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-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Tann [mailto:grtann@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 1999 5:00 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Results Re:Volunteers Tests 1&2
Dan
Remember my new e-mail address:
grt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
The 768Kbs ADSL is working great. I can get used to this half T-1 speed.
Think I might prefer the greater speed of a cable modem (and lower cost) but
our great cable company is a couple of years away and DSL is here and now.
Plus GTE had a special through 1/31. If you signed up for a year's
contract, they gave you the modem for free as well as all installation.
Couldn't pass up the bargain <G>.
In term of switching months in our continuous contracts, we "never" trade
during delivery month. I had to qualify that never, because there are
always exceptions, like shortages of product and holding a long contract,
etc.
We usually switch months as soon as the new month's OI exceeds the active
month's OI. I usually try to switch on a Monday, but sometimes I forget.
Now this does vary with financials and indexes, but holds fairly true for
most agricultural commodities, etc.
With regards to Y2K, I think I'll make up a database and see what happens.
The reason I'm still using MS for DOS 4.5 is because when I made the
conversion to MS for Windows, my application went crazy. By that, I mean
that I could still do the calculations, however they took 30 times longer
for MS for Windows to work, and MS for Windows used my hard drive as a
scratch work area. The system sounded like it was grinding coffee <G>. I
worked with MS support for months trying to figure out why this would be, to
no avail. The automated conversion to 6.5 was totally worthless and the
system never worked even poorly as it did previously. For some reason, the
DOS version blows the socks off the Windows version. I take, maybe a minute
to do some of my calculations under DOS, and over 30 minutes with the
Windows version (same data, same machine).
My thought is to check out version 6.52 to see if I can get that to work
well (without taking all of the time necessary to do it) and then move on to
Visual Basic, etc.
Regards
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of D.Henderson
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 1999 6:09 AM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Results Re:Volunteers Tests 1&2
At 02:49 PM 1/28/99 -0800, "Guy Tann" <grtann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Dan
>
>I'm still using MS 4.5 DOS as well but for other reasons than you. I
>haven't looked at Y2K compliance because I just assumed it wouldn't be.
Did
>you generate your own test set? I'd be interested in hearing about what
you
>did and your results, even off line.
>
>BTW, I know my ISP is SLOW. With my 56kbs modem, the most I've seen in
>speed is 30-31.5kbs. That's why I just installed a 768kbs ADSL service, if
>I ever get it running <G>.
>
>Regards
>
>Guy
>
Guy,
I have found (thru your posts) that we do many things similar!!!
May I ask your reasons for using 4.5? Is it the programming problems?
Yes, I generated my own test data set....picked up one my kids mutual fund
data sets, offset the date by four years, set msu "NOT" to overwrite
existing dates, and loaded each data file. I got the following chart, "year"
display:
'95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03
I then broke up the data so that an individual daily feed happened from Dec
15, 1999 to Jan 15, 2000. Again no problems.
The only Y2K difficulty I have is with this stupid AT's MS-DOS/BIOS.
However this is only a very minor annoyance during power up! My real
computer is Y2K compliant already, and I can write a patch for this laptop
in a couple of seconds!
As soon as I convince my OS to format the data into MS format (IE: add the
"D" for "daily" field), I will ZIP it and send it to you. Most likely on
Sat, Jan 30, and again the subject will read "FOR YOUR EYES ONLY".
About your continuous contracts:
We both (more or less) do it the same! I watch the front month OI. As long
as it is increasing my software will not roll over. As it levels out, and
then starts to decrease, (10-15% reduction from the peak), I (read: my
software) will categorically roll the contract over. This is usually happens
a few days before FND! My software will also inform me to close/roll any
open positions that I "HAVE" at this time. My rational for programming in
this manner is: As FND approaches, the speculators will start to bail out,
when this happens, I am gone, ASAP! The net effect of your method vs mine is
virtually negligible other than you roll a few days later than I do! It is
from this reasoning that I assert that "we both (more or less) do it the
same."
Dan H.
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