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Animal wrote:
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> Tile your windows with only the title bar showing. You can click on each one as desired.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Myron B. [Bruce] Slomka [SMTP:mslomka@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 1998 9:32 PM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Is MetaStock for Real Traders?
>
> Dennis Lipter wrote:
> >
> > I am a Professional trader and have been using MetaStock for 3 years.
> > Although the program is an adequate platform for creating and charting
> > indicators, it is in the area of the user interface that makes me wonder
> > whether or not the developers of the program actually trade. Here is a
> > list of my gripes.
> >
> > * I trade multiple commodities so during the day I need a fast way to
> > toggle between them without using the Window or File pull down menu.
> > TradeStation allows you to assign buttons on the toolbar to different
> > securities so you can instantly toggle between them.
> >
> > * How about a refresh button so when I update prices during the trading
> > session I do not have to close down all the charts and reopen them to
> > reflect the new prices. Makes sense right!
> >
> > * How about a useful and efficient Paper Trade Mode that advances the
> > chart one day at a time WITHOUT plotting the indicator beyond the
> > current day. Common sense right! You can accomplish this by advancing
> > the Last Date Loaded value in the x-Axis Properties dialog box but that
> > requires way too many mouse clicks.
> >
> > * I plot multiple inner windows in two page side by side layouts for
> > each commodity. Gets a little crowded sometimes. How about a tabbed
> > interface like a spreadsheet with tabs in the bottom that allow you you
> > to flip through each page in a multiple page layout?
> >
> > * I plot the same custom indicator multiple times with different user
> > input values. How about displaying a selected user input value in the
> > chart title bar. For example plotting two moving averages with one
> > titled a "10 period MA" and the other titled a "25 period MA". Makes it
> > less confusing Right!
> >
> > OK, That's it for now.
> >
> > Dennis Lipter
> All Equis has to do is incorporate the ability of MS to use to recognize
> lists of stocks. Then it would be easy to create different lists of
> stock QUICKLY and sreen through them QUICKLY using capabilities already
> incorporated in MS. Having to create separate directories to create
> such temporary lists shorts the program.
>
> Bruce Slomka
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tiling windows is not a solution. Every time you want to change the
makeup of a select list of stocks, you have to reset the tiled windows.
I want the capability of changing my stock list as fast as I can create
an asci list.
TFP 8.1 is a super program. I haven't tried to set up a charting option
; only use it for screening.
Bruce Slomka
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