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At 00:39 11/03/99 -0700, Augie Wong wrote:
>I would appreciate your comment on Stockwiz's WizPro.
>From a 2 1/2 years customer who left for Quote Plus (no Canada)
>- Is it easy to use as data source for Metastock ?
Depends. There are 2 methods, one is indirect (supported), the other is
direct (not supported anymore)
(a) Indirect - Requires maintenance of 2 databases : stockwiz + MS. Import
into Stockwiz, export to ASCII, use Equis Downloader to import. I don't
think this does qualify easy or simple. 2000 sec/dir compatible.
(b) Direct - TXT2MSTK Dos utility will let you update MS 255 sec/dir
directories directly
I was using (b). Neither is very fast. I wrote once a MSFL demo in Visual
Basic and my amateur code was twice as fast as TXT2MSTK (altogether was
making sure the Metastock data were cleaner).
>- How does it's SAL programming language stack up in terms of learning
curve, execution speed >and functionality ?
Stockwiz Dos was kind of built around the SAL. It was possible to schedule
any script on any database. Well you know what progress is about. Stockwiz
98 does now support predefined USA and Canada databases only and scripts
cannot be scheduled anymore.
The 98 Windoze transition is when I left Stockwiz, since I was left alone
with my not upgradeable European databases. A killer product, definitely !
Other than that, yes SAL learning curve is steep (doc has been continuously
poor and incomplete). yes it is fast. yes it is not a very rich set of
technical indicators, but if you can program well, there is eg no problem
creating/calculating symbols programmatically. SAL can also handle multiple
securities by the same script. Metastock cannot do neither. Who can besides
SAL ?
>- Is their end of day data clean ?
I don't know about Canada. i-Soft has always had problems to deliver
correct volumes. A few months before I left, they decided for two
deliveries : early with incomplete volumes, second with final ones. The
second delivery was way too late.
Symbol addition/modification/delisting - USA additions via fundamental data
only (once a month). Modifications and delistings are not provided.
Canada/USA indices/Mutual funds = no service.
Splits - Once a week for the USA (not real - was more often once a month).
Canada = no service (unless canadian stocks never split. i-Soft file was
changing date, not contents :).
Alain
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