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THanks for the pretty good news....
are you on SP4"B" or SP4"C" as far as release level ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Kaplan [mailto:eliot@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 11:30 PM
> To: Paul Newton; RealTraders; Omega Digest List
> Subject: Re: pc quote etc.
>
>
> Listers,
>
> I have been prompted for an update of my experience with PCQuote & TS2K.
> Here you go!
>
> First, in a couple of posts there seems to be a misunderstanding that I am
> using PCQuote with TS4. Just for clarity sake, this is not so. I am using
> PCQuote with TS2K. There is no PCQuote data feed for TS4 I don't believe.
>
> As for PCQuote merging with some other company, of this I know nothing.
>
> As well, I've been asked if PCQuote's Hyperfeed product is the correct
> choice of download from their website. Hyperfeed is the satellite product
> for TS2k I believe. I was told to download the PCQuote Online product.
>
> As for the data feed and software, things are going relatively smoothly at
> this point. Not perfect, but workable.
>
> Michael Watkins is still grooving without incident I believe, but
> after one
> flawless day, I landed back on earth with a strange bug.
>
> It is this:
>
> I have 14 workspaces. Each workspace is stretched out over 4
> displays. Each
> workspace includes one quote window, and 6-10 chart windows in
> each. I like
> a lot of views of my S&P and related data.
>
> As I Control-Page Up or PageDown, or click on the tabs at the
> bottom of the
> screen, in essence flipping through my workspaces, I noticed that several
> windows in each workspace are "auto-scrolled" all the way to the
> left, i.e.,
> they are providing me a view of the oldest data in that particular window.
> To view the most recent data, I must scroll them back to the
> right. Somewhat
> annoying and time consuming. They do this by themselves, ongoing.
>
> I called a particular senior tech at Omega, and left a message, but have
> received no response as yet.
>
> Anyone seen this before?
>
> Other than that, TS2K is behaving. It barely uses 20% of the processor at
> any particular time.
>
> I did corrupt some of the windows in each workspace by downloading
> HistoryBank data with TS2K open, even though the data was for
> some stocks I
> want to track as background for my S&P trading, that are not even
> represented in my workspaces in any windows yet. The overnight Globex
> symbols were the primary ones affected, though some others also
> needed to be
> recreated. This was my fault.
>
> Other than some windows not refreshing until I click in that
> window, I have
> little else to report.
>
> I did note a bad tick that gave me a high of 1482.40 today. As most of you
> probably know, the high was 1478.20 on the opening 5 minute bar. This is a
> PCQuote issue I believe, and we'll have to watch to see how much bad data
> they transmit.
>
> I did also notice that my total volume numbers for the Nasdaq were off,
> markedly, some 500,000,000 from CNBC's AND Quote.com's numbers. I have not
> had time to ask them about this.
>
> As for speed, the feed is tick for tick as fast as Quote.com in my
> experience.
>
> Please note that unlike Michael, I did not wipe the drive clean and reload
> NT on 2 drives (I have one) and rebuild everything after leaving
> Quote.com &
> DynaStore. TS2K had crashed several times during that trial period and may
> have sustained some corruption, I'm not sure. Some of the anomalies I am
> experiencing, though minor at this point, may grow more persistent or
> catastrophic over time. Well see.
>
> I think Michael's very clean behavior is a sign that under "perfect"
> conditions, the program can behave close to the way it should. I hope he
> never has any problems, but my instinct tells me that over time, his TS2K
> too MAY begin to show some aging, strain, or wear in some odd behavioral
> ways.
>
> If TS were a more robust app, well, who knows! But as we all know, it is
> not!
>
> I'll let you know more about how TS2K behaves over time.
>
> Eliot
>
>
>
>
>
> Eliot Kaplan
>
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>
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> > From: "Paul Newton" <paluap@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:54:50 -0800
> > To: "Eliot Kaplan" <eliot@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: pc quote etc.
> >
> > Eliot, it is vitally important that you keep us on omega-list
> up to date on
> > your working with pc-quote, particularly in light of the recent
> merger news.
> > If pc quote is the solid gold alternative to bmi etc. for
> ts2000i then I and
> > others would like to know. After all, I am a ts4 guy, and I
> don't want to
> > share my bandwidth!. An update of your recent glowing
> breakthrough would be
> > appreciated! Paul
> >
> >
>
>
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