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David,
I thank that Equis targets a differnet audience, otherwise use Tradestation.
If Equis would consider a "Metatstock Super Pro Version" the price would be
*much* higher than $500-$1000 because of the very small target audience
(maybe more than the price for a tradestation because of the lack of
a high experience in this field). I've been told that's the reason why
Omega was nearly going out of business some time ago...
Best regards,
Erwin
David DeFina wrote:
>
> 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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