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Bob Fulks has a couple of expositions that he posts in response to specific
questions: one on Optimal f and another on various methods of creating
continuous contracts. I thought something like this would be useful for
some of the things that pop up from time to time to time to time to time. I
think the best approach would be a separate FAQ on each. The topics that
seem to recur are:
Best Brokers for various trading vehicles
Best Data vendors
Tick Counts (information collected should include CPU speed, memory, OS,
port config if applicable, number of symbols collected by system, software
and version, connection type if applicable)
Sources of Historical Tick/EOD Data
Firewalls
Best Laptops
Easy Language books
Feasibility of Class Action Lawsuit Against Omega Research
Is Bill Cruz Satan or Spawn of Satan?
Ok, maybe that last one is just me thinking aloud... Any others?
On the topics of best brokers and best data vendors, perhaps the best way to
organize something like that would be a collection of anonymous annecdotes
from customers. This is one of the things that I find most valuable, but we
wouldn't want the list to be a list of one-time complaints. Perhaps for
brokers, the submissions should be from people who have a year or more of
experience in the vehicle in question.
Kent
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred <srqblue@xxxxxxxx>
To: Dennis Holverstott <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, July 08, 2000 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: Same old same old
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 16:05:55 -0700, Dennis Holverstott
<dennis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>how many time must people ask the same old questions over and
>over and over?
Even though delivered with a whiff of rhetorical sarcasm, it is indeed
a worthy question.
When recently a question was asked about tick counts I referred the
thread to Bobr who I knew had gotten quite deeply into the subject
and posted the results back in April. I participated in gathering
comparative results. He was generous in his reiteration of his work.
I share Dennis's desire to have NEW trading and coding questions and
NEW answers, but I also know that this freshness comes from new
members with new trading ideas. Consequently I welcome them to our
corner of cyberspace.
I even liked the whining about the new TS2000i. When it slowed down I
knew I could convert, and thanks to a couple of guys here whose
solutions/workarounds about upgrading I heeded my installation and use
has been without painful problems.
But the re-occuring "same old" could be solved by a FAQ. I would be
willing to retain, update/edit and post it on a monthly basis, or send
it privately to individuals who were in obvious need of it--IF one
existed.
Dennis and BobR if you would like to start one with some seeds of
contribution I will keep it, post it and add to it as others
contribute.
Fred, FAQ Editor-nominee
"Success is the only test of genius" -R.Adm Daniel Gallery 1901-1977
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