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This is not a must. Both Flexsoft TAS and Omega TradeStation do offer a
Pascal-look trader dedicated language extendable by "standard" Pascal.
Metastock cannot be extended by Visual Basic code : an interesting paradox,
since VB(A) is supposed to be the Microsoft recommanded SOHO programming
language, and Metastock is showing the Office sticker.
Part of the rationale is that such applications (TA softwares) just cannot
get rid of good old DLLs. They are top notch performance vs the newest
technologies VB is proposing.
Anyway, I do certainly prefer the Pascal-look extended by Pascal than the
"limited language" gap to C DLL's. This is way too dichotomic :(.
Alain
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At 10:22 5/11/99 -0600, Tom Strickland wrote:
>Daniel,
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>You can't have your ice cream and your money back too! :-) Either you
>must use a simple but limited language such as MetaStock's System Tester or
>you must use a standard programming language such as C++, Basic, etc.
>Unfortunately, it does take time to learn a programming language, but there
>seems to be no way around it. If there were, someone would have come up
>with one that vastly simplifies the standard languages used for general
>programming.
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>MetaStock's approach seems to be better than Omega Research's to deal with
>more complex systems. Based on previous postings, I gather that the new
>MetaStock Version 7.0 will retain the System Tester but allow us to
>supplement it with more complex instructions written in a compatible,
>standard programming language of our choice. By contrast, Omega Research
>uses its EasyLanguage. It appears to me that it is much more complex than
>System Tester and it's expensive (~$2000). Thus, you have to spend a lot of
>money to buy it and then spend lots of time learning to use it. Neither
>System Tester nor a full programming language is that expensive, and you
>don't have to spend lots of time learning unless you want to do complex
>systems.
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>At least, that's the way I see it based upon what we have been told about
>the soon-to-be-available MetaStock Version 7.0. BTW, I have no personal
>interest in Equis except as a MetaStock user, but if they would like to
>send me a large check for this plug, I'll cash it.
>
>Tom
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>At 07:08 PM 11/4/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>> Maybe when I'm not full-time trading, not system testing, not
>>learning new TA methods, not learning Elliot Wave... I have been
>>tracking a (much smaller) group of stocks delayed and this is definitely a
>>way to spot moving stocks during the day. Just my 2¢,
>>Daniel.
>> Walter Lake wrote: Don What you say makes perfect sense ... the installed
>>base of VB and Excel is
>>huge. What is this "Power Basic" nonsense to mainstream users ... just more
>>"not really being helpful stuff" to confuse and complicate the issue? Let
>>me know when your program is ready. I'd be glad to work with someone who
>>is trying not "trying". Best regards Walter
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