RE: I would need some helping examples if anyone wants to share

["Bengtsson, Mats" <mats.bengtsson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for your reply. I solved most of the speed problem through buying
256 Mbyte memory to TS2000. With that amount of memory, TS2000 is faster
than superchart was for running through my triggers (which it did on an
older machine with less memory).

Running systems takes a long time (it is a big time difference between a
system and an indicator), and I would like to send it running a couple of
backtests on systems with different parameters without me sitting there
waiting to press some buttons to change the parameters. It is not so much
the speed as the wish not having to sit there and wait. Only way I can see
for doing that is setting the parameters through the programmable interface,
but it seems hard to start on that route without examples showing how to use
that interface.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marlowe Cassetti [mailto:marlowec@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 3:57 PM
To: Bengtsson, Mats; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: I would need some helping examples if anyone wants to share


Mats,

I'm having the same problem with TS2000.  I'm an End-of-Day trader and I
have a working system on SuperCharts 4 which I trade every day.  Every
evening I update trades by running the chart scanner feature in SC 4.  It
take a few minutes to scan through 40 futures contracts.  With TS2000 it
takes hours and hours.  The TS2000 help file says because it has to open the
workspaces and this takes a long time. Thus you should schedule the scan in
the middle of the night with the scheduler.  For me this is not a practical
solution.  Therefore I'm using TS2000 strictly for the PowerEditor to
develop trading systems and SC 4 to do all the work.

My opinion is that speeding up TS2000 code using C++ DLL code or other
tricks may not produce any speed improvements due to the fact that TS2000
takes such a long time to open a workspace.

I hope this helps  ....   Marlowe


----- Original Message -----
From: Bengtsson, Mats <mats.bengtsson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 7:24 AM
Subject: I would need some helping examples if anyone wants to share


> I have quite recently purchased Tradestation 2000i. I owned Supercharts
> before, and tradestation was a clear improvement (I am not running it with
> realtime data, only day to day).
>
> For my puposes, it works well as a tool for programming and backtesting,
but
> the weakness lies in running tests on many securities at once, or even
worse
> to optimise over them. I used to run these tests in a program called TAS,
> which allows you to both test and optimise parameters for a system over
for
> example all stocks you have data for. I would like to get back to that
> possibility using Tradestation, and have decided that the only way I can
do
> it is if I utilise their possibility to run TS functions from C++.
>
> I am not experienced in neither VC++ nor Windows programming, so I have a
> very tuff time getting anywhere from the example provided with the
> developers kit. I have been programming a lot though, so if I can only
find
> some examples of how to utilise TS functions from VC++, I think I can get
a
> grasp of it and get going on the route I am aiming for.
>
> Is there anyone out there who is willing to share some code that does
> utilise TS functionality from VC++?
>
> --- Mats ---
> Cap Gemini Sverige AB
> European company of the year 1999
>