Review: Tradestation 7.x

Did Tradestation ever fix this? It's May 2005, two years after this was supposed to be fixed, and I'm seeing the same problem you described here and in your review -- lags during volume spikes on futures.

Part of the problem may be on the client side, where the CPU tends to peg at 100% during large volume spikes. It may be that the problem will disappear with a CPU and memory upgrade, but before I resort to that, I'd like to know whether the feed lag problem you described has indeed been fixed as promised.

Quote from elindydotcom:

It's not the executions that are slow, it's the quotes that can lag sometimes. Once the order is in, it's probably filled (on average) as fast as at any other on-line broker. But, if you've got a delay in your quotes and you're trying to hit the bid or take the offer, you can easily find yourself a very unhappy camper.

Note: According to the latest bulletins, Tradestation has committed to fixing this issue in May 2003 for Futures so this may be a moot point in a few weeks.

-eLindy
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Do you have many workspaces open?

Do you have like a million charts open?

Do you charts look like "Indicator City"?

Are your indicators set to update their values intra-bar?

Have you loaded like 50,000+ bars in your charts?

Are some of your indicators doing a shitload of calculations on every tick update?


Some things to consider.....
 
Hit Ctrl +Alt +Delete and click on "Task Manager" and you can watch your CPU percentage to see if you are pegging the tachometer.
 
Quote from jfinlayson:

Did Tradestation ever fix this? It's May 2005, two years after this was supposed to be fixed, and I'm seeing the same problem you described here and in your review -- lags during volume spikes on futures.

Part of the problem may be on the client side, where the CPU tends to peg at 100% during large volume spikes. It may be that the problem will disappear with a CPU and memory upgrade, but before I resort to that, I'd like to know whether the feed lag problem you described has indeed been fixed as promised.
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I think part of the problem on the futures side was fixed by connecting directly to the exchanges -- there may still be lags, but I know that this was supposed to solve some of the issue.
 
Has anyone here used TradeStation for daytrading Eminis? It seems like the backtesting might be useful for fine tuning a trading system for S&P or Dow futures?
Appreciate any comments.
 
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