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Dear Gary & Group,
Gary, I am indeed sorry that you have had the experience with TS2Ki that
you've had. I've read many of your posts, and from them and their
integrity, I have come to rely on your experiences and what you have to
say. Your note, and those of others, leave me quite up in the air re TS
in general and TS2Ki in particular.
My system is remarkably like your own: 1.33 GB Celeron, 512 PC133 RAM, 40
GB 7200 rpm IBM SpeedStar, altho I'm running Win98SE. The Celeron is
dedicated to TS. It's a clean install of Win98 & TS2Ki, and I don't have
anything else on it, particularly IE or Email, all of which I run from
another computer (a P3/500). I bought a copy of WinXP in order to be
ready to install it on my Celeron at the first suggestion of Win-related
problems, and its carton remains unopened, unpacked, and uninstalled.
I've been collecting ES & NQ in realtime from eSignal now for around 3
months. I shut down TS at the end of every Friday session, turn off the
computer for a minute or two, turn in back on, then start TS again for the
next 7 days, 24 hrs/day. I simply have had no problems with it ... the
computer, Win98, TS2Ki, data collection from eSignal, etc. --- no
crashes, no slow downs, no problems. And then I read a post like yours
and wonder "What's going on here?" I simply have no answers re the
discrepancies between our respective experiences. I accept that there
seem to be wide variations among experiences --- I just have no
explanations for them. Maybe its the temperate coastal weather up here in
Seattle??? So close to the Microsoft campus? A native effect, perhaps?
Sincerely,
Richard
Gary Fritz wrote:
> > Several months ago, I was met with the predicament of wanting to
> > use a TS add-on program that would work only with 32-bit programs,
> > such as TS2Ki, to which I had studiously avoided upgrading. I bit
> > the bullet and upgraded. To my surprise, both the actual upgrade
> > and my use of TS2Ki thereafter (for the past 2-3 months now) has
> > been seemless, as in no problems. Based on my limited experience,
> > you may wish to reconsider upgrading to TS2Ki.
>
> Based on my limited experience, you may want to tread VERY carefully
> on that path.
>
> I use TS4 for my trading. I wanted to move to TS2k because of the
> many improvements: > 13k bar charts, Easy Language enhancements,
> better system reports, 32-bit DLLs, etc.
>
> But I can't even get TS2k working reliably for offline research
> purposes, let alone realtime trading. I use it for research because
> of the improved tools, but it's *extremely* unreliable. Many times
> each day TS2k crashes, or the system reports lock up, or one of
> dozens of other bugs and poor-design problems force me to exit and
> restart, or at least grind my teeth in frustration. I can't imagine
> trusting my trading to this mess, and I'm not even trying to collect
> data in realtime.
>
> I know it's possible to run TS2k reliably -- I know people who do it -
> - but *I* can't. I installed TS2k on a brand-new Windows 2000 system
> with 512MB of RAM and 40GB of disk space. There is plenty of CPU,
> RAM, and disk available, and the OS was pristine when I started
> running TS2k. I don't know what else I could do to get it working
> right, so I don't trust it for my trading.
>
> You may be luckier than I was, but....
> Gary
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