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If there were enough people around who actually did more than open a chart
and say, "wow," I'm sure the market would be large enough to justify all
the hard work and money required to create a masterpiece that would blow
Omega and Equis away. Unfortunately, there are too many more people who
are completely satisfied with a few charts, level II, dusty old canned
systems and indicators (because it's all new to them), and fast order entry.
At 06:04 AM 8/30/2001, tradejack@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>the problem as i see it is one of cost and time. on one hand, you got one
>dude working 12 years on a system tester and it doesn't even have charting
>yet (or ever will), and on the other a sw guy arm waves how it won't be
>too difficult to build a ts replacement using a non-internet dead dog like
>m3 as a server! give me a f-in break guys!!! if this stuff was easily to
>develop, we would be chin deep in trading software with ts capabilities.
>
>what u want costs money...and takes a shitload of time...period. look at
>neoticker. slowly but surely it's coming along. and as it's functionality
>increases, so will its price, as it should. ppl who want this stuff bitch
>bout how much data costs, how high commish are, yada yada and on and on. r
>u willing to pay 5K for ts clone with portfolio testing and opt? probably
>what it would cost per unit being that it's an small niche market. hell,
>most folks won't pay more than 500 bucks for a used copy ts4 these days!!!
>
>so what to do? probably use ts til the day it dies....or i do ;)
>
>TJ
>
>hey, where's my bud fuzzy pete? surely he knows a thing or two bout what's
>going on at omega/trad these days :)))
>
>gary fritz wrote:
> >BTW a tool already exists that does most or all this -- Trading
> >Recipes. But it has no charting module and (so far) no intraday or
> >realtime abilities. I want to be able to SEE my system as I develop
> >it, AND execute it on the same platform, the way I can in TS.
> >Basically I want TS with portfolio capabilities.
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