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i called my old firm and asked if what was on everyones' desk (i left 3 years
ago).....
i was with fixed income----------------everyone had a bloomberg.........actually
every two had a bloomberg placed between two traders.(it has two
sereens/monitors...there are about 300 traders...
rich t
Neal T. Weintraub wrote:
> I am here in Chicago and I cannot find one Trade Station at my clearing
> firm. But then again we are only a clearing member of the Board of Trade.
> Not a bash, or a trash...merely a fact.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy Morge <tmorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, September 21, 1998 2:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Yet another letter to Bill Cruz
>
> >No offense to anyone's opinions here...but TradeStation programs are not
> sitting
> >on thousands of institutional trading desks. TS is certainly not up to th
> >rigours of a large networked trading area and the technology offered to TS
> users
> >is just not worth an institutional trader's time and energy--Other
> platforms are
> >available that are much more reliable and equipped with better technology.
> >
> >If Bill Cruz and others at Omega don't care about the individual trader
> because
> >they are dreaming of equipping large institutional trader with TS version
> 5,
> >it's no wonder they don't understand what we are asking for--They've lost
> all
> >touch with reality.
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >Tim Morge
> >
> >HarriMonk@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >> Mark Brown wrote:
> >> <<1. They are too busy answering the phones for sales and could give a
> shit
> >> less about us?>>
> >>
> >> No and yes . At $1,100+ per month for a license for Dow Jones Teletrac
> Trade
> >> Station I would think their thoughts are totally removed from the private
> >> trader altogether . It's obvious that Omega are totally orienting
> themselves
> >> towards the institutional IT buyer. DJT does all the marketing to the big
> >> investment banks - who could buy, say 50 licenses per site- and provides
> >> (among other things) full customer support and a y2k compliant server
> whilst
> >> Omega simply sit back and collect royalties. Probably more lucrative and
> >> hassle free than slaving away for y2k patches and upgrades for multiple
> data
> >> source using spare bedroom traders who read TASC.....
> >>
> >> Regds,
> >>
> >> Harri.
> >
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