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Hi Vitaly,
I wish I could say this is a surprise....I tried the AIQ Market Expert
that Frank so highly recommends, and liked it, but was unwilling to go
to the trouble of converting all my data into the 256 issues per folder
format. (Because I bought MS6 first)
I see the ads in IBD literally SCREAMING the "superiority" of MS 6.0,
but as an owner....I'm underwhelmed....It's buggy, and many of the
canned indicators are faulty....I found out too late that the point and
figure charting is drawn COMPLETELY wrong (in comparison to the
Dorsey-Wright-Chartcraft equivalents) and even the Win95 interface is
botched ! You can't just bring the chart window forward by clicking on
it..You have to close everything first, and on and on and on.... It's a
resource hog and slow as molasses.
The next MS6 version should be a FIX.....NOT AN UPGRADE !
OTOH, I bought the Technifilter DOS program a month ago, and I love it.
It's such a pleasure to have a FAST functional program without bugs and
hassles, and I understand that the Win95 upgrade is due out this month.
Now that we know the direction Equis is going, this makes my choices of
upgrades just that much easier.......
In fact, the best thing about Metastock is this EXCELLENT group of
guys/gals ! I just wish I would have known I didn't have to be a MS
owner to be a member !
Dick
Vitaly Larichev wrote:
>
> >....this means that the ancient 255 maximum securities per
> > directory will continue for 3rd-party data providers unless they knuckle ....
>
> It also means that I who use and will use QPlus as a data vendor, will have
> even less incentive to upgrade from MetaStock 5.11 . Forget about my $100,
> Equis!
>
> It's really a funny decision. I thought an integration of charting/analysis
> and the data stream (including efficient tools for data handling) is most
> crucial issue for the next step of trading software development. They say I
> am wrong, ... well, but these days my filters reject Apple (AAPL) stock. The
> story sounds familiar.
>
> This is one more reason why it's so hard to make money in the market - you
> never know what to expect from a company's management :-) .
>
> With (some) cheers,
> Vitaly
>
> derek b wrote:
> >
> > Gary Lyben of Quotes Plus reports on SI today that Equis has reneged on
> > their promise to assist data providers. After promising for months that
> > the new Equis data-file structure would be made available free of charge
> > to data providers, Equis now is demanding a royalty kick-back fee for
> > the data file format.
> >
> > This is the same nonsense that Omega has extorted. DTN's new real time
> > service will be unusable by Tradestation users because DTN refuses to
> > pay the royalty.
> >
> > DTN, like QP, has attempted to carve out a value niche among data
> > providers. I am extremely disappointed to see that Equis is not
> > cooperating with data providers in providing the new data file format
> > free of charge to the data vendors.
> >
> > In plain speak, this means that the ancient 255 maximum securities per
> > directory will continue for 3rd-party data providers unless they knuckle
> > under and cough up the extortion fee.
> >
> > Lousy business decision, Equis.
> >
> > Derek
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