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Hango,
You didn't get my question right and I don't complain "blindly"
In my original posting I asked for opinion about another trader's
experience, not mine.
As far as I'm concerned, I have less workspaces open than you, no updating
every tick, I don't run ANY other programs, only TS4 and I don't experience
loss
of data during the time hour glassa is on.
However, I do have a problem with BMI performance during fast NQ markets
with tick volume exceeding ~200 ticks/min.
E.g. today 9:18 CST I went short when the price on the screen was 1396.00.
My fill 5 sec later was 1389.50. I looked at TS clock at the top of the page
and it was 55 sec behind brokers clock which closely matches the exchange
time.
I checked broker's price and it was running below my fill price.
I haven't observed this phenomenon for some time, but I have in the past.
BMI tech supp confirmed that during fast markets they cannot handle the
flow.
In addition, my ticks DID drop to ~85%, but today the total was back to
normal.
A friend of mine in Incline Village had consistently 64% of my ticks last
fall using
BMI cable tuned to CSPAN as is mine.
BTW, I've been with BMI ever since it was taken over by DBC and my
experience
with it's been positive until a few months ago. I understand they don't want
to spend
resources on a dead product and push everybody to switch to eSignal.
Regards,
Jan Philipp
---- Original Message -----
From: "Hango Winspy" <hwinva@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jan4123@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <multitrak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: eSignal w/Dynastore for TS4
> Nothing wrong with BMI cable from my observation. I've been BMI's
subscriber
> for six and half years. I used to collect 5 to 10 % less number of ticks
> than a friend of mine. But since I cleaned up my computer system and got
rid
> of all the unnecessary programs, I have been in a great shape for more
than
> two years.
>
> During day trading hours, I only run Excel97, TS4 and it's server under
> Window98 on a 3 years old Dell computer (PII 450, 128RAM). I definitely
turn
> off all the memory resident programs such as anti virus, fire wall, task
> schedule, etc. during trading hours. In TS4, I open up to 4 workspaces.
Each
> workspace has 3 to 6 windows. Each window has 7 to 18 indicators with very
> complex calculations. I only let higher time frame windows recalculate
every
> tick. The lower time frame windows, such as 1 or 5 minutes charts, I only
> allow my indicators recalculate at finished bar.
>
> In terms of the data I collected, I think I have a very good result. For
> example I have ( from midnight to midnight, 02/25/2002)
>
> 46,949 ticks for ES2H, only 6 ticks less than CME's data*
> 41,577 ticks for NQ2H, only 7 ticks less than CME's data
> 5,033 ticks for SP2H, only 7 ticks less than CME's data
> 1,931 ticks for ND2H, only 3 ticks less than CME's data
>
> * CME's data is available at
> http://www.cme.com/ftp.cfm/pub/gtime and
> http://www.cme.com/ftp.cfm/pub/time
>
> So, before you clean up your computer system, please don't blindly
complaint
> BMI's quality. No affiliation, just a satisfied long time customer except
> when I need a technical support once in a while.
>
> BTW, I only collect 12 symbols in futures and 30 symbols in index.
>
> Good trading
> Hango
>
>
> >From: Jan Philipp <jan4123@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: Jan Philipp <jan4123@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: multitrak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: eSignal w/Dynastore for TS4
> >Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:29:19 -0800
> >
> >My BMI cable was OK until 1/1/ 2002. Since then, daily ticks which used
to
> >match eSignal's, dropped to average ~85% of eSignal.
> >
> >Jan Philipp
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <multitrak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 9:31 PM
> >Subject: Re: eSignal w/Dynastore for TS4
> >
> >
> > > I'd rank DTN and BMI as transmitting the most ticks, then followed by
> >Qcom
> > > with Esignal last (based on side by side real time comparison for the
> >past
> > > month).
> > >
> > > MT
> > >
> > > >my experience is different. With BMI cable feed, I never lose ticks
and
> > > >I open workspaces, install indicators, etc., all the time. I know
> >because
> > > >I compare ticks with other users and also have 1 min chart with Bob
> > > >Scott's indicators & alert.
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