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Well I spend most of my coding in the area of trade placement and money
management....using simple statistics and many, many pattern rules. I've
found that to be more valuable than insuring my regression correlation
coefficients are "off" by 0.1.
You guys who need rocket-science precision just need to use the DLL
interface.
That way, we don't get "hit" with more overhead in testing and optimizing
"simple systems", and you get the requisite precision. Doesn't that make
sense ?
Now let's quit arguing and get cracking building those DLLs !!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Fulks [mailto:bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 6:49 PM
> To: M. Simms
> Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Warning about accuracy of Array functions
> inTS2000i-CPU/memory hits
>
>
> At 12:00 PM -0500 3/20/00, M. Simms wrote:
>
> >Totally agree that computers should be infallible and software should
> >be "perfect".... but when huge performance trade-offs exist as would
> >be the case of double floating point, I'd rather be fast rather than
> >"perfect".
>
> I am glad you are not managing my money...
>
> >You wouldn't want to experience the combination of BOTH a CPU "hit"
> >and a "memory" hit if Omega goes immediately to doubles......everyone
> >would need 512k RAM and the new gigahertz CPUs.
>
> And they could pay for it with what they would lose in a few
> minutes on inaccurate calculations..
>
> >Also, I can't understand why everyone is trading today based on data
> >20,000 bars ago anyway ? Wow - isn't that stuff ancient history ?
>
> The TradeStation function is coded to calculate the accurate
> value on the first bar and just adds and subtracts changes since
> then. The value 20,000 bars ago was correct. But along the way,
> the errors accumulate.
>
> Bob Fulks
>
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