAY ON ITS OWN SITE FREE TO ONE AND ALL AND THEY SHOULD SELL ADVERTISING THEMSELVES AND WHEN THE GET A COUPLE OF HUNDRED MILLION VIEWERS THEY INSTEAD OF YAHOO GOOGLE ET AL CAN TAKE IN THE BILLIONS
THE NYSE IS NOT SHORTSIGHTED IT IS YOUR CONCLUSION THAT IS. FORCING THE EXCHANGES TO GIVE OTHERS REAL TIME QUOTES FREE OF CHARGE IS CONTRARY TO THE "TAKINGS" LAWS
THAT ONLY YAHOO ET AL SHOULD SHOULD BE PRIVILEGED TOI USE REAL TIME QUOTES SO THEY CAN SELL ADVERTISING IS AN UTTERLY INSANE VIEWPOINT.
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Stock exchange monopolies
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only traders need real time quotes
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Reality Check
With regard to the first reply, the thought that you could, for only $100,000, hire people to watch and report live trades is absolutely ridiculous! Consider the following:
Assume you pay an entry-level data entry rate of $3,000 per month, and assume a 15% employee burden for taxes and very minimal benefits. For $100,000 you would be able to hire at most 29 employees, not counting any other expenses whatsoever.
The reality is that 29 employees would not even be able to keep up with a single stock such as AAPL, let alone the thousands of security instruments on the US exchanges. For example, AAPL yesterday (1/11/2007) had 228,387 trades reported during market hours only. This is approximately 10 trades per second. At this rate, not even 10 employees could keep up with this trade volume.
I agree with the 2nd poster - if you need real-time quotes you will have different tools to use already and thus any delayed quoting on Google or Yahoo is irrelevant.
Posts 3, 4 and 5 - you guys are forgetting that the fact that it is not cheap, or free, to maintain all of the systems to provide the data. It's not like they can just open up a few ports on a firewall somewhere and let everyone get the data the want! The thought that simply because the exchanges facilitate the trades they can automatically deliver data on those trades to anybody who wants it in real-time for free, or at negligible costs, is extremely naive. Furthermore, the implication that since the companies are publicly traded the exchanges should deliver data at no charge is ludicrous. This is like saying that since you own your car, you would expect a tow truck driver to tow your car for free, after all it's your car, right? That is crazy. Obviously the tow truck driver needs to be compensated for the work that he/she does even though you own the car, just as the exchanges have every right to be compensated for work they do, which includes designing, building, and maintaining the data systems that allow the public market to even exist.
I do however agree with the comment about short sale information, that is bogus and they should report that as trades happen.
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please explain yourself
Absolute nonsense. Why not? Are you suggesting that the NYSE, arguably the single greatest point of capital exchange on the entire planet, is unable to provide a view of the data which comprises its singular raison d'etre, while a private business like Google is able to provide satellite imagary of that entire planet for free to all and sundry? That argument is laughable.
The thought that simply because the exchanges facilitate the trades they can automatically deliver data on those trades to anybody who wants it in real-time for free, or at negligible costs, is extremely naive.
Don't just say that it is naive. Give one credible reason why. Just one.
Furthermore, the implication that since the companies are publicly traded the exchanges should deliver data at no charge is ludicrous.
You just restated the same unsubstantiated opinion again without providing a jot of support to it. That's not an implication, it's a well founded assertion. A public entity has a duty to operate in public or cease to call itsellf a public exchange.
This is like saying that since you own your car, you would expect a tow truck driver to tow your car for free, after all it's your car, right? That is crazy.
Now you offer an empty analogy. An analogy so poor I cant even see what you're getting at.
You are entirely avoiding the critical issue. The stock exchange is nothing more than a data exchange, one in which the data packets represent stocks, bonds and financial instruments. It's sole mandate is to allow dynamic valuation of the companies that trade upon it by dissemination of the values of those companies. What did you think the purpose of the stock exchange is? Without that data what possible value would an exchange have against over the counter trading? The valuations are an unavoidable byproduct of that process and can be replicated at zero cost.
Obviously the tow truck driver needs to be compensated for the work that he/she does even though you own the car
This the usual straw man wheeled out to support every argument of this class. Someone somewhere needs to be compensated. No they don't. There is no additional cost worth speaking of to providing data that already exists.
work they do, which includes designing, building, and maintaining the data systems that allow the public market to even exist.
You just shot yourself in the foot. What does the stock exchange do? It's a data system. Now share the fucking data with the rest of us who have every right to see what is being traded in public or we may elect to remove your right to enjoy the oversight of public scrutiny and you can return to stabbing each others backs in smoke filled rooms.
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Re: please explain yourself
Nowhere do I suggest that the exchanges are unable to provide the data. And I agree with you completely that the data is simply a byproduct of the exchange’s business.
Perhaps I should clarify my position. I do agree that the exchanges should provide its data to the public. What I do not agree with however, is the expectation that the exchange provide the data in REAL-TIME at no charge, versus on a delayed basis.
I am not quite sure why you had to get so emotional at the end of your post. You can still get the data you’re so upset about now at no charge, just a little delayed…
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Good story
Also, I think everyone is taking the term "public" way too literally. Just because it's a public exchange, this does not mean that the info disseminated in it is public domain.
The information contained in the exchanges belongs to those who built it.
When governments begin acting as though they own personal property, nothing gets built... history is littered with examples of this.
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daytraders, fees and of no consequence?
I do not have the kind of money to invest with the big boys, instead I'm using places like Sharebuilder and recently the new site SogoInvest. For someone who can't trade thousands of shares at a time, SogoInvest has a very agreeable real time trade rate. Oddly, and perhaps due to the fact that it costs so much to purchase the service , SogoInvest does not offer streaming real time quotes. Which in turn puts a bit of a damper on the whole day trading idea for me.
In short I suppose this is a response to those who have made the statement that it "doesn't matter" due to the fact that people who need this service already have the "expensive" tools they need to do this. I wonder how many other people are out there that would be a whole lot more involved in day trading if this service was offered. I am waiting for Google to activate the service and appreciate the fact that they are doing this.
Also, I'm kinda wondering about your attitudes towards money in the first place. Why would you say this is not important that Google would offer this service for free? I looked around a bit and a lot of the real time streaming quote services charge you a per month fee. There was some dude who wasn't a president but nonetheless got his picture on our currency that once said "a penny saved is a penny earned". Even if I was the type of daytrader that could afford to buy the proper tools, why would I now that Google plans to offer the service for free?
I don't blame anyone for the way things are set up, I just try to find work arounds that will allow me to do what I want and/or need to do. After all, using SogoInvest and streaming real time quotes threatens the jobs or at least a portion of income for more traditional stockbrokers. You can't blame an entrenched system for trying to ensure it's survival, but you can look for the golden nuggets that slip through the fingers of the foolish. So, for those of you who have said "this is of no use", thank you for letting the golden nugget slip through your fingers. I intend to take it and run with it.
Signed,
John Q. Public
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REAL TIME QOTES ARE VALUABLE PROPERTY
THE NYSE SHOUD GIVE QUOTES AWAY ON ITS OWN SITE FREE TO ONE AND ALL AND THEY SHOULD SELL ADVERTISING THEMSELVES AND WHEN THE GET A COUPLE OF HUNDRED MILLION VIEWERS THEY INSTEAD OF YAHOO GOOGLE ET AL CAN TAKE IN THE BILLIONS
THE NYSE IS NOT SHORTSIGHTED IT IS YOUR CONCLUSION THAT IS. FORCING THE EXCHANGES TO GIVE OTHERS REAL TIME QUOTES FREE OF CHARGE IS CONTRARY TO THE "TAKINGS" LAWS
THAT ONLY YAHOO ET AL SHOULD SHOULD BE PRIVILEGED TOI USE REAL TIME QUOTES SO THEY CAN SELL ADVERTISING IS AN UTTERLY INSANE VIEWPOINT.
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