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look at windows on Wallstreet pro 5.1, most of your formulas will transfer.
keep MSWIN for charting and indicator building.
Richard Estes
-----Original Message-----
From: HARELSDB@xxxxxxx <HARELSDB@xxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, September 05, 1998 1:52 AM
Subject: Testing systems against multiple securities
>At the risk of reopening old wounds, I would like to ask for some
>recommendations regarding strategies for testing my trading systems against
>multiple secuities. I trade stocks using end of day data.
>
>I have seen discussion on this list regarding programs that can be used to
>automate Metastock so that system tests can be performed against multiple
>securities. I have also seen discussions of technical analysis software
>packages that have this feature built in to them. I am at a point where I
>would like to be able to quickly and easily test trading systems against
>multiple securities. What are the pros and cons of these two alternatives:
>
>1. Spending a hundred bucks on a second software package that will
automate
>Metastock's testing facilities and taking the time to learn the second
>package.
>
>2. Spending 2 or 3 hundred bucks on a software package that has the
ability
>to test multiple securities built into it?
>
>Areas where discussion would be useful to me include:
>
>1. Are secondary programs easy to learn. How long would it take for me to
>figure out how and set the system up to test multiple securities.
(Although
>others on the list might disagree, I like to think I am a pretty bright
guy.)
>2. Do software packages that can test multiple securities have a look and
>feel similar to Metastock so that it wouldn't take much time to learn the
>program?
>3. Metastock is very powerful in terms of being able to write your own
>formulas. Would I be making a compromise in terms of the sophistication of
>the systems I would be able to test using a technical analysis package that
>has the ability to test multiple securities built into it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dan
>Pocatello, ID USA
>
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