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On 04/20/98 21:14:36 you wrote:
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>Well, I've returned my WOW Daytrader within the 30 day trial period.
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>It definitely has potential, but for my purposes of DayTrading, it
>was lacking. I was particularly disappointed in three aspects:
>1. The speed of loading charts is noticeably slower than with TS 4.0
>2. Their version of a scanner doesn't work LIVE intraday. I was
>hoping to be able to automatically scan every minute selected
>universes of stocks for new conditions, but this ability wasn't
>there.
>3. With a BMI news feed, you can't filter on a stock symbol directly.
> You must set up that symbol as a keyword.
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>The things I like are being able to have custom groups using intraday
>data. Something that is definitely lacking in TS 4.0.
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>It may be suitable if you don't already have TS, but for me it wasn't
>worth the switch.
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>Once I discovered the 2 deficiencies noted above, I pretty much
>stopped trying out other features as these were of main importance to
>me and without them, the package wasn't going to be what I needed, no
>matter what else it had.
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>I am going to continue to use TS for my backtesting as I feel that it
>does a good job (If it just didn't have the 13,000 tick limit and DID
>have custom data lists on server data, it would be MUCH more useful).
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>For my real-time trading, I will be using another package that better
>suits my needs.
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>I know you didn't receive a slew of commentary, but hopefully it was
>helpful to some people.
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>Cash
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>"I used to have a handle on life, but it broke."
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Should we assume that TS is the other package that you will be using for
real-time trading? Or is there something else...
Terrence
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