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It might well be horrible, I have not used it, but normally there are pluses
and minuses. Where are the minuses and where are the pluses? Just curious,
always good to know about alternatives...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean DiCarlo [mailto:junkmayl@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: den 31 augusti 2001 07:54
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: No more 2000i in the US and NeoTicker
>
>
> there is a program that uses q-charts data for something
> similar to radarscreen. It is called ravenquote. If you think
> TS2ki is bad, you ain't seen nothing yet, ravenquote is horrible.
>
> I am glad Qcharts data works so well for you, I had an
> experience to the contrary when I tried their data.
>
> VBA is more than just "a little slower" than C++. If it
> wasn't, nobody would program in C++.
>
> Deano
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Pierson [mailto:maxpi_44@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:02 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: No more 2000i in the US and NeoTicker
>
>
> I just got my copy of TS2Ki Platinum a few weeks ago,
> really glad I did not pay retail, bought it used from
> a friend. Yes I don't get "customer no-service" and so
> far I have not needed it. The charting is so hokey and
> hard to use compared to qcharts, the backtesting can't
> seem to be done over a long period of time if your
> system uses daily and intraday bars [in fairness this
> may be something I don't understand how to do or a
> problem with using ASCII data], can backtest and
> optimize only one issue at a time, and my computer
> never locked up before installing it but it now does,
> frequently. For what I paid for it, it is fine, just a giant
> stock trading tutorial, it will carry me forward to the next
> goal of having the radarscreen that will alert me when a
> trade is indicated and basically since my recent switch from
> using free websites to develope trading systems, to TS2Ki I
> have been on "fast forward" as far as system performance and
> knowledge. Worth every penny but not going to be my last
> software at all.
>
> As far as somebody else developing software that does
> what I need it to do, [test multiple systems over
> large folios of issues, run fast enough to watch a
> large number of issues] and lots of other stuff,
> forget it. I got the VB tutorial from Microsoft last
> December and had an Excel spreadsheet that was
> watching hundreds of issues and updating in realtime
> by March and I'm not a programmer or educated at all,
> just played with Basic in the old days. That was after
> trying two data provision routes that did not work
> well and crashed my software all of the time too, and
> just a part time endeavor at that. VBA only runs a
> little slower than C++ and Excel will do anything and
> everything you can think of. If you can flowchart it you can
> write it. I really recommend that route after seeing how weak
> TS2Ki is, my object of worship, wizard of oz, etc. It's just
> plain hokey. It figures, look at the stock price on TRAD, it
> indicates a not-first-rate-outfit doesn't it?
>
> My recommendation to anybody that wants to develope a
> backtester and radarscreen is that they build it on
> quote.com's data (very easy to manage, you can pull it from
> their server anytime, well most of the time, and in whatever
> bar format you want, no need to have ANY data on your own
> machine at all), and quote.com's chart program which is
> basically really nice, add a GUI (something that my own
> program will probably never have), make it backtest multiple
> systems over multiple folios, produce the results right in
> the spreadsheet for sorting, etc. That would not, in all
> actuality, be a formidable task for a programmer that was
> organized. If it then was as easy to program as EasyLanguage
> (I don't know how that would be done exactly) and cost less
> than $1000 you could sell a lot of copies I would guess. It
> would be very easy to expand too, rewriting VBA code is
> pretty simple and VBA seems to run really well, I had no
> particularly difficult problems with it in 3 months of programming.
>
> Just my 2 cents worth, hope nobody got shortchanged.
>
> Max
>
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