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Hi David - Good to hear from you. And I agree with you 100%. Except I'll go to the
tennis courts and the golf course - not the lake <g>.
What's a string? And what's the embedded code in the editor indicator window
(you'll have to excuse me - I'm not an engineer). And - when you talk about paying
someone to convert your work for SuperCharts 4 - what do you mean?
For example - this is just a little something I wrote today (it's my version of the
Formula Research work on protective stops for the Pankin Select Fund System). My
understanding is I can't do anything like this with SuperCharts 4 - no matter how
much I pay someone. Am I right?
If 1=1 then begin vars: OnABuy(false), OnASell(false); if CurrentBar = 1 then
Value1 = Close; if MarketPosition = 0 and Close < Value1 then Value1 = Close; if
MarketPosition = 1 and Close > Value1 then Value1 = Close; OnABuy = Close >= Close
[LB] and (Close >= Value1 * (1 - PCT) and Close >= EntryPrice(0) * PCT2); OnASell =
Close <= Value1 * (1 - PCT) or Close <= EntryPrice(0) * PCT2; if OnABuy then Buy on
Close; if OnASell then Exitlong on Close; end; if 1=2
Maybe if enough people like you and me write here - Omega will consider bringing
back EOD TradeStation - or some product that will take the place of our SuperCharts
2.1. There are a bunch of people who want a sophisticated program for EOD work.
Robyn
King wrote:
> You're sure not. I bought SC 2.1 right after it came out, and amazingly, it
> is one of the few programs I have never been able to crash--ever. And I have
> heaped every imaginable abuse on it. Compact, efficient, and bulletproof.
> That's my kind of program. It makes me shudder to read the many tales of
> problems with TS I read on this list. If Omega had chosen to upgrade SC 2.1
> by removing the embedded code in the editor indicator window, there probably
> wouldn't be any other EOD programs available right now. Every EOD trader in
> America would be using Supercharts. It surely would have canabalized a few
> TS sales, but TS would still be the premier real time program for those that
> require that. Instead, Omega chose to dumb it down. I bought SC4 but found
> it bigger, more complicated, and virtually useless for my purposes since it
> doesn't read the old EL format, making several years of work useless, unless
> I pay somebody to convert my systems. And to me, strings are still something
> I tie my shoes with, although they are obviously important to some for other
> reasons. So SC4 was relegated to the dustbin.
>
> Unless Omega within the next two years comes out with something like SC with
> a decent editor or TS EOD without the pork, there is going to be one less
> stock trader around. I retired from electrical engineering 15 years ago and
> have been trading stocks ever since. But it may be getting close to the time
> to go to the lake --for good.
>
> David
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