internet down ! aaaarrrrrgh ! ! ! ! ! - need quotes

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Wallace

my isp Shaw went down while i was in an fx trade, fortunately my digital phone still
worked and Oanada customer service closed my trade

Shaw cs hadn't any info about the outage, bye, five minutes later the service was down
again and after a loooong wait i learnt there was a server specific to my location amongst
others that was being repaired

while the service was back up after a few minutes i'm advised the estimated repair finish
time will be after 8:00am pst . until that time and a phone confirmation that the repair has
been completed i won't trade

since exiting the trade the eurusd went up 6pips, down 20, up 27, down 40, up, down
and upping again so a lot of pips going by

the main question is - whatever one trades -

what non isp realtime quote services are available ?
my requirement is for fx quotes
 
+1 on that. If you're eventually going to trade full time, you need to treat the matter as a business. (Good) Businesses have backup networks, data storage etc. if it's critical to their operation.

Having a backup plan for power, network and computer are critical to a trading business. Does it cost money? You bet. But so does having open positions you can't close.
 
thank for replies, i realize now i'd thought about backup via the phone company internet
service - no phone account required - ordered

used cqg satellite before and it went down, tho it's current up-time may have improved

Oanda don't have a telephone order desk so i was glad to know 'crisis trades' can be
made via the service rep, took a couple of minutes since the process is for the rep to
login with the account holder's info and enter the order via the trading platform

Oanda also has a free FXTrade Mobile program for pda/cell that provides quotes and
order entry: http://fxlabs.oanda.com/cgi/fxlabs.pl?n=fxtrademobile

MetaQuotes mobiles for pda or cell - mini version of MT4 - charts: http://www.metaquotes.net/en/metatrader4/mobile_trading

i backup data via thumb drives and while i only have one computer, i'm more concerned
with being able to close any trades in a 'crisis' rather than a power outage or a computer
crash; currently i'm only trading fx not a variety of instruments, however if i were operating
a 'business' rather than being a 'home trader' i would have a full redundant system
 
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