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Strategies & Market Trends : Neural Nets - A tool for the 90's -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Optim who wrote (280)	11/11/1998 2:52:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 871

<I pull 25 columns of data into Profit without having to fumble with loading each file individually> Reuters does it in similar fashion. I'm interested in Pinnacle's Continuous contract data because I sometimes get "faults" with the Reuters data using continuous. Which brings up a thought of a discussion .... I asked several people, got 3 different answers. Looking at trading the SPxx, would you use the spoo, the Cash or Continuous? Back in the summer I tried both Cash and the spoo. Tough to make a good call, as when the front month changes there is an unnatural gap in the data. Using the Cash you get false Opens. At the time the continuous made me uncomfortable because I wasn't quite certain the Reuters data was always good (on Continuous, because I often got download errors). It surprised me that no one agreed. I preferred one fellow's use of Continuous using Pinnacle data because he was the only other one "in the business", as it were. Some of the others traded but I was the only day-trader and the only one who makes a living doing this. At least this one fellow worked for a C.T.A. He gave me some other ideas as well. How are you making out these days, still using the older models?