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That's the key: the best product "on the market."
By the time the product enters retail, whatever boxed bells and whistles it offers are
already useless. However, Tradestation's EasyLanguage allows the user
to come up with something new. The ability to translate one's wits
into a trading strategy is unmatched, until you get into your own
private or hired programming, which leaves TRAD in the dust.
TRAD's recent brokerage business model sure worked, because I see a lot of lemmings
yapping about Tradestation in many groups now more than any other time in the
company's history. They like the illusion of power Easy Language
provides. But EL provides them nothing; it only mirrors their wits.
Tuesday, June 24, 2003, 10:23:52 AM, you wrote:
AM> Jan wrote:
>>It is disgusting, immoral, etc., but they have the best product on
>>the market and they know it and we, who're using it, know it too
>>otherwise we'd have switched to something else long time ago.
AM> Do they really have the best product on the market?
AM> I don't think I've ever seen a good side-by-side comparison with
AM> competing products such as eSignal, or WealthLab, or AmiBroker.
AM> I do know that TS (at least TS2ki) has deficiencies that other
AM> products don't have; for example, TS doesn't have the ability to
AM> optimize on custom-calculated results, and TS can't do anything with
AM> portfolios.
AM> I'd been interested in trying WealthLab but last I looked, the trial
AM> period wasn't sufficient for evaluation, especially since I'm a
AM> programmer. I'd only have a chance to look at it over weekends, and
AM> there aren't enough weekends in the trial period to get familiar
AM> with the software.
AM> -Alex
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