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Guy,
I'm impressed, maybe old dogs can learn new tricks after all <G>.
JimG
----- Original Message -----
From: Guy Tann <grt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Metastock <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 12:48 AM
Subject: Much to my surprise, a success story!
> Thanks to everyone's input and making me go back and revisit MS for
Windows.
> Using PREV to Self Reference Formulas, I was able to add the missing link
> and perform ALL of my calculations within MS for Windows.
>
> I'm now completely live in MetaStock, albeit I still have Bonds separate
> from my S&Ps. Now what I have to do is pull the Bonds and the S&Ps
together
> in 1 chart and start plugging my rules into System Tester.
>
> I'm really shocked at how little work was necessary to convert my modified
> functions over to the ones I have running in TAS.
>
> So let me sum this up. With support from Ton Maas and Equis Support, I
was
> able to redo the failed conversion of my DOS indicators and get my DOS
> system up and running under MS for Windows. That took about 4 hours once
I
> realized I had to delete the fouled up output from the first conversion
> attempt. Next, I was able to add my TAS calculations to MS for Windows in
> approximately 4 more hours and verify that the output matched my TAS
output.
> It helped that I still had all of my output debugging files still being
> generated in TAS, so the information was there to check without doing any
> more TAS programming.
>
> OK, I'm sold so far. I was able to actually do some programming in MS and
> make it work in record time! Again it helped in that all I had to do was
> copy the code from my TAS script and input it into Indicator Builder. The
> new (compared to DOS MS) programming syntax made my life substantially
> easier. I'm planning on going back over my code, add variables (according
> to MS this will speed things up) and replace all of the old style code
with
> stuff I can understand. It's so much easier to use things like
mathematical
> operators and parenthesis rather than the old mul(div(sub(add(......
>
> Now, my next step will be to check out System Tester and see if I can
> program in my trading logic. If I can, I will be more than happy.
>
> Now for the one negative. Using the PREV technique appears to be quite
> inefficient. It used to take approximately 3 seconds to load my Chart
> without these new calculations. By adding these new calculations in a new
> Inner Window, it takes 23 seconds just for these calculations (using drag
> and drop for the new indicator into an Inner Window). When I load a chart
> that contains both sets of calculations, it takes substantially longer, 45
> seconds.
>
> It looks like I'm better off loading the chart without the new
calculations,
> then drag and drop those from the indicator for a total of 25 seconds to
> load versus the combined 45 seconds. These speed comparisons are for a
> system running on a PII-400 with 64Mb RAM. I'll probably just let it
grind
> on for the 45 seconds while I attempt to speed everything up.
>
> Regards
>
> Guy
> grt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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