What is a reasonable amount of $ to pay for a legit version? Any particular versions better/worse? Anyone know if 2000i works with IB datafeed? Thanks in advance. I know this is a boring thread...any help appreciated
A legit version will cost you about 2400$. Anyone owning a legal version cannot sell it, if he sells it will become an illegal copy. Anyone who tries to sell on Ebay gets Omega's lawyers at his door.
Wrong. TradeStation lawyers aren't going to show up on your door. TS doesn't like them sold on ebay because most are not legit. But selling your legit copy is legal under US copyright laws. I sold my version on ebay about 18 months ago. A fair value is about $800 USD. Be sure its not a counterfeit. Be sure it includes physical manuals and not PDF versions. Its getting harder and harder to find legit versions since most have already been sold. Most 2000i's were sold as everyone switched to TS 7/8. Now that phase is over.
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EULA's are not easy to uphold in a court of law. Ever read the EULA's attached with most malware? LOL... Right now, on ebay are 2 copies of 2000i. One is legit, the other is not. TS doesn't care. Ebay's VERO program is a joke. TS was also going to support 2000i, they never did. It died with SP5. They left their clients holding the bag. 2000i is an 8 year old buggy program. Glad I got rid of my version when I did
TS2k is buggy but you can work around nearly all of it. I found that it does not always do division correctly, it will change the price of an issue under 10cents to 100 times as much, it crashes if you are not careful about sorting and altering things while RadarScreen is running, and it is a royal pain in the ass to keep track of all the little rules about loading extra bars, formatting indicators, etc when you are writing indicators. True that original owner not allowed to sell it but they did/do. If it shows up on ebay just email the seller before they remove the ad. The third party tools available are generally higher quality programming than what went into Tradestation 2000. If you download a cracked version you will get spyware, etc. probably. Make sure you get the "good forever password" version with Service Pack 5. You should be able to get an original one for a few hundred bucks if you shop around.
tomhaden & bobcows, What is your experience w/ TS2000i as a charting software (not for writing formulas or backtesting)? Specifically, do you know of any charting packages that are better (more flexible) and work with any reliable datafeeds? I've not used TS, but from demos I've seen it is more flexible than MetaStock (and the expen$ive Reuters 3000xtra that is built around it) or Bloomberg's charting.