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Don,
Your right; you can't hold up progress. Clearly, DTN is attempting to keep
their feed up to date and meet the demands of its customers. The laggard
here is Tradestation and much as I hate to walk away from all the time I
have invested in Omega programs, I am planning to move to another real time
platform - probably Fibonacci Trader. I am just hoping to continue using TS
for intraday trading for another couple of months. Tradestation has
promised to do this patch (which is apparently easy to do) in a timely
fashion but given their track record, who knows? DTN also feeds some other
real time programs that currently, may not be ready for the Dec.16 changes.
I use DSL for my PATS order entry but like the reliability and 'always on'
aspect on DTN satellite. Hopefully, this will shake out so that everyone
gets what they need. Have a good weekend.
Regards,
Jim Alvis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Thompson" <detomps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [RT] DTN and TS2000
> Jim,
> How do you even know TS is going to provide a patch? I have been nagging
> DTN for 8 months or
> more to get the volume on the ES and NQ, I use Ensign For Windows, I can
> appreciate your predicament,
> but can't you migrate to thier new platform and use a DSL line?
> Don Thompson
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Alvis" <alvishsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 4:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [RT] DTN and TS2000
>
>
> > Not only may TS2000/DTN be doomed in the long run, it may be doomed in
the
> > very near future.
> > In a conversation with a senior DTN tech support person today, he
> suggested
> > that the only reason that TS2Ki users have not already experienced
serious
> > tick loss problems using RS 232 ports and high speed serial cards, is
> that
> > tick volume has dropped in the last few months ( stock market lower and
> 911
> > effect). The lack on an Ethernet / USB interface to Global Server is a
> > killer, particularly as factors that increase tick volume come into
play
> > (additional data fields, decimalization, single stock futures, etc.)
Even
> > if Tradestation can complete a patch/fix by Dec. 15-16 ( Tradestation
> > support techs remain noncommittal during my recent calls), this "fix"
may
> > not actually fix the problem. As BobR points out, without the high
speed
> > capabilities of an Ethernet connection to GS, the problem will only get
> > worse in the longer term. I have urged DTN to again postpone the
changes
> to
> > their feed beyond Dec.15-16, if Tradestation requires a few more days to
> > complete the patch. Hopefully, TS2000/DTN customers will not be caught
> in
> > the middle a second time. Please call both DTN and Tradestation to
> express
> > your concern.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jim Alvis
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "BobR" <bobrabcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 1:58 PM
> > Subject: [RT] DTN and TS2000
> >
> >
> > > Had a little talk with a dtn tech this morning about the changes they
> are
> > > making in the datafeed. December 15/16 is their next planned
activation
> > of
> > > the emini volume, tick correction, and whatever else. As dtn users
> recall
> > > the last time they "Beta" tested this, our CPU useage went to near max
> on
> > a
> > > dual 600mhz if the ES or NQ were being charted. Some cpu's may have
> hung
> > > up. Closing those charts and maybe radar screen dropped the cpu
useage
> > back
> > > to normal and the server collected the data OK I think. Problem is
even
> > if
> > > Omega provides a service pack for this, TS2000/DTN may still be doomed
> in
> > > the long run. The reason is dtn is going to make additional changes
> that
> > > may overload the RS232 ports creating tickloss and only software that
is
> > > ethernet compatible will be able to keep up with the feed. I don't
> > > particularly want to give up the dtn feed since it has so much on it
in
> > the
> > > way of statistics. Has anyone found a NIC/Comport emulator? Seems
like
> I
> > > ran across something like this the other day in some software and
can't
> > > recall where. But maybe even that wouldn't work with the Global
Server.
> > >
> > > bobr
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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