Re: What's the deal with TradeLab?

[Don C]

I have to disagree with this idea.  Converting (i.e. re-writing) one's
own
indicators should be a straightforward and deterministic process.  What
I don't 
like about TS is that every once in a while (even after more than three
years)
TS still does something anomalous or stupid.  Like the DAT file.  It's
huge, 
but it's impossible to reduce it.  You can COPYOUT and PASTEIN, but I
always get
lots of CTREE errors.   For some unknown reason I can't collect data for
QQQ.
I get quotes, but no data.  I rarely use the builtin functions because
so many 
have been shown to have serious mathematical defects.  I am not
interested in 
debugging more Omega code.

I am awaiting the verdict on TradeLAb.  For a stable, manageable server
I will 
gladly rewrite all my indicators.  I need to learn Visual Basic
anyway:-)

donc

>Subject:         Re: What's the deal with TradeLab?
>  Date:         Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:39:05 -0500
>  From:         "Jack Higgins" 
>    To:         "Cash" , 
.
>I have been following tradelab on and off for the last six months. The
>company made a decision awhile ago to stop promoting tradelab until it
>actually was a product for sale. Apparently there was so much interest that
>the company was overwhelmed in answering daily questions about it and could
>not make headway in finalizing the product. The big guns of the company
>dropped off the tradelab list for the same reason - to work on the product
>instead of talking about it. Things were very quiet for awhile.
>
>Tradelab is currently in beta testing. They took the approach of having beta
>testers pay them for the privilage of testing the product. There was a bit
>of a stink about that, but they must have garnered enough people to proceed.
>In hindsite, I can say that at least they were being very honest in telling
>these first users that they were beta testers. Unlike many other vendors who
>release a product and wait for the initial customers to tell them what the
>problems are - and I am not picking on Omega here because this seems to be
>the norm in the software industry - and then charge for the upgrades that
>fix these problems.
>
>If tradelab comes out as the product promised it should give TS a run for
>the money, but only if they include the ela transfer module as part of the
>initial package. Personally, I just can not see people abandoning all the
>work in custom indicators and systems that they have invested in TS - no
>matter how ticked off they with Omega. I also do not anticipate in seeing
>tradelab hit the market until it is a fully workable product - from what I
>have seen these guys learn from other peoples mistakes.
>
>Jack