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I'm sorry to ask this, but at the risk of boring y'all to tears, could
someone please explain what a bouncing tick is?
Clint
-----Original Message-----
From: DStan34930@xxxxxxx <DStan34930@xxxxxxx>
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 12:55 PM
Subject: BouncingTicks_was get this
><<
>When he booted up this morning, there it was. Sort of late to get a
>trade done when the tradable had already moved 8 points (in your favor)
from
>your entry points, isn't it. Makes you feel warm and fuzzy about
>TradeStation, doesn't it?
>>>
>
> When you booted up this morning, you had a fake trade based on the fake
>storage of data known as bouncing ticks.
> Your realtime results were accurate based on real data. Nothing.
> So you didn't actually lose a trade between yesterday and today.
> Where you actually lost the trade was when you developed the rules
>for your system based on the falsely-stored data.
> Hypothetically, had the data been stored correctly by TS, your system
>developement may have allowed for the proper adjustment to catch the
>trade in realtime. So you can still blame it on bouncing ticks.
>
>dbs
>
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