Which Reuters Product?

roctheworld · Nov 27, 2017

Greetings! This is my first post.

I'm wondering which Reuters Product is best for long-tern strategy(24m+) testing of International stocks (north America included) based on weekly price movement, volume and financials? I contacted their sales in the US, who happened to be rather confused... Their EU office is not very knowledgeable either.

I know reuters fundamental data is not on par with bb, capital iq or factset, but it's certainly cheaper and covers many more markets than I can trade. Most importantly, on the whole it's decent enough for me.

And is it true that Reuters doesn't have a cap for daily data download? Just in case I want to export 10gb of data in one day

Any ideas guys?

just21 · Nov 27, 2017

End of day data Reuters datalink $24.95 https://www.metastock.com/products/data/

Reuters eikon badged metastock xenith $99 or $150 https://www.metastock.com/products/realtime/xenith/?overview

If you want fundamental data look at www.ycharts.com as I am not sure you can download data from metastock xenith via API. This maybe one of the restrictions to get the low price compared with Reuters eikon. Check with metastock.

srinir · Nov 27, 2017

just21 said:
I am not sure you can download data from metastock xenith via API. This maybe one of the restrictions to get the low price compared with Reuters eikon.

I do have Xenith. You can download data to Excel. They also provide many templates or you can build your own sheets with their many functions.

roctheworld · Nov 27, 2017

Thanks guys, I know reuters' financial data goes back 9 financial years. How about Xenith?

roctheworld · Nov 27, 2017

Wait a minute, Xenith IS powered by Reuters it seems... Damn they have too many brands

just21 · Nov 27, 2017

roctheworld said:
Wait a minute, Xenith IS powered by Reuters it seems... Damn they have too many brands

Xenith is a Reuters eikon terminal with some limits for about 10% of the price. A few stories cannot be read but you get the headline. Ask metastock what the limits are, do report back.

Look at www.ycharts.com

truetype · Nov 27, 2017

roctheworld said:
sales in the US, who happened to be rather confused... Their EU office is not very knowledgeable either.

Drop by their offices in NYC (or London, or...) for a demo. In person, I've found them gracious and knowledgeable.

I know reuters fundamental data are not on par with bb, capital iq or factset

No idea how you concluded that. Reuters is blue-chip. (Btw, BBG doesn't offer a research-quality db.)

roctheworld · Dec 4, 2017

truetype said:
Drop by their offices in NYC (or London, or...) for a demo. In person, I've found them gracious and knowledgeable.

No idea how you concluded that. Reuters is blue-chip. (Btw, BBG doesn't offer a research-quality db.)

Maybe was just my lucky day to run into their B team :sneaky:

They might be better equipped for answering technical questions, however stumbled when I asked them about nitty gritty of fundamental research related features.

roctheworld · Dec 4, 2017

truetype said:
Drop by their offices in NYC (or London, or...) for a demo. In person, I've found them gracious and knowledgeable.

No idea how you concluded that. Reuters is blue-chip. (Btw, BBG doesn't offer a research-quality db.)

I got the same feeling about Bloomberg as well, but care to give a few examples?

srinir · Dec 4, 2017

roctheworld said:
Maybe was just my lucky day to run into their B team They might be better equipped for answering technical questions, however stumbled when I asked them about nitty gritty of fundamental research related features.

What kind of fundamental research related features you are looking for?