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Strategies & Market Trends : TradeStation - Why No thread for this mega product -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Watkins who wrote (75)	9/18/2000 7:15:26 AM
From: Robert V. Cavaleri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 147

Well Michael & Cash, Thank you for helping me to make a more informed decision, and welcome the newest omega user to the thread... (just took out the high bid on e-bay for tradestation 2000i for $862). That price I can stomach a little better than $2500. It also realized that If I spent the 299 on the developers kit for MetaStock, that I would have spent 669 total on that software, when 200 more could have me in the drivers seat of TradeStation, without having to do a ton of work in c++ which I would rather not do. If for some reason, TS is not what I hoped (which at this point, I seriously doubt), It looks like I can easily get my money back on e-bay. Checking past auctions for the software reveals that it is sold there frequently in the 8-900 range as Cash mentioned. I probably bought at a slightly higher end of that range at 862. I hope you don't mind me asking you guy's for a few questions now and again as I get up to speed. Thanks.

To: Michael Watkins who wrote (75)	9/18/2000 7:19:27 AM
From: Robert V. Cavaleri	Respond to of 147

Also Michel, If TradeStation can convert regular comma separated values (CSV) data, then if your trading systems only depend on end-of-day data, you can have that for free. Go to 'thebigeasyinvestor' and download their free scanning software (the best free software I have ever seen) and use it to download data for free everyday (for now anyway). The catch is that the data only goes back 2 years, but for my purposes that is fine at the moment. Regards, Robert