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Re: Best alternative to TradeStation 2000i?


  • To: Mark Brown <sanders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Best alternative to TradeStation 2000i?
  • From: Howard Jackson <hrjf4@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:48:20 -0400 (EDT)

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You don't know how much I want to believe you, but you
are sounding more and more like Bob Brickey when he
started with TradeLab...

--- Mark Brown <markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >From: Larry
> 
> >I would prefer VB or Pascal if debugging facilities
> were better than EL.
> 
> Larry, no matter what anyone thinks from the French
> side of town.  He who
> has VB programming (whether its TraderWare or
> TradeLab) capability will win
> the market software race.  The debug capabilities of
> VB are second to none,
> VB runs super fast as compared Sleazy languages.  VB
> gives the user the
> confidence that just because a software company goes
> out of business or
> doesn't keep up their upgrades, his hard work will
> not just go away!   VB
> code is here to stay, its transportable and
> reusable.  It is not as easy or
> compact to code as Sleazy languages are but as a
> user gains more experience
> and requires more complicated studies he will
> realize that the investment of
> learning VB will pay off.  VB code will become as
> common as cut and paste as
> more and more users produce more and more code.  We
> at TraderWare plan to
> play a big role in teaching of coding in VB.  We
> will start out by providing
> simple step by step lessons,  and tons of free code
> as examples.  This is
> another problem with Sleazy language.  These people
> don't want the public to
> know how to use their code, without paying for the
> information that should
> have been provided for free in the first place.  If
> Omega had provided early
> on tons of free code things would have been better
> for everyone.  Well its a
> lesson I learned and will put to practice giving
> away all the code I can and
> as some know I can write zillions of good pieces of
> good code that are many
> times better that what you pay for.  This comes from
> being a trader and a
> key part of a very successful money management
> company.  Our entire project
> thus far was financed by trading profits, can others
> say the same?  Can
> others even claim that they use their own product
> for its intended purpose?
> No! I don't think so.  For if they did, then many of
> the problems we all
> have would have been corrected before we received
> the final shipping
> version!  How can Bill Cruz or some third party
> Pollution Provider expect us
> all to use a product that they themselves do not use
> to make a living with?
> My only singular income is from trading the markets
> not selling software.
> 
> mb
> 
>