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Hi Dan...
If you want a macro program, there is one that comes with windows. I
still use 3.11 but I would expect win 95 should have a similar solution.
Regards... John
HARELSDB@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> 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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