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I second Craigs suggestion Technifilter is an outstanding program
with much power in the system testing, and reporting facilities
Regards
Benzie
> Tas was (is?) a dos-based program that would run rings around MetaStock in
> System testing (it actually tested across multiple stocks) and
> explorations at the time. Martin Moore of Dublin, CA was the software
> writer and owner. Used to have a website www.flexsoft.com. Don't know if
> it's still there. Warning - it did take some learning to get to know to
> use the language. These days a better choice is likely TechniFilter Plus.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Daniel Martinez
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 4:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Off-topic C++
>
>
> Guy,
> not sure what you are referencing when you mention +/- 10 or 8
> indicator. Do you mean 10 or 8 digits of accuracy? Looked in
> MicroSoft's BookShelf 99 for "TAS" and searched the Net but couldn't
> find any reference. It sound like you have been programming stock
> database routines for some time. If you don't mind my asking, have you
> made profits using this type of programming? It seems like it would
> take a long time to set up.
>
> Just for your info, that EBAY page you gave is also for the Academic
> version. As for me, I'm not sure I want to go beyond the
> MetaStock/Excel combo. Maybe later I'll get VC++ or Builder, after I
> become an expert at TA. More likely I'll build a tradestation (no pun
> intended) here with 4 monitors, perhaps L2, and trade short-term moves.
> Have already decided on the hardware to use.
>
> Daniel.
>
>
>
> Guy Tann wrote:
>
> My problem is that MetaStock, while now able to perform all of my
> calculations, does it with less precision than other languages. For
> the most part, everything looks fine until we get to a +/- 10
> indicator in our original calculations. MS only calculated a value of
> + or - 8 (two out of the last three occurrences), which has a material
> impact on our system. Because of some of MS' limited computational
> capabilities, some of us are evaluating other programming
> languages.I'm looking at buying Visual Studio 6.0 Professional over
> eBay which will provide me with VB 6.0 Professional as well as Visual
> FoxPro as well as a bunch of other languages (C++ being one of them)
> that I won't use. Since system currently runs under TAS, MetaStock,
> Clipper, and Excel, I have to convert it over to a Y2K compliant
> environment. I had hoped that MS for Windows would have been able to
> handle my requirements.My old Clipper and TAS programs are not Y2K
> compliant and MetaStock doesn't provide me with accurate calculations.
> That leaves me with Excel and other languages. I have everything
> currently programmed in Excel except the MS File Library link. With
> regards to Borland Builder Pro v4, you need to make sure that you can
> use it with the MS Library DLL that provides you access to Equis'
> database. Walter and I were discussing VB and VBA which does support
> the MS DLL. Walter has done a lot of work with Excel and VBA and has
> posted a ton of information here in that regard. I, unfortunately,
> haven't had time to look at it, but will as soon as the kid starts
> back to school. Right now, I've settled on VB, Excel using VBA or
> Visual FoxPro(since our Clipper is a xBase system). I'm trying to
> figure out how to use Excel with VBA because that will minimize any
> coding I have to do. On the other hand, this will limit systems
> testing as I won't have all of my intermediate calculations readily
> available in the database.
>
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