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Maybe it is time for a consumer class action suit. Anyone know Ralph
Nader's email address? How about Morley Safer? Maybe a 60 minutes camera
crew at Cruz's palace would get their attention.
I've pretty much given up on Omega's products for the time being. I keep
watching the list in case there is any evidence that Omega is getting its
act together. Meanwhile, I'm still being charged for TS 4 monthly payment
installments. I've been trading without the dubious benefit of Omega for
serveral months now.
-uf
At 11:01 PM 1/16/00 +0100, you wrote:
>So far only, in three hour off line running, I have only been forced to
>restart the computer three times, and opened around 25 previously working
>workspaces that now report errors when trying to format the analysis. Lousy
>programmers they got, but even worse quality department. That said, what can
>I contribute with:
>
>* Execution takes longer in SP4 than SP2, but not too bad, around
>12-14 percent longer backtesting than before
>* If using exactly the same dates and exactly the same settings,
>indicator output are reproducable
>* Old multichart workcharts with indicators will all contain errors
>after installation. When doing format analysis you will get "master not
>found, IO error", but only in one of the charts, and it will only apply to
>one of the indicators. Question is which? Easy to test: Do format analysis,
>answer ok to all error messages, and then delete the indicators one by one.
>When you delete the faulty one, you will get no more error messages. As long
>as you delete the others, you will have to click ok to all error messages
>after any other indicator you delete. Since most of my charts are created
>from each other, I could quickly find what indicator was the one with the
>error message for most charts, deleted it, reinserted it, and resaved the
>workspace. Errors gone.
>
>Biggest disappointment: Pretty good oscillator clearly demonstrated to me
>that we get random results caused by too little precision in calculation.
>Running that one, at least with my rewrite of it, and using SP2, triggers
>for stocks that hovered around the three level moved a couple of bars forth
>and back depending on when calculation started. Have not tested, but
>probably is the same in SP4.
>
>Biggest annoyance: All bugs in every update. Except the "master IO error"
>bug above, we have a wide reapperance of the "some things are no longer
>drawn" bug that has been with us all the time. Many many indicators now only
>draw some things onto the workcharts. For example: The indicator is plotting
>ok, but the selllimit is not seen, and can not be made to reappear as far as
>I have managed so far. Delete the indicator and reinsert it makes it
>reappear again. Problem is: Is this true for some paintbars and showmes as
>well? Will I have to remove and reinsert all showmes and paintbars just to
>be sure they will be visible if they are activated? Probably..... Anybody
>know what button to press to get the missing plots visible again? Do the
>showmes miss to show as well?
>
>Trendlines: Now the trendlines take me even more work to draw than earlier,
>since they introduced new "features". Anyone now of a way to set up to
>buttons for Trendlines: One draws a resistance line with color cyan and
>calculation set to high, and one draws a supportline in red with calculation
>set to low?
>
>--- Mats ---
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