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To: Sir Francis Drake who wrote (524)	4/18/2000 6:45:00 PM
From: WryBoy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1001

Gotta disagree with you on your assessment of CyberX 1.6. There were some definite improvements made. Many more options, UI improvements, etc. Perfect? Far from it. Better than 1.5? I think yes. I think the direction CyberCorp should go to attract more business (not just customers, but other business interests) would be to acknowledge that what they have is more of an trade execution "engine." They should create software, e.g. an NT service or other such server component (i.e. a DLL with no user interface), and then license their APIs to that server software so that software developers can create their own user interfaces which use their execution engine. The model would be similar to Quote.com and QFeed. You can use QCharts to view data, or, you can obtain a license from Lycos, under non-disclosure, to write your own client-side software to display their server-side data. CyberCorp seems stuck on reserving the right to do all the client-side software development in-house and that is a mistake IMHO. There are many engineers out there who would jump at the chance to write better trading platforms for Cyber's execution engine. They don't realize that it makes no difference who writes the client-side software, as long as it's better, faster, more stabile, and sports features that they haven't even considered yet. As long as it uses their brokerage engine, why should they care much about who authored the client software? It's a better business model because it asks the world to participate in the innovation of their core business while retaining exclusively the proceeds to that core business (commissions!) My 2.5 cents. WB

To: Sir Francis Drake who wrote (524)	4/18/2000 10:16:00 PM
From: Mark Davis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1001

Here's my take on the Cybertrader program as a work in progress I traded on the ORIGINAL Cybertrader at a BLOCK trading office. That was in 1996/97. Though this is probably a rewrite of that earlier version, it is hardly new software. I was attracted to the many features and scans incorporated in Cybertrader, And for the most part they seem to work as advertised. But I have enough trouble dealing with a crazed market environment. The notion that the software may be giving me bad information (MM windows that don't update and give no warning for 5 minutes) or that it may crash at any time is not my idea of comfortable trading. Priority #1 should be reliability and stability. Once you lose sight of that the rest becomes irrelevant. Before this trading gig I was a professional programmer. I know what a 'solid' piece of programming acts like and feels like. This isn't it. Sorry to say it , but I'm going to have to go back to RT3 as a trading platform. Can't wait a year for the act to get straightened out. Disclaimer: Some of the problems I have been having may be due to my particular system installation or my ISP. Your mileage may vary.

To: Sir Francis Drake who wrote (524)	4/23/2000 11:48:00 AM
From: CyBerCorp.com	Respond to of 1001

Morgan, ...in the older versions, the last trade was color-coded to show red if it went off at the bid, and green if at the ask... in the 1.6 this is completely botched, and if the price suddenly moves so that the old ask becomes the new bid, the coding on the first trade that goes off on the new bid shows GREEN as if it went off at the ask... Thank you for pointing this out. We will be looking into this and making any adjustments necessary so as to account for the change in the inside market. Thank you again for your feedback and please don't hesitate to give us a call with any additional comments and or suggestions. Sincerely, CyBerCorp.com