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Re: To MarkBrown: Real-time datafeeds in Python



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Fulks" <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Alex Matulich" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: To MarkBrown: Real-time datafeeds in Python


> At 12:36 AM 5/7/2004, Alex Matulich wrote:
>
> >>This is easy if you build our own buy/sell functions. Pretty simple.
Conceptually:
> >>
> >>   Buy  XXX shares of Data(YYY) next bar at market
> >>   Sell XXX shares of Data(YYY) next bar at market
> >
> >You can do that?  I honestly didn't know that.  I learn something new
> >every day.  Is this a TS7 feature only, or also TS2000i?
> >
> >>You also need to call an "ExecuteOrders" function at the top of the
> >>code to actually modify the positions.
> >
> >Hm... I don't see that anywhere in TS2000i.
>
>
> I will reply in detail later but I wanted to clear up a misunderstanding.
>
> The Buy/Sell functions I referred to are my own functions that have
nothing to do with the TradeStation commands. I keep track of the portfolio
arithmetic in the functions.
>
> Pretty simple really...
>
> Bob Fulks
>


Bob, could you expand on this a little?

sam