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Seen it mentioned a number of time that the hard disk saves you a lot of
time in backtesting.
Has anyone tried placing all stock data on a RAM drive and does that improve
performance even further? (Using Metastock adn having 256MByte of RAM, the
RAMDrive would in my case need something similar to 50MByte to hold all data
during the backtest).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M. Simms [mailto:prosys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 11:58 PM
> To: Larry Wright; MMclaug323@xxxxxxx
> Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Adding TS 2000i
>
>
> Totally agree if this is for REALTIME trading........
>
> Together with other software running at the same time (over
> 10 services in
> the bottom bar !)
> TS2000i SP3 runs large backtests fine under Win98.....PII/450
> + 256mb ram +
> UDMA hard drive.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Larry Wright [mailto:lwright@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 3:06 PM
> > To: MMclaug323@xxxxxxx
> > Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Adding TS 2000i
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 MMclaug323@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone had any problems putting TS 2000i on the
> > same computer as
> > > TS 4? Omega says I just install 2000i, and it goes into my
> > Program files,
> > > instead of the Omega Research files. Then I can import my data.
> > I wonder how
> > > do I get my indicators into 2000i? Any advice would be
> > appreciated, Mike
> >
> > If you value stability, my advice would be to NEVER put
> anything else on a
> > computer running TS. Get 2 comps, 2 network cards, and
> transfer files that
> > way. Works well - that is, the 2 comps work very well, TS4
> is rather good
> > if you don't do develpment while in real time, and TS100
> can read the data
> > across the network.
> >
> > BUT - TS100 crashes often even when off-line (for example,
> my TS100 has
> > crashed 4 times already today while trying to open only 2 small
> > workspaces; rebooted NT4, too, just to make sure). It would
> not seem wise
> > to run TS100 with anything else.
> >
> > Good luck :-)...
> >
> > Larry
> >
>
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