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- Total Investor Data Links
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- HFS Data Links automate the updating process for Total Investor
- relieving you of the tedium of manual data entry. In addition to our
- Dow Jones News/Retrieval, Compuserve, and Signal products we now have
- Data Links for Prodigy, Fidelity Investors Express, MarketWatch, and
- Generic ASCII data. A description of each of these services and
- products is provided below.
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- The Data Link templates process data either provided by the quote
- service or captured in ASCII files with a modem and communication
- software such as Procomm. The data link templates will then use this
- data to update the portfolios and HQFILES of Total Investor. All data
- services listed above provide the latest quotes on your security
- positions. If you require historical information, the DJN/R and
- Compuserve Data Links should be considered.
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- All data link products come with on-disk documentation and are
- available only to registered users of Total Investor. If you choose to
- order any of these products please use the form at the end of this
- document.
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- Prodigy Data Link
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- The Prodigy Interactive Service costs $12.95 per month and has no
- additional fees to access current day stock, bond, and mutual fund
- quotes. Of course, Prodigy is much more than a quote service offering
- a wide array of services such as news, weather, and general interest
- forums. Up until this time, we have not been able to develop a data
- link for Prodigy since there was no way to capture the Prodigy quote
- screens into ASCII files. Now we are pleased to offer you a product
- that is a result of a joint effort with Micro Warehouse, the producer
- of a program named Stock-Watch.
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- Stock-Watch is a menu driven utility for downloading quotes and
- other information from the Prodigy Service. It has the capability to
- download automatically 180 stock, bond, and mutual fund quotes and 80
- "extra" quotes from the Prodigy Market Update and Market Close screens.
- This product can also download company news on the stocks you follow
- and has a feature named "ProLimit" to help spot downside and upside
- breakouts. Stock-Watch may be put on a timer to automatically download
- while you are away, even for days at a time. For more information or
- to order Stock-Watch you can call Micro Warehouse at 1-214-349-1533.
- If you prefer to write they are located at P.O. Box 181507, Dallas, TX
- 75218. Please note that Stock-Watch requires the use of a hard disk
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- Stock-Watch generates ASCII text files as a record of the quotes
- downloaded each day. HFS has produced a data link product for these
- text files that can update the portfolios and historical quote files of
- Total Investor automatically. This product can update multiple
- portfolios from a single quote file and offers you the option to append
- the high/low/close/volume data to the HQFILES. The Data Link can also
- be configured in an AutoRun mode to do this updating as soon as the
- template is loaded without manually having to type in commands.
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- Stock-Watch lists for $39.95+($3 S/H) and the Data Link is priced
- at $29.95. Registered users of Total Investor can purchase Stock-Watch
- and the Data Link together for $59.95 (+$3 S/H). This combined
- product can be ordered either from HFS or Micro Warehouse.
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- Fidelity Investor's Express
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- Fidelity Investments offers an online brokerage service for $12
- per month named Investor's Express. Investor's Express is accessed as
- one of the databases on Dow Jones News Retrieval. In addition to
- trading, quotes are provided both on 20 minute delay during the day and
- on a closing basis for both mutual funds and stocks. HFS has developed
- a Data Link which can process ASCII files downloaded from this service.
- The features are similar to the Prodigy Data Link noted above. These
- quotes files are captured using the "logging" feature of communication
- software such as Procomm or Procomm Plus. For more information on
- Investors Express, you can contact Fidelity at 1-800-225-5531. This
- Data Link has a list price of $29.95
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- Signal
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- Signal is a quote service provided by the Data Broadcasting Co.
- that uses a receiver to obtain quotes which are transmitted by a local
- FM radio station or by satellite. The Signal Data Link is a 1-2-3
- template that interfaces with the Signal receiver to update Total
- Investor portfolios and HQFILES. This a very low cost way to keep an
- extensive security database . End of day service currently costs $65
- per month for an unlimited number of quotes. A program named Linc is
- provided with Signal to allow 1-2-3 and the HFS Data Link to
- communicate with the receiver over RS-232. The Linc program has been
- designed to work with 1-2-3 Versions 2.X and will not operate with
- Quattro Pro. For further information on Signal call 1-800-367-4670
- Ext. 541. The Signal Data Link is priced at $45.
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- MarketWatch
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- MarketWatch is a another quote service provided by the Data
- Broadcasting Corporation (1-800-777-3334 ext 831). MarketWatch works
- off your existing cable TV cable with a receiver which you lease from
- the company. The software which runs Marketwatch can produce ASCII
- text files containing end of day quotes. HFS is pleased to announce a
- Data Link for $45 which can process these files to update Total
- Investor.
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- Compuserve
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- Compuserve provides both historical and end of day quotes that can
- be captured in ASCII files using your communication software. The
- Compuserve Data Link generates a batch file, called a TICFILE, that is
- used to automatically query Compuserve for each security in a Total
- Investor portfolio. This TICFILE is uploaded to Compuserve which will
- then create a ASCII PRN file filled with quotes for you to download.
- The QQUOTE database of Compuserve is used for current quotes while the
- PRICE database is used for historical quotes. Per quote charges of
- $.01 per current quote and $.05 per historical quote apply in addition
- to online charges. You may wish to order now since the price of this
- template will soon be increased from its current price of $25.
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- Dow Jones News/Retrieval
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- The DJN/R Data Link can generate script files for Procomm that
- will automate the data retrieval function for both current and
- historical quotes. These script files will automatically query the
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- database and capture the session in an ASCII file. The //CQE database
- of DJN/R is used for current quotes and the //HQ database is used for
- historical data. The //HQ database carries approximately 1 year of
- data on preferred and common stocks, warrants, and rights. Only online
- charges apply to these databases, not per quote charges. This product
- currently lists for $35.
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- Generic ASCII Data Link
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- Another Data Link Product has been created to handle the import of
- comma delimited ASCII files into Total Investor. Quotes in the
- following format can be processed by this product to update Total
- Investor.
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- "SYMBOL","MO/DY/YY","HIGH","LOW","CLOSE","VOLUME"
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- If you have a series of quotes this data link will add each quote
- to the HQFILE which the symbol represents. Multiple quotes for
- multiple securities may be included in a single ASCII file. This same
- ASCII quote file can be used to update your portfolio.
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- This quote format is produced by a wide array of commercial and
- shareware software. Even if you don't have a modem, the Generic ASCII
- data link can speed your data entry. Many of you have requested a way
- to avoid having to enter data twice to update the portfolios and
- HQFILES of Total Investor. An editor or word processor can create a
- single ASCII quote file which can then be processed by the data link to
- do both of these tasks.
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- The Generic ASCII data link is priced at $29.95.
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- Total Investor Data Link Order Form
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- Please use this form to order. Data Links are only available to
- registered users of Total Investor.
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- Remit to: Hughes Financial Services
- P.O. Box 1244
- Nashua, N.H. 03061-1244
- Please send :
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- Quantity
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- ____ Compuserve Data Link .......................@ $ 25.00 ea $ ______
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- ____ Prodigy Data Link ..........................@ $ 29.95 ea $ ______
- (Requires Stock-Watch Software)
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- ____ Generic ASCII Data Link ....................@ $ 29.95 ea $ ______
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- ____ Fidelity Investors Express Data Link .......@ $ 29.95 ea $ ______
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- ____ Dow Jones News Retrieval Data Link .........@ $ 35.00 ea $ ______
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- ____ Signal Data Link ...........................@ $ 45.00 ea $ ______
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- ____ MarketWatch Data Link ......................@ $ 45.00 ea $ ______
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- ____ Prodigy Data Link & Stock-Watch ............@ $ $62.95 ea $ ______
- (Special Offer, $59.95+$3 S/H)
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