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It is not curious to me that 99.9% of the institutional world have
absolutely NO interest 'at all' in TradeStation. Even amongst the v.few
that do know 'TS' its considered a retail joke. If you look at any
requirements put out by hedgefunds or fund managers for quant/system
developers they do not even mention EL because EL is a dead end
street(BTW that doesn't mean EL isn't any good). And are you surprised
when volume players arnt interested in a platform that executes solely
through 1 broker or where 'extra' unreliable addon products are
required to execute elsewhere - Just some of what they want is speed,
connectivity, reliability(not necessarily in that order) and more
importantly written in C++. TS fails 100%!
TradeStation missed a massive opportunity. They 'could' have linked
up with MatLab or SPlus or even some of the free stats packages, they 'could have'
produced a code converter which could export/import systems,
indicators to and from C++ that produce exe, all spreading the 'EL' word.
They could have made connectivity with other brokers and fund management
functions/software easier, earlier. But they havent and wont bother because
their market is solely retail customers who dont know any better and dont
mind paying through the nose to execute through them. EL will always be in
its own little unheard of world.
Sunday, May 8, 2005, 3:02:07 PM, you wrote:
PB> "I believe you would change your mind if you were to attend
>> the Tradestation Expo and meet the people behind the scenes. See
>> you there
>> in September."
PB> That is certainly one inconvenient and expensive way to change your mind
PB> through propaganda, rationalization, and hyping. But if anyone falls for
PB> that one,
PB> you are probably right. They probably will change their mind.
PB> I think TS is the best but they should be focusing on software improvements
PB> you can
PB> see without the hype and expensive salesmanship. And they could be much
PB> better with
PB> marginal 'effort', but some Accountant has rationalized continuous marginal
PB> 'features'
PB> is best from a bottom line view.
PB> Hope TS always does well in the future, but their concern is not what's best
PB> for the trader.
PB> TS wants to dictate traders choices which are limited to TS services ONLY.
PB> Not because they
PB> are better competitively, but because they have few or no reasonable
PB> alternative choices.
PB> Once this transparent company initiative is changed, they won't need
PB> expensive 'pep rallies'.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dale Glaspie [mailto:dglaspie@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 11:54 AM
>> To: drwar
>> Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Tradestation Forum USERname and Password wanted
>>
>>
>> I have been using Tradestation products for many years and I have
>> been able
>> to find fixes or work arounds for every problem that I have had.
>> This forum
>> gives us access to some very good minds and these good people
>> provide fixes,
>> free of charge. I still use TS2000i primarily for Radar Screen
>> as it allows
>> me to scan 5000 symbols at a time. I believe it will be quite some time
>> before TS 8.1 or later will be able to do that. I also use TS 8.1 for
>> trading my accounts. The good people at Tradestation work hard
>> at trying to
>> improve their products and have a forum for uses to submit their
>> wish list.
>> No other software company I know of goes to the extent they do to
>> meet their
>> clients needs. I believe you would change your mind if you were to attend
>> the Tradestation Expo and meet the people behind the scenes. See
>> you there
>> in September.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "drwar" <drwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Dale Glaspie" <dglaspie@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 10:00 AM
>> Subject: RE: Tradestation Forum USERname and Password wanted
>>
>>
>> > Yes it took them years to create all those bugs while continually taking
>> > money from people with the promise of conitnued upgrades even
>> to the last
>> > version they had adamantly promised right from the mouth of the
>> President
>> of
>> > the coporation Mr. Cruz that they will release one last fix while moving
>> on
>> > to TS6,7,8 which they never came across with. They are
>> benefiting from the
>> > seeds they have sown and deserve what they get.
>>
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Best regards,
Michael mailto:michaelstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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