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-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Russell <688842@xxxxxxxx>
To: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 12:46 PM
Subject: Fw: Readers Choice Award
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>> From: Ron Russell <688842@xxxxxxxx>
>> To: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Readers Choice Award
>> Date: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 11:57 AM
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>> I am reading a full page ad on page 15 of the April issue of Futures Mag
>> and I see that Metastock was the winner for five years in a row of "the
>> most coveted award in the investment software industry - THE READERS
>CHOICE
>> AWARD". Then I turn to page 11 and I see that the SAME award was won by
>> Tradestation for the SAME time period. What gives??.
My understanding is that MetaStock won for software < $500, TradeStation won
for > $500. They seem to have a category so that everyone can win and thus
advertise TASC Readers Choice Awards in their ads. Quite self serving on
both parts.
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>> I am now wondering how this award is arrived at - if the Readers of
>Stocks
>> & Commodities Mag choose the winners on a yearly basis, how come as a
>> reader I have never been surveyed as to my choice. Has anyone else on
>the
>> list been surveyed?
They have the surveys in a certain issue of their magazine. It is basically
a popularity contest of who owns what, not an analysis of which software is
best.
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>> Perhaps the editor of S&C Mag, who is a member of this list, will
>enlighten
>> us. I am most interested to find out if there is any real validity
>behind
>> this "award", or is it handed out to the highest bidder. I eagerly await
>> your
>> enlightenment.
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I would like to hear their version as well. I would also like to suggest to
them that instead of, or at least in addition to, the Reader's Choice
Awards, that John Sweeney or someone, give awards based on technical merit
in different categories.
>> Good trading
>> RDR
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Neil
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