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Interesting post. How does one become a beta tester? I'm trying to trade
stocks for a living. I've now got a P-233 with 256 MB of RAM and an 8 GB
hard drive with about 5 G free. Would I get a significant performance
improvement by upgrading to an AMD P6 400 processor? The only other
upgrade avenues I have left on my current motherboard is to upgrade to 384
MB of RAM and moving to Windows NT from Win98.
At 03:39 PM 5/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
>That has always been my contention,about tick counts before, however I
>know the
>ticks that I am receiving are or seem to be up to speed with the exchanges
>that
>I have actually called on the phone and done counts with.( As I mostly
>trade OEX
>options I watch them the hardest, and the CBOE was kind enough to oblige).
>
>I also have done counts with DTN and have the same counts and times as their
>Data Integrity Dept.. This means at least to me that my Hardware and Software,
>are keeping up with the DTN Box. That is as fast as I can run without being on
>the floor, using DTN.
>
>I can now call the Quotes off my RadarScreen and be with the DTN Data Dept.,
>allowing for transmission times, which is in the Milliseconds, and am now far
>faster than the Internet feeds that I have been running side by side.
>
>This is dealing with Stocks, Stock Options, Indices, Index Options. I
>collect a
>few futures delayed as DTN gives us the delayed quotes free, if we don't
>subscribe to the exchange.
>
>I was missing a lot of ticks at least 1/3, for some symbols before installing
>the High Speed Port, due to the buffers on a standard URT port. In fact some
>symbols would not even up date for several minutes after the open due being
>trapped in the buffers. The GlobalServer allows all the Quotes to pass off the
>DTN Box, as do several other servers. The flow of data is tremendous.
>There are
>over 132,000 option symbols alone. Try that on the Internet.
>
>I have carefully checked all 2106 symbols that I collect and cannot find any
>hang ups at the open any longer. I checked them once, it took all night.
>
>I am not a employee of Omega, or Solution Provide but I am a Beta Tester, and
>have run ProSuite longer than most on the list and have had SP-2 for more
>than a
>month now, in testing. I don't ever say anything much promotional, I am just
>relating my experiences. I try not to say anything about the Beta releases as
>that would be a violation of nondisclosure agreements. In fact I bet
>TraderWare
>will have similar agreements.
>
>I have run BMI, Signal, Signal-On-Line, PC-Quotes, DTN Real Time, DTN IQ. and
>chose the one that suits my needs and that I feel confident using. I have also
>tried WOW, and MetaStock, they were both returned.
>
>I do trade full time for a living, mostly OEX options, and a handful of
>stocks.
>
>I have tried to provide assistance to those that ask for it with 2000i, mostly
>privately this is the Omega List. I have gotten most of the ideas for the
>systems that I use from this and the Code List. If I was a detractor then all
>would be fine with some. ProSuite is not perfect, Ver4 was not perfect,
>Windows
>is not perfect, NT has problems, IBM hardware has problems, Gatways Crash
>sometimes, Is TraderWare going to be perfect? Lets discuss Internet
>congestion
>lets run tracert to one of the data servers all day, and test the packets
>dropped and return speeds. In fact I have a program that will do just that.
>
>If someone splits a BMI box and feeds two machines and one is a few seconds
>slower, means nothing, except some get to say, see 2000i doesn't work
>never mind
>the implications of transmission across the splitter, and how those Interrupts
>work and its impact on the software.
>
>I was slow running DTN and tracked the problem down to the Serial Port Speed,
>try running hyper terminal during the market and watch the Overflows on
>the DTN
>Box and the Overrun errors on the computer side.
>
>
>
>
>____________________Reply Separator____________________
>Subject: Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: PS2k SP2 Update
>Author: Mark Brown
>Date: 5/21/99 12:26 PM
>
> > WELL WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR A TICK COUNT AT THE SAME TIME.
> >
> > In fact publish some tick counts so we can all compare.
>
>boy oh boy here we go " ups bass boat from hell where are you"? what's the
>use in comparing tick counts, you fist have to receive ticks! hey, myself
>and some others have figured out you must either be am ex omega employee or
>affiliated with them some how? are you a pollution provider? na! guess
>not you'd be heading for wally world about now.
>
>ps when we get tired of comparing tick counts we can talk about neural nets.
Ullrich Fischer
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