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RE: EL translator as a web site



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EXACTLY. In fact I had toyed with the idea of a WL/Easylanguage converted 2
years before the WL "takeover"....
Voelker will confirm this.
And I came-up with the same conclusion:
the market was too limited (and the trading code hackers were TOO, TOO  MANY
!!).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: DH [mailto:catapult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 10:36 PM
> To: Omega List
> Subject: Re: EL translator as a web site
>
> Seems like a really tiny market to me. People who use any
> kind of trading software are a small market. Such a product
> as you are proposing would require the following conditions,
> narrowing the market to almost nothing.
>
> 1. People using one platform who are interested in switching
> to another.
> 2. People who use custom code, not readily available as
> standard functions on the two trading platforms.
> 3. People who are not capable of translating their own code
> to the new platform.
> 4. People who are not concerned with divulging proprietary stuff.
>
> Most people doing custom stuff can code it themselves or
> figure out how to do it. Non-programmers are generally happy
> enough with the canned stuff -- anyone who is really serious
> will learn to write his own code.
> I can imagine sales being in the single digits.....
>
> --
>   Dennis
>
>