hi,

today I find that all of a sudden FD is no longer an active symbol.  Apparently 
there has been a name change and FD is now M.  In the database FD is gone but  
there is no M.  

I wonder who decided that inactive symbols should disappear from 1 day to the 
other. It is clear now that a user can impossibly prepare for this other than 
to make a backup of the database every day in some other format and then 
afterwards try to figure out what changes in the database have been made and 
reconstruct.  Has this been discussed on this board?  QP makes changes without 
informing their customers.   I never received any notice that there is a change 
in policy. It was just there because apparently there is a majority of users 
who want this. How has this majority been measured.  Seems to me that when 
designing trading systems one does not want symbols to suddenly disappear. I 
guess the majority of QP users is not using the data to design systems. I guess 
I am forced to look into alternatives.

Ed  
 

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