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I truly hope you are correct about Omega's direction.
I for one have given up TS for q-chart in order to avoid the continuous data
maintenance problems. Between the late night downloading, intraday gaps due
to computer crashes/ISP problems, I just got fed up with Prosuite.
Also, if an active stock is not in the GS portfolio, there is no quick way
to analyze it intraday.
Q-charts solves all these problems, with the limitation of no EasyLanguage
indicators/systems.
What a relief it was to make the change, despite my investment in MESA,
Meyers, Jan Aarps, Neuroshell Trader, etc., in addition to TS /PS itself.
No more late nights downloading, and no more blown days due to data gaps.
The data-on-demand concept could bring me back (if the program itself also
proves stable).
This also depends on Omega not financially screwing those of us who have
already paid for two or more generations of deficient products. In my case
I am still paying monthly for a Prosuite upgrade that I am not even using.
Dave Johnson
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Mi <ami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: omegalist <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, December 24, 1999 1:46 AM
Subject: TradeStation.com? Let's Speculate
>When they made the acquisition and the announcement, no one
>really knew what this baby is going to really look like, other
>than we knew that they were moving toward net-centricness. After
>simmering for a month or two, we seem to be able to see better.
>Look at all the troubles, clumsiness and their costs involved in
>TradeStation. Data.
>
>I was their user when WOW rolled out FDCN and the data on-demand
>concept was really neat. S/W updates too - whenever you bring up
>WOW, it checks to see if there is a newer update and update it
>when needed - care free for users.
>
>HistoryBank daily update service is really looking like an
>interim solution for holding market share. It will be a passé
>sooner than most believe. With fast Internet connection wide
>spreading, it will take shorter time for TS to get the requested
>data for charting from a net centric data server than from GS on
>your own PC. So the next generation is going to be three lean and
>mean applications TS/OS/RS without GS. TAL RealNet is already
>doing that (http://www.taltrade.com/). Quote.com's QCharts is so
>successful in doing that. During the transition process, there
>will be two camps of TS users. We the listers here are all
>belonging to the dinosaur camp, at least initially. It's going to
>be like QCharts+EasyLanguage.
>
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