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[amibroker] Re: Use Tradestation in place of Esignal/MyTrack/Amibroker/Sierra



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Happy b'day Tomasz!

I agree Richard Tomasz is a great guy with lots of good work and I 
personally like AB.

But this is business and we have to make sure we are using the tools 
which are perfect and help us in trading without wasting much of our 
time.

I regret to say AB is far from this yet. The way its going it may 
reach there in 3 years time but not yet.

Tradestation 8 is very powerfull and the comments which I had here 
were about previous version of TS2000i. Tradestation 8 is a totally 
different product though built on the same principles.

Its Easy Language, scrolling of windows so you can see more than 7 
charts in one window itself, System testing, backtesting, portfolio 
management, alerts, various studies and vast indicators which have 
been written over all these years, a big user base, applying one 
indicator over another indicator(Like RSI of CCI) and many other 
features like that which are so easy to use. In AMI yo uhave to code 
for al lthese and if you get a pre-written code yo uahve to struggle 
with its bugs. Ami is not object oriented thjats its problem wit hthe 
charting.

Ami's charting is very primitive at the moment. I have to still see 
the new beta version. AB is the best EOD trading tool but for not 
real time day trading. Look at its real time options it can't even 
give you real tick charts unless you use esignal. Why will I use AB 
when I already have esignal? Esignal's charting is the best.

For your information, I am a member of one of the very popular 
trading rooms on HOTCOMM( Woodies room  )with atleast 750 traders 
online at any moment. Most of these traders are day traders and deal 
future which is a very fast moving market. I have not seen a single 
user there posting AMIBROKER chart on this website.

They all use, post and recommend esignal/sierra/Tradestation.
Compared to esignal and sierra, Tradestation is on much above field 
and is generally used by professional institutional traders.

Earlier TS used to be very expensive but with their rates coming down 
due to more competion from IB and esignal I personally think TS 8 is 
the best and worth its money which can aid in your trading.

Just $99 a month with chepest brokerage rates and you get everything 
in one place. I do not see any such offer from any package/data 
vendor/Broker.

Thanks
Vishal


time--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Richard Harper" 
<rdharper@xxxx> wrote:
> Tomasz;   
> 
> Hard work, talent, and a bit of genius is a pretty good 
prescription for success in any field.
> 
> Happy Birthday!
> 
> Richard
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Tomasz Janeczko 
>   To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 3:41 PM
>   Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Use Tradestation in place of 
Esignal/MyTrack/Amibroker/Sierra
> 
> 
>   Wow... Everybody Thank You !  
> 
>   Did you somehow find out that I have a birthday tommorrow and 
because of that you are saying all those nice things ???
> 
>   You don't have idea how much I appreciate the support all of you 
have been giving to me over years.
>   This all has happened because you belived in me, invested your 
money and invested lots of time learning a new program.
>   This happened because everyone started to spread the word about 
AmiBroker and more and more people
>   became aware that such product exists and it is worth looking at. 
This happened because you had enough patience
>   to explain your needs and enough patience to wait for the 
implementation. 
> 
>   I thank everyone here for so much valuable feedback. AmiBroker 
would not evolve so much without all
>   the suggestions, ideas , comments, spreading the word and all 
kind of support I have received from all of you.
>   Thank you !
> 
>   Best regards,
>   Tomasz Janeczko
>   amibroker.com
> 
> 
>     ----- Original Message ----- 
>     From: Herman van den Bergen 
>     To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>     Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 11:17 PM
>     Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: Use Tradestation in place of 
Esignal/MyTrack/Amibroker/Sierra
> 
> 
>     The best thing about AmiBroker is that if you want a special 
feature and it is reasonable Tomasz probably adds it to the program. 
On this list you will find countless people who CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT 
TO DO only because Tomasz listened and added the required features. 
He has done this hundreds of times, for many people. I myself still 
grumble a bit now and then (just like you i want it yesterday!) but 
over the years I have seen so many requests implemented that I don't 
even dare to quess how many there may have been. I am sure this is 
the case for many others as well.
> 
>     So, Tomasz, I take this opportunity to say "Thank You" just 
once more.
>     ...be it a love-fest or not :-))))
> 
>     Herman.
> 
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: mikelaurataylor [mailto:mikelaurataylor@x...]
>       Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:21 PM
>       To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       Subject: [amibroker] Re: Use Tradestation in place of 
Esignal/MyTrack/Amibroker/Sierra
> 
> 
> 
>       I'll add one more thought.
> 
>       I've just been going through the process myself; having both 
sent in 
>       an application for Tradestation to cover my bases about 2 
weeks ago 
>       (not activiated it yet) - and, being a current IB trader; 
having 
>       purchased Amibroker.    During this process I tried to answer 
the 
>       same question you are grappling w/.
> 
>       One reason I decided to start w/ AB and see how far it can 
take me 
>       is that one of my strategies deals w/ shorting stocks and I 
read on 
>       another board that TS brokerage offers about 3000+ shortable 
stocks, 
>       while IB offers over 5000+ shortable stocks.   I don't know 
if that 
>       is 100% accurate or not (pulled it from another board) but it 
>       influanced my decision to start here.
> 
>       Also, I don't know how the programming languages compare but 
despite 
>       a bit of a learning curve I'm extremely impressed in about 1 
week w/ 
>       the product.  It is clearly extremely powerful.   Also, 
having sent 
>       about 10 questions to support to help get over humps I've 
been 
>       impressed that for the most part they have all been responded 
to 
>       very quickly.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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