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Lionel
I've got our entire system programmed into Excel and interfaced to my
MetaStock data via OLE. The only thing left for me to do, is to start
programming in our trading logic. I had borrowed Visual Basic 4
Professional and Microsoft's Mastering Visual Basic 4 from a friend of mine
to evaluate. Played with it a little and then discovered that I needed
Visual Basic 5 to integrate with my MetaStock data.
Bought that last weekend at the local computer fair. What a bargain! $49
for Visual Basic 5.0 Professional and $15 for the Mastering Visual Basic
5.0. Should have bought my own copy a long time ago. Of course, I already
owned my own copies of VB 2.0, VB 3.0, VBA in Office 97 Professional, etc.
I tried to order a DLL from MetaStock via the Net two weeks ago. Haven't
heard hide nor hair from them so I guess I better send them an e-mail. I
think that with this DLL, I'll be able to bypass the Downloader and access
the MS database direct. Sure will make it easier to be able to actually
control my own processing. I'm now thinking of replacing the Excel side
also, and just rewriting our Clipper code, TAS and MetaStock for DOS, and
moving it all into VB 5.0 if this DLL interface works. That's easier said
than done with an 8 year old on Summer vacation :).
Regards
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Lionel Issen
Sent: Friday, June 19, 1998 1:12 PM
To: Guy Tann
Cc: Metastock
Subject: Re: OLE Problem Solved - I think
Guy:
Your postings are always worth reading. I fully agree with this one.
I think that the big problem with Equis is that they started up with the
old Compuserve(?) data file format. They have been unwilling or unable to
change to a better and easier to use format. I download from Telescan, the
downloads after a holiday are always pathetically slow. When I spoke to
Telescan they told me that there are 2 data formats that have this problem,
Equis and another (I forget the name). I'd also like to have a better data
management system with better and more flexible connection to Excel and an
interface with visual basic. A visual basic interface would enable us to
develop better indicators/explorations/systems, and do better testing.
Regards
Lionel
At 09:01 AM 6/19/98 -0700, you wrote:
>In the just received Spring 1998 Equis Monitor (Summer Solstice is
>tomorrow), I noticed a FAQ question about problems with the link between
>MetaStock and Equis. Even thought it didn't directly apply to my case, I
>tried their recommendations. It worked.
>
>Needed to highlight the entire 1,000 rows by 7 columns in the spreadsheet
>prior to copying the plot over from MetaStock.
>
>Now, if only MetaStock could perform my calculations, I'd be in pig heaven
>:). I'm going to give this latest release a try to see if they have
>improved their computational abilities yet. Wouldn't it be wonderful if I
>could really do just about everything between Excel and MetaStock.
>
>Regards
>
Lionel Issen
lissen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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