I would say special offers are good until at least mid April . In terms of upgrades , you get free upgrades for 1 year from purchase on the orginal product. The real time upgrade will be somewhere between $299.00 and $499.00 for existing customers. We have not set that upgrade price yet.
Realistic by the end of the year. Possible by end of third quarter. The delays are partly my fault. I keep adding new function and features as I see they are needed to the offline product. A few features I added took almost a month of programming time. I wanted them for my research and also had request from existing customers so I did it. In addition developing real time product is not easy. We had problems with handling a large number of symbols and had to rewrite the server part at one point. I will not release it until it's ready. We are now on the correct track and I am confident we will have a real time version this year.
I am surprised to read the above, why should anyone want to delete your post? Are you sure of it? As, you had posted a similar question earlier, I even replied that. It is here http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1852732#post1852732
Yes you can use the genetic optimizer. This will speed up the optimization results by a factor of 10 to as much as 1000!. It does this because it can find an answers nearly as good as trying all the combinations while trying only a small percentage of them. I am working on developing a new trading system. The optimization using brute force would have taken a week, but it can be finished in 10 hrs using the genetic optimizer. Using this tool you can finish overnight what use to take a week of computer time. The genetic optimizer is an addin for TradersStudio. It's currently on sale for $599.00 with TradersStudio. You can purchase it for $149.00 if you already own TradersStudio.
Well so far, I am really satisfied with it. The support system is wonderful, they listen and help you out as they did when I had problems with the TradeStation Code translation (see here http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1852732#post1852732)
This thread smells. TraderSystem tries to appear as an objective thread starter, but instead comes across as the anchor person on an infomercial about that wonderful and amazing product, TraderStudio... A poll on this? Give me a break!