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Happy Easter Doug!
Given your experience, would you please comment on my earlier posting
(below) about the speed difference between TS2000 and TS4? I note that your
hardware is a tad closer to a Cray than mine. Is that what I need to make
TS2000 usable? I really WANT it to work but it is way too slow. I expected
it to be faster than the 16 bit TS4. OR Support has not been helpful (yet).
BTW, my tests were on 1-tick charts with no compression and under identical
conditions. I have confirmed that TS2000 refers to calendar days when
loading chart data.
And I have uninstalled Office2000, reinstated system files and reinstalled
TS2000 several times without noticable improvement. If I remove ALL startup
programs using System Information, my test time drops from 4 minutes to 2
minutes. But even that is twice as long as TS4 takes with everything
loaded.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Kevin Hewitt
Brisbane Australia
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Has anyone compared the speed of TS2000 with TS4?
I just did an 11 test optimisation of a simple system on the same 8 trading
days of 24 hour tick data and it took 60 seconds on TS4 and 4 minutes(!) on
TS2000.
My machine is an AMD K2-300 with 128mb RAM and Windows 98. The system was
freshly transferred to TS2000 and the system was automatically built. I
changed nothing but it showed 25% more trades and lower profit than on TS4.
I ran both tests with only one version loaded at a time and the Servers
offline.
I had 8 days of data in TS4 but needed to load 11 days in TS2000 to get the
same date range - does TS2000 count calendar days while TS4 counts days of
data?
Even so, the speed of TS2000 is extremely disappointing. Everything seems
to run like molasses compared to TS4.
BTW, I have the MS-Office 2000 beta loaded. I moved all the OBDC files in
windows/system to a save folder before re-installing TS2000 and it worked.
I then had to copy a few of them back to get TS4 to work again.
Anyone else unhappy with relative speed?
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Forman <doug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, 01 April, 1999 5:16 PM
Subject: TS2000i raves and rants
> I've been reading the endless griping about TS2000. It's interesting
stuff,
> but I just can't relate.
>
> I've been using TS since version 3.x and was a beta tester for 4.x. I use
> TradeStation because Omega has developed a product without peer. It
doesn't
> mean that I think either TS or Omega are "perfect" (after four years with
> them, are you kidding!?!).
>
> Here's my experience with TS2k... my first attempt at installation did
not
> work (later discovered that it was a conflict with MS Office 2000 beta I
had
> installed, not Omega's fault). Discovered the conflict myself, although I
> later found it documented, with a fix, in Omega's Web Site knowledge base.
>
> Since then, it's just been running... a small nuisance problem with
> printing (the same chart prints with truncated info when changed from
> portrait to landscape) but all in all, it just works. My platform is
> Win98/500mhzP3/256mbRAM/10gbHD. I like the new feature of being able to
> offset the right side of the chart window. Also, I think the decision to
> use Signal/BMI's own data server was a stroke of genius. And I'm majorly
> appreciative of having a true 32-bit version.
>
> I've only contacted Omega once since installing... with an EasyLanguage
> question regarding plotting in that new offset area I described above. I
> entered the question on their EasyLanguage support form on their web site.
> Within an hour, I had a detailed and accurate answer to my question. Yes,
I
> am used to waiting days for answers from Omega, and yes, it blew me
away...
> but it happened... just a few days ago.
>
> So, there's one positive story for ya all... I'm happy. And, before you
> ask, I am in no way related to Omega or anyone there... just a customer
who
> enjoys having a product like TS to use... not sure what I could replace it
> with for it's sheer breadth of functionality... I'll tolerate the patch
> kits and bumpy ride for a trading toolkit like no other...
>
> Cheers :-)
>
> Doug
>
> -----
> Doug Forman, MCSE (doug@xxxxxxxxxxx)
> Incline Systems, Inc. - Vancouver, WA
>
>
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