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I'm using a P223MMX dedicated to QFeed + DynaStore + TS4 for nothing but INDU,
TICK, ES, & SP, and I can't tell any difference in its performance from when I
use the same set-up with a P3/500.
ted stampeen wrote:
> okay, this great, but now what if a person like myself is just interested
> in collecting tick data for say the e-mini, bonds, and a few daily symbols.
>
> would this setup be an overkill for my needs? because from the sounds of it
> , I'm in the stone-age .
> using a 366 celeron,128 mb, 6gig, TS4.0, 16550 uart serial port ,win98.
>
> this whole setup is new to me, as I have been away for awhile, and am
> trying to get back in the game again, hence my going with DBC, (which I
> cancelled today) thanks again everybody.
> so I haven't traded real-time with it yet so I cant comment on its
> performance.
>
> all recommendations would be greatly appreciated, as I would like to be as
> prepared as possible and concentrate on trading and not doubting my setup.
>
> a million thanks , goodtrading / Ted
>
> > Haven't got much new to add on the topic of tick counts except that
> Cynthia
> > Kase contends that tick bar charts give you a 15% advantage in timing over
> > time bar charts everything else equal. I stopped making counts when it
> > became obvious that others had gone the same route and came to the same
> > conclusions. Whether it was in Texas, Canada, Florida, Massachussets, the
> > path was similar. Drop BMI. Don't use ProSuite with the BMI Data Manager.
> > Dedicate a computer for data acquisition. Make that one with a fast
> > cpu(faster the better, a dual 600EBMhz is equivalent to a 1.5gighz),
> plenty
> > of memory(256 or 512meg) so disk swaps are not necessary, or if they are
> use
> > a fixed swap file size to keep windows from fragmenting the rest of the
> > drive and locate it to the outer edge of the drive, use scuzzies or
> udma66,
> > go to windows2000, partition it with system and applications in different
> > partitions, use a larger buffered serial port such as TE920, or a USB
> port.
> > One surprising result was that esignal via dsl modem gave similar emini
> > counts as dtn satellite(115MHz to 400MHz), that was on a dual cpu with
> > scuzzies. A recent test using W2000 and a TE920 port(64byte buffer) gave
> > same results as W2000 on a standard serial port(16 byte buffer) both
> running
> > ProSuite. That adds to what DTN Chameleon manual said about W98 not
> > servicing the serial ports as well as W95. Looks like w2000 corrected
> that.
> > Wonder how Millenium Edition will compare. I had initially focussed on
> the
> > emini as a test for tick counts until I discovered that stocks like CSCO
> and
> > MSFT had orders of magnitudes more ticks and greater percentage losses on
> > BMI and I suspect DBC satellite also but have no proof of it for DBC sat.
> > That was when the decision to switch rather than fight was easy to make.
> > Once you start getting all or nearly all the ticks the buy/sell signals
> > become clearer and your confidence in trading should improve.
> >
> > Bob
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