|
PureBytes Links
Trading Reference Links
|
Thanks, Chris.
Wish I had your hardware. Doesn't look too good for a simple PII 300 w/ 64meg RAM & 6gig HD on
Win95. I recently installed a 2nd 6 gig HD & may use it exclusively for TS200i. I'd like to
believe I can still run 4.0 & TS2000i of the same machine. Possible? At least until I feel
safe w/ TS2000i.
Re the Universal Server: can it be used to feed TS2000i? Since Omega doesn't allow a feed from
Quote.com I'd really like to be able get around this limitation somehow (I have Adv GET &
Dynamic Trader, both of whom use QC).
Michael
Chris Baker wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mguess <mguess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: he96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <he96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: James H. Snowden <jsnowden@xxxxxxxx>; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 9:07 AM
> Subject: Re: Adding charts
>
> >Also, 4.0 was such a resource hog. We were promised TS2000i would co-exist w/ other
> >programs in a much more efficient manner. Is it?
>
> It depends. In my case with Dual PII's and two hard drives, I'm running TS 2000
> collecting all Future Options, all Futures and all Indices, and a few Nasdaq big-caps.
> However I have no historical data yet and it seems that could make a big difference. My
> configuration is NT SP 4 with Dual PII 233's and 256 Meg RAM. TS 2000 is on it's own
> hard drive, together with the NT Swap file. I'm also running another significant
> application on the same computer, but it uses my first hard drive - where NT is
> installed. In sum - with slow PII Dual processor's, two hard drives, and plenty of RAM,
> TS 2000 seems to run fine for Futures Traders. Stocks traders may be another issue -
> see below.
>
> Another question is how much disk space the Global Server requires for historical data, as
> the more hard drive space required, the slower the Global Server will run. TS 4 seemed
> to have quite a compact technique for historical data, but Global Server's use of Jet (a
> fast way to access ODBC) may be another matter.
>
> Here's some background on NT: NT disk access is much faster than Windows 98, but I found
> NT considerably more difficult to configure than Windows 98. NT also cannot run more
> than DirectX 2 or 3, while DirectX 5 and up are required for high-powered games.
>
> For stock traders who want to collect every tick for all stocks transmitted on your dat
> feed, I'm not sure TS 2000 is the way to go. You might want to look at the Universal
> Server: When I've run the UMDS, I can collect every tick for 57,000 stocks, futures, and
> indices - not counting 10,000 options. This seems to requires fewer resources that TS
> 2000 takes to collect just futures, indices and futures options.
>
> --- Chris
|