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-----Original Message-----
From: ted stampeen [mailto:tedco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 July 2000 20:43
To: BobR; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: TICK COUNT
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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