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TS6's worst feature is that you are completely dependent on the Cruz
brothers. That single issue makes all the bugs in TS2000i turn to nothing.
They will never offer more historical data for a number of reasons. For
one, it's too valuable, so if they offer it, they will sell it to
you. Therefore, they don't want you to get it anywhere else. Second,
Their server will overload when so many customers are downloading years of
tick data. They don't want to invest in such infrastructure when they can
sell it to you on CD instead.
Until they go that route, they will continue to convince their new
customers that a holy grail system can be discovered with only a few months
of tick data. So, you are left with daily bars, which everyone has.
I would purchase a used copy of TS4 or TS2000i and then download all the
OMZ files from TRAD's website ASAP. Because, I guarantee you that they
will no longer --sooner, rather than later-- offer the intraday data.
http://www.tradestation2000i.com/support/refresh.shtm
At 01:34 PM 11/8/2001, traderkirk@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Michael,
>
>I am using TS6 now, but did not use 2000i. I was
>a former SuperCharts user so I was able to
>subscribe to TS6 for $99/month. I have a friend
>with 2000i that sends me ela files that are
>automatically converted into TS6 format, so I
>don't think there is a problem using 2000i
>created indicators.
>
>My big complaint is with the data. There is very
>limited historical intraday data. I get the e-
>mini contracts back only to February 2001, and
>some symbols only go back to May. Also, you get
>no intraday data for exchanges that you don't
>subscribe to real-time. Not even delayed. It
>makes testing a system difficult...there just
>isn't enough data to do proper out of sample
>testing. And you can't test on other markets
>that you don't want real-time data for. All this
>could be solved if they would just allow you to
>import data files, but they don't. You have to
>use what they provide. I don't understand this,
>as you still have to pay them for the software
>lease, so its not like they would lose anything.
>
>Hopefully they will offer some type of solution
>to this in the future. Otherwise, I'll be
>hunting down a copy of 4.0 or 2ki.
>
>Kirk
>
>
> > --- Original Message ---
> >Sent: 11/08/01 04:15:27
> >From: aiiishot@xxxxxxxxx
> >To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: TS Pro Questions
> >
> >Hi,
> >Is anyone a former TS2Ki user and is currently
>subscribing to TS Pro 6.0?
> >Can I subscribe to TS pro without using their
>brokerage service, and what is
> >the cost?
> >Can you tell me if the indicators created in
>TS2Ki will work in TS Pro?
> >How is the datafeed for emini futures in TS Pro,
>as compared to Esignal or
> >Comstock, I'm especially interested how it
>handles fast markets and
> >openings?
> >Is there Volume data available for the eminis in
>the TS Pro version?
> >
> >Finally, if I just stay with TS2ki / esignal,
>should I be worried about my
> >datafeed not being compatible with TS2Ki in the
>near future? (Since the
> >Trad company no longer supports TS2Ki)
> >
> >Thank you in advance,
> >Michael
> >
> >
> >
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