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As much as I would love to see such a build... I think
it makes absolutely no sense to Omega as a business
strategy... The "professionals" out there are the
minority, there are defenitely more people that do not
know what they are doing that are attracted by
gimmics, so why go after a smaller market, when they
can aim at a much bigger market with similar R&D
expenses...?
So you say it would make sense for them to double (or
more) their R&D force in order to go for a
small/limited-in-size market? let me just say it's
"un-american" to do such things... :-)
And as far as I am concerned, software wise the
important things on the list:
> be Y2K compliant
> allow unlimited bars on a chart
> allow unlimited code length
are addressed in y2k. Granted the program needs to
be quicker, AND we all need to get rid of those old
P200s (for trading purposes at least). And given my
approach, I don't need that extra second...
And the datafeed thing... we agree, they have only
Mickey Mouse feeds...
H
--- David Elden <eldenworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The problem is that Omega is not making a product
> for professional traders,
> they are making a product for consumer traders. Just
> like any market there
> are the professionals and the amateurs and Omega is
> marketing to the
> amateurs. Like you say, if they were smart they
> would have created a
> professional division and made a custom version that
> was a real trading
> platform.
>
> David
>
>
> You know, it's just a thought and I doubt it will
> ever happen, but I
> think it's not too late for Omega to do what they
> should have done in
> the first place.... write a version maybe called
> "Tradestation Classic."
>
> It would essentially be TS4 but would
> be Y2K compliant
> allow unlimited bars on a chart
> allow unlimited code length
> support double precision math
> work with the great new tick feeds such as
> quote.com and automatically
> update your tick data if you have a crash or
> whatever
> automatically update daily data from CSI
> have the code tweaked for SPEED
> be compiled as a 32 bit app for Win 95,98,NT
> lose the 'talking heads', etc and concentrate on a
> lean, mean,
> professional trading platform
>
> I'll bet most of the people on this list would pay
> for THAT upgrade.
> Will it happen? Naaaaaaahhhhhh, too logical.
>
> --
> Dennis
>
>
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