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Glenn,
I believe Equis commissioned development of the add-ins you refer to from a
US company called TSA Group so you could always try them direct.
www.tsagroup.com.
You are not the first to discover rather belatedly that add-in code is
password protected - Equis don't exactly advertise this fact. You will also
find that some of the Experts included with Metastock are also locked.
I also find it strange why Equis has decided to lock these features. I
haven't tested them myself but doubt whether they consitute any Holy Grail.
As you suggest the real value of the systems would probably be as
educational sample systems. Perhaps if there are some users on these lists
they could comment on their performance.
I would recommend the Guppy Traders site as a good source of information for
Metastock formulas, trading systems etc.
http://203.31.125.5/guppy/gup98.htm
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Woolum" <gwooly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 8:11 PM
Subject: Performance Explorations
> Hi,
>
> Newbie question again...
>
> I've noticed that MetaStock Pro includes 'performance' explorations as
well
> as 'signal' explorations for each of the MetaStock performance systems. I
> paid for the 'MetaStock Performance Systems' in addition to MetaStock Pro,
> so I was glad that I'm able to access the 'signal' explorations provided
> with the package.
>
> A performance explorations is an exploration that is able to run a given
> system against a list of securities, and provide results in a system
> 'performance' output instead of which securities gave a signal. It seems
to
> me that when you're developing a system, you would want to know how it
works
> agains a large group of securites, therefore verifying your ability to
write
> a good system.
>
> I'm not very happy (I'm pissed, in fact) to find out that I'm unable to
> access *any* of the performance explorations provided in MetaStock. I get
a
> message that says that the exploration is either 'read only' or is
password
> protected. I want to use the full capability of MetaStock, but now I'm
> beginning to feel that they don't want me to know how to write performance
> explorations. There is no help on this subject, there are no examples, and
> the MetaStock reps don't have a clue about this. When I called MetaStock,
> the rep told me that the subject explorations were written with Standard
> MetaStock formulas, but he couldn't tell me how to write a 'performance'
> exploration.
>
> My question is how does one write a performance exploration on a given
> system? Does anyone have a clue?
>
> I told the rep I was very unhappy that I paid over $1000 and there is no
> clue how to write a performance exploration. He had no response except to
> say that I could reqest that functionality to be added in future releases.
> The problem I'm having with his answer is the fact that performance
> explorations exist, so someone wrote them. Why aren't us customers being
let
> in on the secrets? Didn't we pay good money?
>
> Regards,
> Glenn Woolum
>
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