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----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Edwall <cedwall@xxxxxxxx>
To: <ami@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <omega-lise@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 1999 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: 2 Fatal Bugs That Renders TS 2000i Barely Usable - Re: CL_Best
Data Feed ...
> Re bug #1, I spoke with Tech Support and they said do the following: go
to
> chart format, select an intra-day time period, then select Volume on the
> button bars on the right, then go back and select daily. This will fix
the
> problem.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alan Mi <ami@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: omegalist <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 1999 5:10 PM
> Subject: 2 Fatal Bugs That Renders TS 2000i Barely Usable - Re: CL_Best
Data
> Feed ...
>
>
> > 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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