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Looks very good - but ..... will they be here in a year or two...
after spending $2000???????
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian McVicar" <icm63@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 11:01 AM
Subject: Tradelab software Please comment
> TradeLab found at http://www.tradelab.net/index.html
>
> WOW where was this when I wrote the cheque out to Omega for Ts2k
>
> With Ts.com, I think outfits like this will be very happy that Omega have
> made there move, which will
> justify more money to spent on developing there software.
>
> Have any of you got it , please pass comment on performance, whats is its
> support like, how do you find VB as a
> programming tool, are there any email lists for users .
> (if so please advise).
>
> Are there any other software packages out there that fit into the class
> (with programming language)
>
> 1) Tradestation
> 2) Tradelabs
> 3) Metastock
>
> Note : In the last 6 months I have learn't Vb6.0, and it is a breeze, the
> support on the internet from fellow Vb6.0 developers
> is free and very helpful in most cases. VB is going to get better via
> Microsoft, and will be better for traders than Easylanguage
> will ever be.
>
>
> FROM THE FAQ OF TRADELABS
> ************************************************************************
> Q. I am an owner of Pro Suite and Trade Station 4.0. I am sick of Omega
> Research's lack of support and commitment to there user. I also have many
> custom indicators in TS that I made and use, will these copy over to your
> program?
>
>
> A. TradeStation user programs are written in Easy Language. TradeLab user
> programs can be written in Visual Basic, Delphi, or C/C++. However, most
> users will use Visual Basic, because it is the easiest of those languages
to
> use and because it is the most popular programming language in the world
by
> a large margin.
>
> There is another important difference. TradeStation user "programs" are
not
> true programs. They are only functions. They are simpler, because they are
> only functions, but they have many programming limitations that do not
exist
> with real programs.
>
> Because of these differences, Easy Language programs cannot be used
directly
> in TradeLab. They must be converted. However, that is not as big an
obstacle
> it might seem, for two reasons:
>
>
> Easy Language is simplified Pascal. Visual Basic is a vastly improved and
> expanded version of the original BASIC. Pascal and BASIC have common
> ancestry. Because of that, there is considerable similarity between
command
> words and syntax in Easy Language and Visual Basic. The biggest difference
> is that anything that can be done in Easy Language can be done in Visual
> Basic, whereas, most things that can be done in Visual Basic cannot be
done
> in Easy Language.
>
> Because Visual Basic is a much more capable language, it would be
impossible
> to convert most Visual Basic programs to Easy Language. However,
conversions
> in the other direction are easy, because there is nothing that can be done
> in Easy Language that cannot be done in Visual Basic. What all that means
is
> if you want to learn Visual Basic and convert the programs yourself,
> conversion will be relatively easy. Of course, what seems easy to one
person
> may seem difficult to another, depending on their knowledge of it.
>
>
> If you don't want to learn Visual Basic and do the conversions yourself,
it
> should be easy to find someone to do it for you for a reasonable fee. I
> haven't discussed this with any of the beta testers, but some are
qualified
> in both languages and probably would be willing to convert programs for
> users who do not want to do it themselves.
>
>
>
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