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--- Ian McVicar <icm63@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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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