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Re:Adios Metastock: Bitching about Metastock



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At 10:06 PM 8/11/98 , you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have been lurking this email group for weeks and have contributed 
>several postings.
>
>>From my observations and drawing a comparison to other Users Groups and 
>Email/Newsgroups for trading, this list is just the 'bitchers' among MS 
>users; or else Equis overstates the number of software packages that 
>they have sold.  If professional traders of greater numbers like Al T. 
>were using this product you would be hearing from 20 or 30 seasoned pros 
>instead of 5 or 6; or perhaps those pros don't waste their time on this 
>email group --- for obvious reasons.
>
>Adios,
>
>Jim Martin
>A 25 year futures trader.
>  
>
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>>From: "Richard Siletti" <richieds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: Re: Bitching about Metastock
>>Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:59:01 -0400
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>>Metastock is a good product but it does have some major faults which 
>Equis
>>has been either unwilling or unable to address. The inability to system 
>test
>>a block of stocks makes this feature largely useless to the average 
>trader.
>>As for me, I simply can't understand the inability replace the old DOS
>>macros. It appears that they have gotten a bit stale. Reminds me of how
>>Compuserve used to be back in the $6.00 an hr. days. This sort of
>>complaining went on all the time back in their forums with no responses 
>from
>>Compuserve. Today they are begging for business. I'm not saying Equis 
>is in
>>that category but keep in mind that the people that frequent this list 
>are
>>the harder core users and their complaints are probably legit.
>>
>>
>>Richie
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Patrick Gamble <pgamble@xxxxxxxxx>
>>To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Date: Friday, August 07, 1998 2:37 PM
>>Subject: Bitching about Metastock
>>
>>
>>>Of course Equis should take note of their user community, as
>>>good business practice. What that doesn't mean is that the
>>>loudest and rudest are right.
>>>
>>>What I was objecting to was the increasingly strident tone of
>>>the posts about the company. I'm glad to see that the company
>>>is setting up channels for voices to be heard.
>>>
>>>I need all the concentration I have to trade successfully, so now
>>>I'll shut up.
>>>
>>>Good trading.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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