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> -----Original Message-----
> From: EarlA [mailto:earl.a@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 2:35 PM
> To: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RT] Purchase Advice - TS 2000 i
>
>
> Extremely good advice! The only aspect with which I would take
> exception is
> the degree to which Jason muted his criticism. Tradestation
> Technologies is
> the reincarnation of Omega and the Cruz brothers. Some of us
> remember Omega
> as the company which sold tons of stand-alone SuperCharts ($400+-) and
> Tradestation ($3,000+-) software, then left the users sucking
> hind tit with
> discontinued products. While SuperCharts was dropped entirely, they did
> release a new TradeStation, but it was a whole new product, new licensing
> package, and proprietary data feed. Some of us also remember the Cruz
> brothers as being long on promises of support and bug fixes and short on
> delivery ... a reputation which appears, according to the
> previous post, to
> have survived in their latest incarnation.
>
> And Jason is dead on regarding buying a used version. It has
> seemed to many
> of us that Omega/TT modus operandi has been to sell their extremely high
> priced software to trading newbies, then deprive them of the
> opportunity to
> resell the software (by prohibiting license transfer) when the newbie goes
> bust (most do) ... this would appear to assure a steady stream of new
> customers at full price. Many experienced traders (who know exactly what
> software capabilities they need) buy TS resales for a small
> fraction of the
> retail prices. By comparison, many software firms which sell high priced
> trading software permit a license transfer upon payment of a
> modest fee and
> will then provide support and upgrades.
>
> Earl
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Armstrong" <jarmstrong444@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 11:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [RT] Purchase Advice - TS 2000 i
>
>
> Edgar,
>
> My apologies for responding so late to your request for
> information on TS2Ki. My advice to you would be to first determine whether
> you actually need Tradestation at all. Tradestation is good
> software to use
> if you're going to do a lot of backtesting on historical data, but if you
> simply want to code your own indicators and trade off of them
> there are many
> software programs out there that are much more reliable and with better
> customer service that will do the trick. Tradestation 2000i is
> not the most
> reliable software out there. It's rather notorious in the trading
> community
> for the many bugs it contains. Buying a copy of this would be the
> equivalent
> of buying a car that was a lemon, because it never ran correctly in the
> first place.
>
> If you do decide that you need to use Tradestation, be sure to acquire a
> copy with a good forever pass word, run Win2k or XP (with NTFS
> file format),
> and make sure you have at least 512k of RAM, and update to Service Pack 5.
>
> If you're looking for historical Forex data, which can be hard to
> find, you
> might want to contact Iavor at http://www.is99.com/disktrading/ (no
> affiliation, just satisfied customer) He gave me a great deal of
> help when
> I was using this software in formatting my Global Server to accept Forex
> data.
>
>
>
>
>
> Hope this helps and if you have any questions I'll do my best to answer
> them.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Jason.
>
>
>
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