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I am a new member of omega-digest, reading the digests backward. Ignore
this message if this is duplicate information.
Bug #1: Volume field being 0 except for the last 30 days or so on daily
chart. The data in GS is okay, just TS does not get it right. Stop using
any study that references Volume field for daily chart. The good news is
that I can still use daily scanning that references a 10 day average of
volume on the LastBarOnChart, thus the word "barely" vs "completely".
Bug#2: For non-time-based bar charts (volume bars and tick bars charts),
the 0-minus ticks (a tick that is the same as previous tick but the
first one on the "platform" was a down tick) are counted toward plus
ticks when they should be counted toward downticks. Stop using any study
that references UpTicks or DownTicks. Note that if it references only
Volume(Tick) which is the sum of the two, it is okay. 1 tick chart is
not affected by this bug; only you have to compare with the previous
tick price to do your own up/down tick counts. You just have to build
everything from 1 tick chart. But hey, at least you can load prices into
a 1 tick chart, bearing in mind that you would exceed the limits on most
hot stocks with TS4.
YOU WOULD LOSE MONEY OTHERWISE!!!
OR are well aware of these bugs and the techsupport says that they are
releasing SP2 that address these issues, among other things, at the end
of this month.
Well, there is the third major defect: GS takes 10+ minutes to
initialize, stressing out your hard drive with heavy disk activities.
Techsopport told me that this has to do with the improper way data are
stored and is to be addressed in SP2.
My 15 years of software development experience tells me that 2000i is
released when the development is apparently not finished. These major
failures should be picked up by the most basic testing. It is not
overstating that the problem has reached disaster level by releasing
this version as it is now. I can detect the tone from techsupport that
they are force to cut software when the technical people are not feeling
ready.
Until SP2 at the very least, we are all in the training camp vs. the
real battle field with TS 2000i.
Alan
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