Lawrence Chan of NeoTicker answers our questions
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 9:49 am
Dear fellow traders,
I'd like to introduce you Mr. Lawrence Chan, the great mind behind the NeoTicker platform. Mr. Chan agreed to answer our questions here on the forums and involve in the ensuing discussion. Please feel perfectly free to ask anything about NeoTicker here.
I'd like to ask some introdutory questions:
Thank you very much for your answers, Mr. Chan.
Have a great Independence day all!
Michal Kreslik
I'd like to introduce you Mr. Lawrence Chan, the great mind behind the NeoTicker platform. Mr. Chan agreed to answer our questions here on the forums and involve in the ensuing discussion. Please feel perfectly free to ask anything about NeoTicker here.
I'd like to ask some introdutory questions:
- Many fellow traders who are used to Tradestation are worried about Neo not having so intuitive user interface as Tradestation does. Are there any videos or other interactive learning tools that might ease the learning curve available?
- Many of our community members would like to switch to Neo, but are afraid of converting all their work from EasyLanguage to some of the Neo supported languages. Is there any convertor from EasyLanguage to the some of the Neo supported languages? If not, are you planning to release one? I think you would get two hundred new users instantly by releasing such a convertor just by announcing it on this forum
- If it's not secret, how many users are currently using Neo?
- Which languages are supported within Neo? What is the difference between the language supported directly and the one supported via IDL? Is it possible to write indicators directly in C#.NET?
- In a nutshell, what are the most important advatages of Neo over Tradestation 8.1 and MetaTrader 4?
- Unlike with Tradestation, it is possible to choose one's own brokerage and datafeed provider separately from the platform vendor with Neo. This gives user the freedom to choose the service provider based on his own preference and the service provider quality. But this raises two questions:
- how well the different data feed interfaces are handled within Neo? For instance, I've played with Neo demo and had problems setting up the datafeed from the EFX Group demo account, Neo was getting stuck etc. I don't expect ordinary user to be able to resolve these issues alone.
- Do you offer some generic datafeed & history provider for those whose broker is not supported yet? Subscribing to a third-party datafeed provider generates additional monthly fees so that the total fee for using Neo and the datafeed may theoretically surpass the Tradestation's $250 monthly fee (which includes platform, datafeed, price history).
- how well the different data feed interfaces are handled within Neo? For instance, I've played with Neo demo and had problems setting up the datafeed from the EFX Group demo account, Neo was getting stuck etc. I don't expect ordinary user to be able to resolve these issues alone.
- What is the Neo program stability? My demo hangs up every now and then. Are there any special requirements for preventing such a behavior that could be secured on the user's side? Is the full version more stable?
- Do you plan to offer an order interface with Oanda, apparently the best FX broker around? If not, I'm planning to write this order interface in C#.NET myself. I guess every Neo FX trader would like to have an interface to Oanda.
- Could you please inform us about the licensing policy for the new alternative search method optimizer - the Grid optimizer?
Thank you very much for your answers, Mr. Chan.
Have a great Independence day all!
Michal Kreslik