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Well said, couldn't agree more.
In addition it is best to make a totally new "clean" NT installation with
newest SP on a newly formatted harddisk, **don't** try to install
TS2k into an old TS4.0 setup.
After the new installation is completed you can easily export all your studies
in TS4.0 at once and import to TS2k, data as well. During the import process
there will be some warnings and a few studies won't verify because of changes
in build-in functions, you can correct these minor issues later. Systems will be
converted to signals, has worked without failure for me. The only thing you have
to do then manually is to rebuild your workspaces, but the reward for doing so is
a trading environment as stable *as possible* with TS2k.
Regards Martin
> Dear List,
>
> I find it sort of funny that there is so much discussion about the NT vs 98
> choice. If you are trying to run TS2K on something less than the above
> configuration, you are most likely going to have problems (maybe big
> problems). The computer mentioned above can be had for less than $700
> dollars. NT sells for less than $200. For less than a grand you can have all
> the hardware you need to be a trader (maybe a bad trader, but a trader) add
> a data feed and you are good to go. What other business could you get
> involved in where the cost of equipment is so low. 5 years ago a setup like
> the one mentioned above would have been well over 10K if you could have even
> purchased something that advanced.
>
> I have been using NT on a very similar computer for over 6 months now, and
> will also vouch for the fact that ts2000 is stable under NT. You can crash
> now and then. The tradestation part of the program crashes every couple
> weeks, but if you leave Word running 24/7, it will probably crash once and a
> while too. With NT these TS2000 crashes are non events. Global server is
> very solid and usually I just stop the charting part of the program and
> restart that, ( this takes a few seconds, not several minutes as with
> WIn98). There is no need to reboot the whole computer with NT. You dont lose
> data as long as the Global server keeps running. This is NOT POSSIBLE under
> Win98. You have to reboot the entire machine with 98, (Global Server
> included). I have posted this to the list many times, WIN98 and TS2000 do
> not work well together, some would argue they dont work at all. I am of that
> opinion. NT isnt any harder than Win 98 either to install or learn. There
> may be video driver problems with some cards but I have a Diamond and ATI
> card and both work fine.
>
> One trade in the S&P or the bonds could easily pay for the computer
> mentioned above. If you think of yourself as a professional trader, get a
> professional OS.
>
> Dale
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