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Patrick,
Metastock runs w/BMI.
While running Metastock, you can also run BMI's market center, which has
quote screens, time and sales, auto options collection, and more - a very
nice RT system for one day only.
Theoretically, you could run Market Center with TS2k, but you would need a
super-computer.
I have played with MS with a symbol or two, but have not put it to the test
of real trading or many symbols. When I give up on TS2k, I plan to give
Metastock a shot on my alternate computer, while I wait for TS4 to melt into
Y2K.
One practical advantage of the MS/Market Center Combo is that the BMI Data
Manager only tracks the symbols your are watching, real time, as opposed to
the Omega Global Server tracking every symbol in your portfolio -- a huge
difference in computer resources required. The symbols you want to collect
daily data for, but rarely look at, are updated during off hours.
Choices are limited. The trader market for software, is not huge.
Ed
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick White [mailto:spy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 6:18 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: BMI Server Question & Upgrade Pricing & Metastock
>
>
> I'm still waiting / wondering if to upgrade or not. As April
> 30th draws near, I called Omega sales to see if the offer
> for upgrading at $500 was still good or not during May.
> Pedro didn't know - said they are still debating if/when to
> raise the price on the upgrade. Said they're planning to
> ship the new orders with the service pack update (planning
> on first of May so should be about June 20th). What kind of
> company doesn't update their pricing schedule more than one
> week in advance??? Any info on this would be helpful.
>
> Also, in TS 3.5, by disabling the mark contracts expired the
> bug below is avoided. Is this the extent of the TS 2000K bug
> for TS 3.5? If so, then both software (4.0 and 3.5) should
> work correctly, albeit TS 4.0 won't be able to auto do a
> morning update (EVER) until (if) a patch is installed. So I
> ask myself, why even worry about upgrading (downgrading) to
> TS 2000i when 3.5 is a beautiful product (except security
> block msg. that keeps coming up, 13K bar limitation 64k page
> & indicator limit etc.)?
>
> Metastock keeps sending me upgrade notices - their upgrade
> is only $199 for the RT server since I am a longtime RT user
> of the DOS program. Anyone know if their software works with
> BMI? Also, my big hang-up with MS is they apparently have no
> quote screen. How can you trade w/o a quote screen?
>
> Patrick White
>
> The solution? Disable the morning update and perform its
> functions manually.
>
> The server is adding 00 futures or options contracts on
> morning update one
> night (auto symbol addition for xx months out) and then
> marking them
> expired the next. This cycle will continue over and over and
> over until you
> disable the morning update.
>
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