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RE: TradeStation.com? Let's Speculate



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Yeah....but does anyone know how custom-made signals, strategies, and
indicators are going to be done in the dot-com version of the product ?
Will they run efficient enough for real-time trading with multiple symbols ?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Mi [mailto:ami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 1:47 AM
> To: omegalist
> Subject: TradeStation.com? Let's Speculate
>
>
> When they made the acquisition and the announcement, no one
> really knew what this baby is going to really look like, other
> than we knew that they were moving toward net-centricness. After
> simmering for a month or two, we seem to be able to see better.
> Look at all the troubles, clumsiness and their costs involved in
> TradeStation. Data.
>
> I was their user when WOW rolled out FDCN and the data on-demand
> concept was really neat. S/W updates too - whenever you bring up
> WOW, it checks to see if there is a newer update and update it
> when needed - care free for users.
>
> HistoryBank daily update service is really looking like an
> interim solution for holding market share. It will be a passé
> sooner than most believe. With fast Internet connection wide
> spreading, it will take shorter time for TS to get the requested
> data for charting from a net centric data server than from GS on
> your own PC. So the next generation is going to be three lean and
> mean applications TS/OS/RS without GS. TAL RealNet is already
> doing that (http://www.taltrade.com/). Quote.com's QCharts is so
> successful in doing that. During the transition process, there
> will be two camps of TS users. We the listers here are all
> belonging to the dinosaur camp, at least initially. It's going to
> be like QCharts+EasyLanguage.
>