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Probably takes only one good 32 bit programmer who knows how to implement
what Windows offers, and fix in a flash all the 2000i beta insults that
hired-for-cheap programmers created --during a time when management fell
out of love with analysis software, and salivated over what was going on
with the broker business during the NASDAQ boom of 1998-2000.
At 12:05 PM 8/1/2001, Jim Bronke wrote:
>One little ol' programmer?
>
>Jim Bronke
>Phoenix, AZ
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "M. Simms" <prosys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Mark Baze" <mark_baze@xxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: "Omega-List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:32 AM
>Subject: RE: Addendum: "New Orders" dialog box problem
>
>
> > Mark - nice workaround....
> > and note, be sure to mention this bug to that little programmer that Omega
> > hired
> > to fix TS2000i bugs.
> > He currently is reviewing line-by-line all estimated 1 million lines of
>code
> > in TS2000i.
> > Maybe he can find this one.
> > Maybe not.
> >
> > Anyone betting ?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mark Baze [mailto:mark_baze@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:59 AM
> > > To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Addendum: "New Orders" dialog box problem
> > >
> > >
> > > Regarding my previous post about only a single "New
> > > Orders" dialog box appearing even though the
> > > EasyLanguage code contains *both* a protective stop
> > > and a target limit order to be placed, as I'm watching
> > > now in realtime, I forgot that there is an even worse
> > > problem:
> > >
> > > When an entry order signal is generated, e.g., from a
> > > market order to buy at close, initially 3 dialog boxes
> > > appear, one saying place a Market Order, one saying
> > > you now have an Open Position, and one saying that
> > > your order has been Filled. The single protective
> > > stop dialog box that I was referring to earlier
> > > actually does not appear until the close of the
> > > *subsequent* bar. Further, *neither* the protective
> > > stop order nor the target limit order are sent to the
> > > Tracking Center until the close of that subsequent
> > > bar.
> > >
> > > Thus, for example, if one is working off of 15 min
> > > bars, it takes an additional 15 min after generation
> > > of the entry signal for the single dialog box with the
> > > stop order to appear and (worse) for the stop and
> > > limit orders to appear in the Tracking Center.
> > > Fifteen minutes is a lifetime in futures trading.
> > >
> > > As a workaround, I write into the code language to
> > > have the stop and limit values immediately displayed
> > > as text on the screen beside the entry bar.
> > >
> > > Is this what other people have to do as well or do I
> > > not have something set correctly so that the stop and
> > > limit information is sent immediately to the Tracking
> > > Center?
> > >
> > > Thanks again,
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
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