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Hi Rick:
I have fooled with TradeStation's email signals for about 2 weeks now. Here
is my experience so far:
Earlier this month I discovered that my cell phone was capable of receiving
emails. So, I enabled the email functions and chart windows in TS2k and set
it up to email my cell phone with system trading signals.
Big mistake: First few days were a disaster - the program would attempt to
send dozens emails all at once - you know how rapidly those "market
conditions have changed" pop-up windows can proliferate all of a sudden.
Anyway, the sudden mass of outbound emails in a computer that was already
starved for resources because of TS2k proved too much. The whole thing would
crash every 20 - 30 minutes (requiring a cold reboot) and my cell phone
wouldn't shut up. Total mess.
New, enlightened, approach: Now I visually check the "active orders" window
in the STCC periodically. I use the information from there to manually set
alerts in a separate quote window. I then enable email alerts in that quote
window.
So far, this new approach seems to be working much better. No more crash and
re-booting in the middle of the day. And my cell phone now only beeps a few
times a day - only when its important.
In my casual observations, I'd guess that the time delay between the
triggering of an alert and the beeping of my cell phone is long about 2 - 10
seconds
BTW: WinBeep is pretty-much useless with TS2k if you have an internet based
datafeed - unless you have a second modem, second phone line, and lots of
free system resources.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Pereira" <rick1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "omega-list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 10:31 PM
Subject: E Mail Notification
> Has anyone had any luck getting the email notification to work with
> regards to emailing trading signals with Trade Station 2000?
> Thanks
>
> BTW. We are open to the pubic for the month of January.
>
> Rick Pereira
> OEX Trader Ltd.
> http://www.oextrader.com/
>
>
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