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Not sure how to describe it but I think it was one of the reasons Bickly
develop TL.
Also Mark Brown goes into some detail about it on his website.
Robert
Clint Chastain wrote:
>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
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>-----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
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>>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?
>>>>
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>> 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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