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I tested Ensign for a while and found it to be so unbelievably flexible as
to make your mouth water.
Unlike Tradestation where you are "trapped" inside a loop of bar-by-bar
evaluation for your Easylanguage scripts, Ensign allows you to write scripts
which control the entire app. It's analagous to writing VBA for Excel/Word
etc (though its Pascal and a lot more clunky in practice. In the end I gave
up my trial of it for 2 main reasons
1) Charts are limited (and therefore system backtesting) to 2080(ish) bars.
2) realtime data support is DBC only (for me anyway).
When I asked if (1) would change I was told it would definitely NOT change.
Same for (2).
Those aside it seemed a decent platform and if you're prepared to hunker
down and write a fair bit of code you can effectively customise it as much
as you want.
Regards,
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: listmanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:listmanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Earl Adamy
Sent: 18 January 2000 13:14
To: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [RT] Re: Software Alternatives to TradeStation/Custom
indicators..
It's been my experience that Trading Techniques is not much more
responsive to software problems than is Omega although TT seems to do a
better job of quality control before releasing the product and patches.
Since purchasing AGet, I've found several bugs and feedback from other
AGet owners tells me that these bugs have been previously reported to TT
and have been around a long time:
a) AGet does not display metastock bond and other data properly which is
tick (e.g. 32nds, 8ths) based rather than decimal based. Rather than
implement a couple of lines of code to resolve the issue, TT insists
that the data be preformatted with the decimal portion as ticks,
non-Equis downloaders do not do.
b) AGet frequently offsets line origins by one or more bars horizontally
when rendering lines
c) Open Interest displayed on weekly and monthly charts is aggregated
and the aggregated data is pulled from the wrong daily bars. Open
Interest should never be aggregated into weekly and monthly charts.
d) Volume displayed on weekly and monthly charts is aggregated from the
wrong daily bars.
I've used a lot of software from a number of vendors and my own
experience has been that there is no vendor which can touch Ensign
(www.ensignsoftware.com) for quality, responsiveness, support and value.
A far second would be Equis. TT is near the bottom. Omega is the bottom.
Earl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliot Kaplan" <eliot@xxxxxxx>
To: "Omega Digest List"
<realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@eskimo.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 11:41 AM
Subject: [RT] Software Alternatives to TradeStation/Custom indicators..
> Anyone have suggestions for alternatives to Omega's software for
trading the
> S&P on an intraday basis?
>
> I am at the point of giving up on TradeStation, in either form.
>
> TradeStation 2000 is such a disaster as a piece of software that I am
left,
> after 3 weeks of TS4 to TS2K and data feed transition process, with an
> unusable (read, untradeable/unreliable) platform from which to trade.
>
> The transition I spoke of included moving from FutureSource to
Quote.com
> via DynaStore over the holidays, and even though Quote.com has had
> difficulties, I still believe in it as a service, and DynaStore is
behaving
> well.
>
> As a front end alternative, I have looked at Advanced GET, CQG & Aspen
> Graphics to date, and am partial to them in the same order.
>
> GET works with Quote.com, so that is good, requiring one less
adjustment. It
> is also an elegantly written piece, it seems.
>
> CQG is also well written, and I could justify CQG's cost in that you
get a
> high quality data feed along with the software. Anyone out there using
it
> for S&P day trading?
>
> Aspen Graphics is also very strong as a package, but is such a
non-standard
> interface, that I feel like a complete beginner software-wise. It also
> requires S&P Comstock (over the internet). Ironically, even their own
sales
> people are not confident their internet based product is robust.
>
> Finally, I could use Quote.com's QCharts. I am assuming they will iron
out
> the recent issues they have had.
>
> The key to all this is getting some custom indicators originally
written for
> TradeStation 4 converted into one of the above. If the software
vendors
> themselves don't provide this for me as an incentive to "lease" their
> products", I may need to pay someone to rewrite them. Anyone
interested?
>
> What frustration. I've been in the computer consulting business for
ten
> years, and have NEVER seen a more lame attempt at a "high" end piece
of code
> as TradeStation. And all for a mere $2000+. Pure hucksterism!
>
> While I appreciate that alot of you are having similar problems, I
have no
> intention of starting a flame Omega thread. So lets leave it unspoken,
> unless you have something real to add. I am sure the others on the
list will
> appreciate it.
>
> For those who have answers to my questions, your reply's are eagerly
> anticipated!
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Eliot
>
>
>
> Eliot Kaplan
>
> email: eliot@xxxxxxx
> web: www.isu.com
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