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It's obvious that Equis' market research determined that the majority of
Metastock users are "Black Box" users, and that all they want is a
stock-picking expert out of the box (...why so many new experts in the
latest upgrade?) This may be true, and a reason why most negative criticism
from the system design community falls on deaf ears. I think Metastock
needs to take a poll of what interest there is in supporting a separate,
more powerful version of their software that addresses the concerns of
system writers, and not just "magic ball" investors. They could charge
$500-$1,000 for an upgrade, but make it OPEN and powerful and full of the
things serious system designers want. They already have a pretty front-end,
so why not develop a good back-end and charge the users who want it what
it's worth? It's already proven they don't want to spend the money to do
an upgrade like this, so maybe this would give them an incentive?
Dave D.
ddefina@xxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: yahoochat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:yahoochat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Apr 20, 2001 12:48 PM
To: Metastockusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Metastockusers] Re: System Tester-the future?
Metastock is unusual for TA software in that it has unusually devoted
users. Regardless of any comparisons with the competition, I cannot
help but see that so MANY users on many usergroups and bulletin
boards are not pleased with Equis' commercial policy decisions.
The decision re: the systems tester is quite simply not sensible
business practise. Neither is the charging for what is really only a
minor upgrade / bug fix collection i.e. v7.2. These are policy
decisions - in saying that the "encouragement" to move to Reuters
Datalink is natural and expected as they are the new owners.
Nevertheless, any future decision to restrict the service to an
Equis/Reuters datafeed would have users leaving Metastock when the
came around to upgrading their TA software.
I cannot help but think that Reuters/Equis is being very foolish -
when a company buys another corporation they also purchase
their "good will" - an apt term which does describe what they get
very well. And in terms of Equis, part of what Reuters paid for is
that Metastock is unusual for TA software in that it has unusually
devoted users. They are squandering their own investment if this
continues because they are dominant in TA in theie price bracket and
whatever extent they depend on existing users' return business would
more than for other companies who would depend more on expanding
business only to sustain the business itself.
mrichardr
--- In Metastockusers@xxxx, "Dushyant Anand" <cooldush@xxxx> wrote:
> A chuckle (with a pinch of salt)
> MS has been looking for breaks ... to often for comfort.
> :-)
> Cool
> --- In Metastockusers@xxxx, "neo" <neo1@xxxx> wrote:
> > John
> >
> > It may really have been a misprint. Let's give MetaStock a break.
> >
> > neo
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John R [mailto:jrdrp@x...]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 5:02 PM
> > To: Metastockusers@xxxx
> > Subject: [Metastockusers] System Tester-the future?
> >
> >
> > Here's an interesting point I noticed recently with System Tester
> in V7.03
> > EOD. When you specify an Optimisation variable in a the Stop
> parameter (as
> > per EOD manual page 328) the program displays a dialogue message
> box "Stop
> > optimisation parameters are only available in Metatsock Pro....".
> >
> > When I queried this with Equis Support their response was that
> there is a
> > misprint in the EOD manual. IMO when many users have been waiting
a
> long
> > time for the System Tester to be improved this just adds insult
to
> injury.
> >
> > Maybe the Equis tactic is to try and migrate their EOD user base
to
> the Pro
> > version by only making long overdue System Tester improvements
> available in
> > the Pro version. Perhaps Equis PR would like to comment?
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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