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<br>Steven Hendlin, a clinical psychologist and author of the just-published
book "The Disciplined Online Investor", offers five tips on how to control
the inner noise of your thoughts and
<br>feelings while managing your own investments and:<b><font size=+2></font></b>
<p><b><font size=+2>Trading Stocks Online</font></b>
<p>1. <b><font color="#660000">Shuttle between inner and outer.</font></b>
Develop the habit of shuttling back and forth between the data on the screen
and your thoughts and feelings. Notice your inner dialogue as you
<br>react to changes on the monitor or news events on television.
For every three parts of outward focus on data and information, focus time
on your thoughts and emotional reactions.
<p>2. <b><font color="#660000">Identify and combat all negative thinking</font></b>.
Notice which negative thoughts tend to arise the most. What events
trigger these thoughts? Imagine another way to interpret the
<br>events so that the associated negative thoughts can be neutralized
or made positive.
<p>3. <b><font color="#660000">Mediate all-or-nothing thinking.</font></b>
Don't be overly optimistic or pessimistic. Find steps in between
the end points of one extreme and the other. When you can't see them,
ask
<br>someone you trust to help.
<p>4. <b><font color="#660000">Refuse to allow strong emotion to
dictate your course of action. </font></b> Whether you feel exhilaration,
excitement or fear, don't make any trade until it has been processed through
<br>your critical mind. Walk away if you trade under the influence
of strong emotion.
<p>5. <b><font color="#660000">Have a plan.</font></b> Start
the trading day with a plan, and stick to it. Decide how many trades
you are going to make if conditions are favorable. Limit the number
of trades and amount of
<br>capital you are willing to risk in any one trade and for the day as
a whole. Know how much you lose in a week, a month, and three months,
with adequate capital to continue trading.
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=860535314-17072000>In
this case, version 7.02 will not work any differently than earlier versions of
the program.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ken Hunt</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Programming Manager</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Equis
International</FONT> </P>
<DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Jean-Roland Quastana
[mailto:jean-roland.quastana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, July 14,
2000 4:44 PM<BR><B>To:</B> metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: What
are the FIXES in 7.02<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>I made the test in v7.01 and MS still gives an "division
by zero" error msg...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>I should receive the v7.02 in the next few
days.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>Jean-Roland</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:vitaly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"; title=vitaly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Vitaly
Larichev</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";
title=metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, July 14, 2000 7:03 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: What are the FIXES in
7.02</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Guy,<BR><BR>Much faster performance with v. 7.02 is really
great news! Thanks Equis!<BR><BR>I used to complain about MS's lackluster job
in previous versions. One of the<BR>reasons was an unfortunate way chosen to
code "IF" logic: it would calculate <BR>ALL expressions before checking the
branching condition, i.e. in IF(A>0,B,C) <BR>it calculates A,B,C before
checking if A>0, although only one of B and C <BR>values is really
needed due to A>0 condition. In the following example<BR><BR>If(2>1,1,
1/(1-1))<BR><BR>it would give an error trying without need to calculate
1/(1-1) . If the change<BR>you noticed was also due to corrected "IF" logic,
it would save us a lot<BR>of time in explorations, etc. by nesting "IF"
conditions in such a way that<BR>the first one, fast and easy, would eliminate
a majority of candidates whereas<BR>others, more time consuming would deal
with much smaller number of stocks,<BR>sort of sequential approach.<BR><BR>So,
it's a long preface to ask you make an indicator with the formula above and
see<BR>if it doesn't anymore give the "division by zero" error in v. 7.02 as
it does in<BR>my 6.52. It would take a few seconds of your time while
would be of great help<BR>to me to decide on upgrading.<BR><BR>Thanks a
lot.<BR><BR>Cheers, Vitaly<BR><BR><BR>Guy Tann wrote:<BR><BR>>
Ken,<BR>><BR>> I thought I'd send you guys a compliment about 7.01 after
all the brickbats<BR>> you've received here.<BR>><BR>> I finally got
around to installing it yesterday (I've probably had it for a<BR>> few
months) and the install went smoothly. Take that to mean no
problems.<BR>> It also converted our own indicators without missing a beat,
unlike a few<BR>> versions ago that ate them for lunch during the
conversion (necessitating a<BR>> complete reprogramming effort and about 2
months worth of work to completely<BR>> retest everything and run parallel
for a couple of months more).<BR>><BR>> Since we don't do any charting,
I was more interested in the calculation<BR>> speed of the new
version. Version 6.5.2 solved a few problems for us that<BR>>
prevented us from using MS ever since our DOS conversion. In fact, we
still<BR>> used the DOS version since all prior Windows versions couldn't
handle our<BR>> calculations. In addition to poor memory utilization,
the DOS version was<BR>> able to use a virtual disk whereas the Windows
version used our hard drive<BR>> like a thrashing machine. I probably
exchanged over 100 e-mails with tech<BR>> support before giving up. I
did purchase every upgrade and went through<BR>> this conversion too many
times to count.<BR>><BR>> I'm happy to say that v7.01 version blows
v6.5.2 away. Calculations that<BR>> used to take almost a minute in
v6.5.2 are done in 6-8 seconds in v7.01.<BR>> For our work, that's
absolutely fantastic. I'm starting to get excited<BR>> here, as we
might be able to use System Tester for the first time since the<BR>> old
DOS days. We have already replaced our old DOS version of MS as well
as<BR>> TAS. If this final conversion works, I'll be able to put my
Clipper<BR>> programs to bed as well and we'll be running under one
system. After<BR>> umpteen years with Equis, we finally bought a
second package for my brother<BR>> since we were finally able to use it in
a production mode.<BR>><BR>> Now that we seem to have arrived at some
level of stability, I plan on<BR>> moving our Intermediate Term System into
MS. I'll probably need to ask a<BR>> few questions about variable
handling and the previous. With a little bit<BR>> of luck, I might be
able to move my final DOS programs into MS and finally<BR>> settle on one
system and one database.<BR>><BR>> Now, after saying all of those nice
things, I looked up the previous<BR>> function in the index and it pointed
me to page 258. There is no previous<BR>> function on page 258, or
259 for that matter. Did I get a bad manual or is<BR>> this a
misprint? If you could, I'd appreciate your pointing me in the<BR>>
direction of the previous function in the manual.<BR>><BR>> Thanks
again,<BR>><BR>> Guy<BR>><BR>> Paranoia...you only have to be
right once to make it all worthwhile!<BR>><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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From: PD Manager <pdmanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE: What are the FIXES in 7.02
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:15:57 -0600
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Michel:
The zoom box problem has been fixed in 7.02.
The last day displayed problem has been fixed in 7.02.
The name and symbol sorting problem has been fixed in 7.02.
The crosshair / data window crash was not fixed. We have had difficulty in
reproducing the problem here. This problem is still being evaluated.
Your frustrations with the System Tester have not been addressed in this
version (7.02). Design changes to the System Tester are currently being
evaluated for implementation into future versions. At this point, however,
I don't know for sure which future version will contain any changes to
System Tester.
Ken Hunt
Programming Manager
Equis International
-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Amelinckx [mailto:Michel.Amelinckx@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 11:25 AM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: What are the FIXES in 7.02
Now I know why you get these problems with your product not being well
tested. Although everybody has his strong and his weak sites, but if you
have people like this testing your product I can understand it.
Check this and you would talk differently;
Try to use the zoom box but look CAREFULLY where in the chart you actually
zoomed then you will look it is not correct.
Try to change LAST DAY DISPLAYED in the X axis properties if you look
carefully you will see it doesn't work
Try to switch between sort by Name and sort by symbol in CHOOSE SECURITY A
COUPLE OF TIMES and will see it's not working
Having the CROSSHAIR and DATA WINDOW open would cause crashes at some points
(especially if doing something wrong)
All these problems are on a w2k machine so don't know about win98
Although I must say that it's true that speed of system tester has been
improved, but what good does it do that you CAN'T ENTER / EXIT your TRADES
THROUGH STOP ORDERS. Or am I the only trader here using systems based on
stop orders and not entering through OPEN/CLOSE.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of PD Manager
> Sent: vrijdag 14 juli 2000 17:02
> To: 'metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: What are the FIXES in 7.02
>
>
> I'm very happy to hear that things are working well.
> Hopefully, we can
> continue to make improvements in stability and efficiency.
>
> Just a quick warning about PREV. It can be a very intense calculation
> (depending on the complexity of the formula itself). The
> formula editor
> will analyze your formula when it is entered and saved and in
> some cases
> will warn you of this. You may see all of those performance gains in
> calculation speed quickly disappear.
>
> Ken Hunt
> Programming Manager
> Equis International
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Tann [mailto:grt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 11:52 PM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: What are the FIXES in 7.02
>
>
> Ken,
>
> I thought I'd send you guys a compliment about 7.01 after all
> the brickbats
> you've received here.
>
> I finally got around to installing it yesterday (I've
> probably had it for a
> few months) and the install went smoothly. Take that to mean
> no problems.
> It also converted our own indicators without missing a beat,
> unlike a few
> versions ago that ate them for lunch during the conversion
> (necessitating a
> complete reprogramming effort and about 2 months worth of
> work to completely
> retest everything and run parallel for a couple of months more).
>
> Since we don't do any charting, I was more interested in the
> calculation
> speed of the new version. Version 6.5.2 solved a few
> problems for us that
> prevented us from using MS ever since our DOS conversion. In
> fact, we still
> used the DOS version since all prior Windows versions
> couldn't handle our
> calculations. In addition to poor memory utilization, the
> DOS version was
> able to use a virtual disk whereas the Windows version used
> our hard drive
> like a thrashing machine. I probably exchanged over 100
> e-mails with tech
> support before giving up. I did purchase every upgrade and
> went through
> this conversion too many times to count.
>
> I'm happy to say that v7.01 version blows v6.5.2 away.
> Calculations that
> used to take almost a minute in v6.5.2 are done in 6-8
> seconds in v7.01.
> For our work, that's absolutely fantastic. I'm starting to
> get excited
> here, as we might be able to use System Tester for the first
> time since the
> old DOS days. We have already replaced our old DOS version
> of MS as well as
> TAS. If this final conversion works, I'll be able to put my Clipper
> programs to bed as well and we'll be running under one system. After
> umpteen years with Equis, we finally bought a second package
> for my brother
> since we were finally able to use it in a production mode.
>
> Now that we seem to have arrived at some level of stability, I plan on
> moving our Intermediate Term System into MS. I'll probably
> need to ask a
> few questions about variable handling and the previous. With
> a little bit
> of luck, I might be able to move my final DOS programs into
> MS and finally
> settle on one system and one database.
>
> Now, after saying all of those nice things, I looked up the previous
> function in the index and it pointed me to page 258. There
> is no previous
> function on page 258, or 259 for that matter. Did I get a
> bad manual or is
> this a misprint? If you could, I'd appreciate your pointing me in the
> direction of the previous function in the manual.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Guy
>
> Paranoia...you only have to be right once to make it all worthwhile!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of PD Manager
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 10:01 AM
> To: 'metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: What are the FIXES in 7.02
>
> Here is where you can find a list of fixes and enhancements for 7.02.
> Please note that the list for 7.02 Professional has NOT been
> posted yet
> (although the listed location is accurate). The 7.02
> Professional list will
> be posted when CDs are available sometime next week.
>
> The list of enhancements and bug fixes for MetaStock 7.02
> (EOD) can be found
> at:
> http://www.equis.com/customer/support/files/02222000-STD
> If you are running MetaStock 7.01 this can be viewed by selecting
> Tools|MetaStock Updates
>
>
> The list for MetaStock Professional 7.02 can be found at:
> http://www.equis.com/customer/support/files/02222000-PRO
> If you are running MetaStock Professional 7.01 this can be viewed by
> selecting Tools|MetaStock Updates
>
> These lists may not absolutely identify all the problems that
> were fixed.
> Many times, one bug fix will repair a problem that showed
> itself in several
> different ways and was therefore reported in several different ways by
> users. It is also possible that we were not able to fix
> absolutely all
> problems reported by users. Occasionally, we will have difficulty
> duplicating some of the problems reported. In those cases,
> we had no choice
> but to leave the problem alone until we are able to gather enough
> information to duplicate and ultimately fix the problem.
>
> Ken Hunt
> Programming Manager
> Equis International
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yngvi Hardarson [mailto:hardy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 8:22 AM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: What are the FIXES in 7.02
> Importance: High
>
>
>
> Ken!
>
> Many thanks for your explanation. As I reported a couple of bugs later
> verified to me by Equis support can you provide a list of the fixes
> incorporated in v/7.0 pro as compared with v/7.0 pro?
>
> Many thanks,
> Yngvi
> hardy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of PD Manager
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 19:47
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 7.02 Update Policy
>
>
> In response to the numerous questions regarding the update
> policy for 7.02:
>
> Normally, I have no detailed knowledge of update or upgrade
> policies. I am
> responsible for programming and testing of our products.
>
> In this case, I wanted to be able to give you an accurate
> answer so I have
> been in touch with the sales department here at Equis.
>
> A free update to MetaStock version 7.02 will be available for
> all registered
> owners of MetaStock version 7.x. Equis will also provide
> free shipping via
> US. mail. This is for both end-of-day and Professional versions of
> MetaStock. Customers should contact Equis Sales at (800)-882-3040 or
> sales@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> We apologize for the recent problems encountered with earlier
> versions of
> our product. We pushed them out the door a little earlier
> than we would
> normally do. As I stated before, I hope that 7.02 solves many of the
> problems that our users have encountered. I can't guarantee
> perfection, but
> I can promise that it is an improvement.
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
>
> Please remember that the product is not yet officially
> released. It is
> currently being duplicated in preparation for release.
>
> Ken Hunt
> Programming Manager
> Equis International
>
>
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