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No direct compensation but for your stand-up skills and product-related feedback, I would be happy to see what I could do for you... you will need to PM me though.

Thanks.

P.S. Anyone considering plastic surgery really ought to check out Ms. Rivers...scared me straight!
 
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No direct compensation but for your stand-up skills and product-related feedback, I would be happy to see what I could do for you... you will need to PM me though.

Thanks.

P.S. Anyone considering plastic surgery really ought to check out Ms. Rivers...scared me straight!
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Damn! I was hoping to make more money testing than I do trading. There go my hopes for a late life career change. I thank you most kindly for your offer, but losing my anonymity would cost me more than any remuneration you would consider reasonable. I don't want my present to catch up with me. However, I will continue to test the two versions fish-by-fowl and try to post more helpfully. I have an ulterior motive in that by posting publicly I hope you will prioritize fixing first what pisses me off the most just to shut me up. The more I look at it, the more I like it. But then again I had that experience with my first wife.
 
Now it's time to bitch again. The data window in 11 doesn't allow you to hide the names of the parameters being shown. Like you can't hide "price" or the study title. On some charts I like to keep the data window up all the time, so that lack of functionality wastes screen space.

Also sometimes when I left click on a study the software doesn't recognize that it's a study and brings up the menu for the chart, not the study. But I must say that the ability to call up the script directly from the chart and to initiate a backtest from the study pane is great. And the fact that the watch list has the time in seconds saves me screen space and computation because in 10.6 I get the seconds from a scrunched down bare one-second chart.
 
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Those of you who, like me, continue to self-flagellate testing 11 will know whereof I speak. They decided to relocate studies to the Documents folder. That would have been OK had they allowed us to access the old location. But noooooo. They have to make it hard. So I duplicated my existing studies folder to the new one in Documents and periodically update Documents as I create new studies in the old location. What lo! When I copy a new study from the old location to the new, the Version 11 function "Insert Study" doesn't recognize it unless I restart the program! How they do this since they apparently use Windows Explorer, I haven't a clue.
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I noticed the same thing the first time I tried to run my script. Wait, where's the folder I just created? Why does it only show up if I create an empty folder above it in the hierarchy? Close, re-open. Bizarre. Most arrays in my code still lead to undefined functions. I cannot figure out a solution. Doesn't make me optimistic.

Also, w/r/t the data manager in XP compatibility mode and running as admin, do a quick search for "esignal data manager XP compatibility mode". I noticed the link I gave you was long -- likely relied on my cookies to identify me as a customer but redirected you. I have a feeling changing how you run the dm won't really change anything though.

Scott: much appreciated, but my main concerns are over relative value for the price, auto trading, and -- fundamentally -- whether my scripts will even run in 11. None of these I will be able to affect by viewing newer releases. Diversifying is the right thing for me to do at this stage.
 
Hey arthur, have you tested the CPU efficiency of 10.6 vs 11?

After reading your comments in this thread, I'm too afraid to upgrade but I'd love to know if 11 is actually more efficient at running EFS studies?

I process a lot of tick data in my scripts and it would be nice to know if 11 is actually faster at running code.

cheers,

Runningbear
 
Jay, as a 10 year user of your product, I'd also love autotrading functionality. By not offering it, you are actually forcing loyal customers to migrate to Ninjatrader.

With 64 bit architecture and autotrading, you've got me as a customer for another ten years.

Runningbear
 
I can live without the functionailty. i can live with ugly. But I need 64 bit architecture and I need rock solid stable running complex scripts.

Everything else can be added or modified in later versions.

Runningbear
 
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I am still stuck in the twenteeth century, What is 64 bit archie going to do for us?
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To start with, 64-bit architecture lifts the 2GB limit on the amount of RAM a single application can use. With many modern computers capable of having 24GB of RAM, 2GB is really limiting. With larger amount of memory an application may be able to do in RAM things that with 32-bit architecture necessitate (comparatively very slow) disk IO. For example, backtesting on a few years of tick data etc.

Second, a number of operations such as arithmetics with long integers are massively faster on on the 64-bit instruction set. As a result, a lot of applications that deal with logic rather than floating-point calculations become faster effectively for free.
 
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