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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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