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I'm not laughing at all - since I'm more or less in your boat. Right now - I
have the following options. My SuperCharts 2.1 (isn't Y2K compliant - but it
does seems to work in the 21st century - although it breaks databases on or
about February 29, 2000). Metastock 6.52 (can't run any of my systems and the
link function with Excel doesn't work). Excel (works fine except for the
missing link with Metastock). A couple of homegrown DOS utilities which don't
do everything I need - but they'll continue to work. I could buy the buggy
current build of TS2000i which isn't (at present) compatible with my Y2K
compliant Metastock data. And there are always pencils and graphing paper (the
latter's starting to look pretty good <g>). Anyway - I'm going to stick around
here until I come up with a solution - so - if you have any bright ideas - let
me know. And if I come up with anything - I'll write about it here. Robyn
Marlowe Cassetti wrote:
> I have developed several systems in FORTRAN (in my early years) and then
> later in C++. I then discovered that I could bugger up SuperCharts 3.0 to
> code extensive systems in EasyLanguage. When the code got too large and too
> slow I migrated to writing the systems via a C++ DLL. In short, SuperCharts
> and TradeStation are good platforms for developing and testing sophisticated
> systems.
>
> However, as year 2000 looms closer I ponder which platform to switch to?
> The Omega products are really geared to the daytrader. This was evident a
> few years back when they stopped selling TS 4.0 EOD and forced you to buy
> the "real time version" at twice the price. Daytraders go broke big time,
> so they can't possibly miss a few thousand $ to purchase TS plus the
> claptrap of those expensive data "servers." Omega has these folks in a
> stranglehold and can squeeze them for all it is worth.
>
> Right now I'm looking seriously at several platforms including Excel.
> Before you laugh too loud, consider the market potential of developing a
> successful system on Excel. There are 10,000 times more PCs and Macs out
> there with Excel than there are TS2000 platforms. The market is immense.
>
> Marlowe
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