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Ed,
I'm also trying to move everything off of DOS. We've ridden that horse
including CP/M and DOS for a quarter century. :) Shortly, I'm going to take
a closer look at VB.
Guy
" If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Ed Montero
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 1:15 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: calculations
Guy, I've been watching your posts and all the headaches you've had to go
through to get your system to work within MS. You've probably already
thought about this, but it would seem to be it would be easier to program a
System Tester (which is what you want out of MS) into your already existing
sytems than trying to get MS tweaked in order to match results.
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: Guy Tann <grt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 12:12 PM
Subject: RE: calculations
>
> Ton,
>
> When I went to bed last night, I started thinking about upgrading to a
dual
> processor 1GHz system to replace this "old" box.
>
> I'm not worried about performance yet. I need to get the system running
> first. Right now, speed is the least of my worries. Accuracy is much
more
> important since we're doing a conversion and the output from MS MUST equal
> the output from our trading system.
>
> Our basic trading system runs quite well in the latest rendition of MS.
We
> ran under MS for DOS until v.6.5.2 (the first MS for Windows version that
> fixed the disk thrashing problem we had). It used to take us
approximately
> 3 to 4 minutes of crunching to do our daily processing (for the S&P) and
> then we had to do the other half in TAS. MS now does it all in less than
30
> seconds. Great improvement.
>
>
> Guy
>
> " If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of A.J. Maas
> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 2:54 PM
> To: Metastock-List
> Subject: Re: calculations
>
> Guy,
>
> It seems that you are pushing the peddle to the iron, to me indicating
that
> all the calculating by Processor and back and forth I/O burstpiping and
> writing
> to MEM, is the "wrong doer". Perhaps in disguise.................see
below.
>
> You must have created a scientific monster ready for the Guiness book...
>
> The Uni here and more uni's elsewhere are also masters in calculations
> "until
> the PC will give up", thus there is still some hope for you left since
that
> still
> greater and faster computers are being developped all the time!!.
>
> Seriously, see if the {at the top} mentioned ways for timing factor in
> performing
> the calculations can be more optimized:
> -software { formulas, see hereafter }
> -hardware { i840 or Server Works III-WorkStation Dual Proc. MoBo,
> 2x +1.13 GHZ processors, +1Gb SDRAM PC133/PC800 RIMM,
> UDMA100, etc. etc.} Esp. the multi-thread capacities
of
> the Dual MoBo
> can be of great advantage here!!.
>
> So there is thus nothing wrong with program or within the gramma of your
> formula's,
> apart from the referenced, eg that what we cannot see {the referenced
> formula's}.
>
> Perhaps that, in that "referenced area" {your other formulas}, is where
you
> can
> explore to see if you can gain more of the above mentioned optimized speed
> {eg by altering their compositions}.
>
> Good luck!!
>
> Regards,
> Ton Maas
> ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Dismiss the ".nospam" bit (including the dot) when replying.
> Homepage http://home.planet.nl/~anthmaas
>
>
> ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> Van: "Guy Tann"
> Aan: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Verzonden: zondag 1 oktober 2000 18:03
> Onderwerp: RE: calculations
>
>
> > J., Don, Ton et al who gave me suggestions about this problem.
> >
> > Thanks for all of the suggestions. I have tried them all, but
> unfortunately
> > they didn't work.
> >
> > This problem has been resolved by cutting and pasting each variable into
> its
> > own indicator, where, albeit slowly, it runs. This is the way I
> originally
> > coded these variables, but decided to combine them into 2 indicators.
> Wrong
> > choice as getting this to run has taken me a couple of weeks. Granted I
> > spent 80% of my time trying to get MS to work as advertised. Like the
> > subtraction problem, I just gave up and programmed around it.
> >
> > Now don't ask me why it was necessary to split my two indicators with 9
> > variables each into 18 separate indicators and why I've encountered this
> > very same problem with the next couple of indicators I checked. It's
> beyond
> > me. It just must be another quirk of MS (among the several I've
> encountered
> > during this conversion).
> >
> > I have other indicators that include several variables and they work
> without
> > a problem. Again, I seem to be learning my way around MS and those
areas
> > that don't function as advertised, but it's taking a long time. This
> > conversion should have been done a month or two ago, but at least we're
> > getting close.
> >
> > Thanks again to everyone. I have high hopes that I can complete the
final
> > 10 variables today.
> >
> > Guy
> >
> > " If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of j seed
> > Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 7:41 AM
> > To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: calculations
> >
> > Guy,
> > Ver.7.0 is a real "Jethro" when it comes to spelling. It doesn't like to
> > have variable names split onto more than one line. It may help to change
> > your variable statements to:
> > COMHX03:= ( FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") -
> > Ref(FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") , -3 )) / 3;
> >
> > This may seem insignificant but I've had formulas that would only work
> this
> > way.
> >
> > J.
> >
> > >From: "Guy Tann" <grt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Reply-To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >To: "Metastock User Group" <metastock-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Subject: calculations
> > >Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 00:41:51 -0700
> > >
> > >Don,
> > >
> > >Here's part of what I had in one indicator that I called COMHX01X09.
> > >
> > >COMHX03:= ( FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") - Ref(
> > >FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") , -3 )) / 3;
> > >
> > >COMHX04:= ( FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") - Ref(
> > >FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") , -4 )) / 4;
> > >
> > >COMHX05:= ( FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") - Ref(
> > >FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") , -5 )) / 5;
> > >
> > >COMHX06:= ( FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") - Ref(
> > >FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") , -6 ) ) / 6;
> > >
> > >COMHX07:= ( FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") - Ref(
> > >FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") , -7 ) ) / 7;
> > >
> > >COMHX08:= ( FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") - Ref(
> > >FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") , -8 ) ) / 8;
> > >
> > >COMHX09:= ( FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") - Ref(
> > >FmlVar("COMH-MXX","COMHMXX") , -9 ) ) / 9;
> > >COMHX09;
> > >
> > >The only thing missing is COMHX01 and COMHX02. When running, it works
> > >sporadically or not at all. I cut and pasted COMHX01 and COMHX02 into
> > >their
> > >own indicators (which is how I tested them in the first place) and they
> > >work
> > >fine. I'm now moving all of these back into individual indicators. I
> have
> > >no idea why this didn't work since I only had 9 variables. The COMX09;
> > >entry was strictly for plotting purposes so I could check out the
> detailed
> > >results (remember, I'm doing a conversion here and need to verify
> > >calculations to 4 decimal places).
> > >
> > >After verifying my calculation results, I delete the final COMHX09
> plotting
> > >entry. Anyway, why they don't work when contained in one indicator and
> do
> > >work when cut and pasted into their own indicator, I have absolutely no
> > >idea.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >
> > >Guy
> > >
> > >" If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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