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I have been using Radar Screen on a 6,000 +/- data base of end of day
stocks. I alert for a couple of criteria functions I have developed and a
couple of ADX indicators, all on the same screen. I have a Pentium 350 MHz
with 295mg memory. I t cranks for about 5 minutes and I can then rank the
results. The machine/software works much better than the profitability of
indicators/alerts I'm using, oh well...This radar window really hogs the
machines resources and I only scan after the mkt. is closed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike G [mailto:mga@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 11:23 AM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RadarScreen Questions
Shortly after the release of 2000i, I tried using RadarScreen to scan large
numbers of stocks in real-time. I found it unsatisfactory for two reasons in
particular.
First, it was difficult to build a custom list, because the list building
utility would only add about 140 stocks at a time. I found a work-around
that I was able to use. Now with SP2, I think this problem is fixed but I'm
not sure.
Second, once I made a list including all Nasdaq stocks I found performance
to be too slow to be useful. For instance, the system would grind almost to
a halt if I tried to do such operations as sorting the list on the biggest
percentage gainers.
I have to admit I was only running it on a 350MHz machine with 192Meg of
Ram, and 8 Gigs of space, under Win98. My impression is that I should be
running under NT, and perhaps the machine needs more speed as well. If so, I
am amazed at the requirements for TS 2000i.
Since then I have not kept 2000i up and running.
I haven't seen much discussion concerning RadarScreen on this list, which
makes me think not many are using it.
Is anybody out there using RadarScreen satisfactorily? How many symbols are
you scanning?
Is it really worth running Win NT?
Private discussion welcomed. Thanks.
Mike Gossland
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