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Andy Bower-3

Re: Dolphin 6.0

Chris,

> > www.alchemetrics.org
>
> That is a very nice site.

Thanks.

> And a good advertisement for (Dolphin) Smalltalk -- one thing that
> really shines through is a strong impression that you were having
> tremendous fun writing those systems.
>
> It's somewhat jarring to click through from the plushy good taste of
> alchemetrics.org to the comparatively trashy-looking sites that you
> reference ;-)

Of course, I couldn't possibily comment :-)

> BTW, I noticed a few small problems on the site, I mention them here
> on the off-chance that you are interested....

Thanks, we've addressed those. Also we've got rid of the small font;
we'd hoped to fit all of the pages in without the use of scroll bars in
the frames but if you can't read it ...

Best regards,

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
www.object-arts.com

Andy Bower-3

Re: Dolphin 6.0

In reply to this post by Christopher J. Demers

Chris,

> > As you may have seen on c.l.s, the beans are spilled here:
> >
> > www.alchemetrics.org
>
> Very cool, thanks for sharing the info. I wish you guys great
> success. Somehow I suspected your project was something like this.
> I will be looking at the site in more detail as time permits. Some
> time ago I wrote a simulated trading program in Dolphin. I called it
> HAL. It used some multi-day trend analysis to generate a collection
> of stocks to watch for entry points during the day. To spiff it up a
> bit I even had the little talking wizard announce the trades as they
> happened. It was fun to listen to it calling out the orders. I used
> STB to persist the data overnight. We started with 1 million
> (simulated) dollars, unfortunately it lost a few hundred thousand
> dollars over a few weeks. :( We still use Dolphin to generate
> indicators, but I have put the idea of a fully automated trading
> system on hold for a while. ;) Smalltalk is great for simulation.
> It would be cool if your new site can reach a new audience of
> potential developers.

One thing we might do is to build the Portfolio Analyser into a
standalone product and sell that. It could be integrated with Dolphin
(i.e. using Smalltalk to develop the strategies) or be sold as an
add-on to TradeStation (where their EasyLanguage is used for
programming). But that is really something for next year. We certainly
won't sell the actual systems since, if we are trading them ourselves,
we'd want to be sure that they don't get overloaded and lose their edge.

So the real point of doing it was to trade the systems and that will,
hopefully, give us more flexibility with developing and selling
Dolphin. So, right now, it's on with D6...

Thanks for the interest.

Best regards,

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
www.object-arts.com

Runar Jordahl-3

Re: Dolphin 6.0

In reply to this post by Andy Bower-3

It was very nice to see a presentation of your product. I hope this
initiative can turn out positive also for Dolphin Smalltalk. My attention
was caught by the diagrams you usein you application.

- Are these diagrams made using some kind of third party tool, like an OCX,
or programmed directly in Smalltalk?

- If you developed them yourself in Smalltalk, are they independent packages
that you will consider including with Dolphin Smalltalk?

- Do the diagrams support printing?

Runar Jordahl

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