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Kent,
I have done the email to my cell phone under various schemes in
the past and two issues that always made it difficult were:
1)Variable amount of delay depending on network traffic and time
of day etc.
2) Depending on your reception, some of the mail just never arrives.
I ended up sending myself multiple messages (2-5) spaced out a minute or
two hoping I would at least get one. Not a good feeling with a SP in the
balance. I also would add time based signals, for example every hour to
make sure the system was working. If it was 12:08 and I was getting the
12:04
message, I knew I missed two and it took 4 minutes for the third to reach
me.
I would recommend a time stamp be included in the message so you don't react
to and old message and have a better feel for how your link is working.
Perhaps now that email and messaging has become an important marketing
issue for the cell phone companies, they have improved the reliability.
You would think they could ask your phone "did you get that message"?
And keep trying until it did. (No missed messages)
Regards, and have a great holiday.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent Rollins" <kentr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "OmegaList" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: advancing issues e mail alert
> If you get a cell phone with Text Messaging, you can have the text
messages
> emailed to it. For example, with Sprint PCS phones, you pay an extra $5 a
> month (maybe it's $10, can't remember). You send email to
> yourphonenumber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and it appears on your phone
shortly
> thereafter. Usually the delay is 5 seconds, sometimes it's 5 minutes but
> it's a lot easier than making a call every hour. Message length is
limited
> to something like 150 chars. Verizon and AT&T probably have something
> similar.
>
> Kent
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Shepherd" <mailrs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <Omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 6:10 PM
> Subject: advancing issues e mail alert
>
>
> Hello Omega-list,
>
> I trade the oddball system and sometimes have to be away from my
> computer during the day. I don't need to see the action but do need
> to know what the advancing issues are doing to keep my trades going.
>
> Attached is an els for ts2000i for an indicator which can be applied
> to a 1 minute chart with the S&P as data 1 and advancing issues as
> data 2. It sends an e-mail alert ( if you have enabled messaging on
> the chart and on the program) which tells me what the advancing
> issues are at 5 minutes before each hour.
>
> I have opened an e-mail account with Yahoo which can be accessed by
> telephone which will verbally read my e-mails to me. So I can
> access my e-mail account 4 minutes before the hour and I make the
> assumption that the advancing issues will not change much from 5
> minutes before the hour to the hour. If a trade is indicated, I
> still have time to call my broker and complete the trade on the hour.
>
> Even if you don't trade the oddball, I thought this code and idea
> might be helpful.
>
> Text of els is below:
>
> {***************************************
> Written by Roger Shepherd 10/01/02
> Description: Alert to send an email reporting hourly advancing issues
> and price at 5 minutes before each hour. Data1 is S&P Data2 is advancing
> issues
> both plotted on 1 minute basis. Times are central time zone.
> ****************************************}
> Var:TME(955),
> SP(0), ADV(0),SPT(""),ADVT(""),TMT(""),TM(0);
>
> If date <> date[1] then begin
> tme = 855;
> end;
> SP = Close of Data1;
> ADV = Close of Data2;
> TM = time;
>
> If time = TME then begin
> SPT= NumToStr(SP, 2);
> ADVT= NumToStr(ADV,0);
> TMT = Numtostr(TM,0);
>
> Alert (" Avancing issues are " + ADVT);
> TME = TME[1] + 100;
> End;
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Roger mailto:mailrs@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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