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gary and other el wonks (hey guys, i mean that positively :)) -- please
bear with me here. ok, i can collect futures symbols past Dec 99 by
disabling the morning update in ts4, no problem. however, i've got to
manually add symbols and delete the server logs, which is a minor
hassle, but i can live with that if it means my trading platform is
stable. i've been doing the post 99 symbol collection on bonds and
s&p's for 6 months now with no hangups, so it works alright.
here's the deal -- what will happen to ts4 charting and powereditor on
01/02/00 (globex session)? if my studies reference dates, will they go
kaka? what about studies that don't reference dates, are they kaka too,
even a simple ma? i know dennis h. ran a y2k test program in ts4
powereditor and it failed. does that mean all the studies will be
unuseable (not verified) past Dec 99? what about the server? i assumed
that if it could handle y2k symbols, then it could do the dates too.
but maybe that assumption is faulty.
i'm just trying to separate out the fact from fiction regarding y2k and
ts4. i'd like to keep ts4 too even with it's limitations. but ts2ki is
a sick joke as a professional trading platform.
TJ
--- Gary Fritz wrote:
> I'm a system trader, and I write my own systems.
>
> Of your list, I believe only 3 (WoW, MetaStock, and possibly
> NetTrader) provide the kind of system development and testing
> features supported by TS, and they have other problems that have been
>
> discussed elsewhere. (And there's also Ensign, which is a very
> worthy competitor but has some characteristics I don't care for.)
> They do not seem to be sufficiently "better" than TS4 to justify
> chucking thousands of lines of EL code.
>
> The rest, as far as I know, are canned-indicator charting packages
> and black-box systems.
>
> So no, none of them meet my needs. But unless TS2K becomes a WHOLE
> lot more reliable than it is so far (AND Omega starts treating its
> customers a whole lot better), TS2K will never darken my hard drive.
>
> I would turn off the morning update and continue using TS4, without
> Y2K fix, even with all its misfeatures and limitations, before I'd
> waste time and money on TS2K.
>
> More likely I'd just write my own trading platform and tell all the
> vendors to shove off.
>
> Gary
>
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