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At 08:53 PM 10/16/97 -0400, George Gordon wrote:
>Thanks for your message at 06:02 PM 10/14/97 -0400, Frank B. Gaylord. Your
>message was:
>>At 12:04 PM 10/14/97 -0400, George Gordon wrote:
>>>Dear Sirs:
>>>
>>>I am attempting to run a series of explorations to winnow a large universe
>>>of securities to a select few. Is there an easy way within MetaStock 6.5 to
>>>make a list of the results of an exploration to use as the input for
>>>subsequent explorations. I have perused the list and find nothing on this
>>>subject, yet my repeated readings of manual have revealed nothing on this
>>>topic. This abilitiy is so primal to a program like MetaStock that I must
>>>be overlooking the obvious means to accomplish this.
>>>
>>>If not possible to do within MetaStock 6.5 (which would be a startling
>>>ommission), then what alternatives exist beyond manual lookup of the
>>>securities of interest and selecting them through the securities selection
>>>dialog of subsequent explorations. I tried highlighting the exploration
>>>results and pasting to a EXCEL, but obtained only garbage.
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>George Gordon
>>>lrdbyron@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>George -
>>
>> I'm afraid that MetaStock 6.5 will not do as you ask, what I call
>>"Nested Filtering." No version of MetaStock that I am aware of has ever
>>been able to do Nested Filtering.
>>
>> EQUIS used to, and for all I know still does, sell a program that does
>>do Nested Filtering of MetaStock data. Its name is TechniFilter, by RTR
>>Software. Should you choose to visit it, its URL is:
>>http://www.rtrsoftware.com.
>>
>> I have no idea what it will take EQUIS to see the Sun in the sky and
>>include Nested Filtering in future versions of MetaStock.
>>
>>
>>-- Frank :-)
>>
>>High Return on Investment using Technical Analysis
>>http://www.usinternet.com/users/fbg/
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>Great homepage Frank,
>
>Is TechniFilter an addon to MetaStock or a standalone competitor?
>
>
>
>George Gordon
>lrdbyron@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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George -
TechniFilter is a standalone program. Its author, Clay Burch, sold his
first piece of Financial Software in 1979 and has done considerable work
for Dow Jones News Retrieval and others since. I do not know when EQUIS
started selling TechniFilter, but do know that they began to offer it
because it complimented MetaStock. It filtered MetaStock data. After
checking the EQUIS Web Site, I see that they no longer sell TechniFilter.
In my opinion, TechniFilter Plus 7.1, the older DOS version that I use
(RTR Software has come out with a Windows version), is superior to
MetaStock's Explorer. I appreciate the speed with which it does its
calculations, that it can be fully automated to do more filters than I
would ever have the need to do, unattended, plus the Nested Filtering that
I mentioned in my earlier note to you.
I know that MetaStock cannot be all things to all people, but I do hope
that they soon offer the speed, automation and Nested Filtering in Explorer
that TechniFilter now does. In other words, make "seamless," "flexible"
and "powerful" terms I can associate with MetaStock in other than the
graphic context, in what it does with and how it handles data.
-- Frank :-)
High Return on Investment using Technical Analysis
http://www.usinternet.com/users/fbg/
Minnesota Long Distance Canoe Racing
http://www.usinternet.com/users/fbg/mnlong/
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