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Allan:
Exactly right about AmiBroker. IMO, beats MS
right now with respect to programming ability (functions, script, etc.).
Even the RT ability will I believe be ahead of MS. When I asked MS to
consider including QuoteTracker the response within the blink of an eye was no,
but here comes AB and it will handle that relatively simple chore and probably
other RT/delayed sites. Charting, as you note, is the hangup at this time,
and is the reason I have not switched since much of my work is charting oriented
vs systems. Popping for another MS update is going to take some smooth
talking.
Bill
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black">From:
Allan Wade
To: <A title=metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 11:40
AM
Subject: RE: Stop Optimize Button
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Lionel,
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">I
agree with your assessment 99%. There *<SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">is* one support person, Lynn, who is
nothing short of a genius. I have always had excellent results when I am able
to contact him. He has always followed through with promises. If he said he
was going to send me something at a later date, it always showed up,
etc.
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">I also
had a good experience with a Tech named Patrick. He was very diligent in
finding a conversion bug in Downloader.
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">OTOH,
I recently called a tech…I’ll call him “Bob”, with a problem. He said he
needed to do some research and testing and would get back to me, either later
in the day, or the following day. After no response for 2 days I called back.
“Bob” answered the call. I asked what he had found. He didn’t even remember
talking to me. After I refreshed his memory he said he said he had gotten busy
the day before and hadn’t had time to do the testing but would definitely do
some testing and get back to me….that was about 3 weeks ago. I definitely have
a problem with attitudes like that. I paid for the call, and waited in the
queue for service. When a tech answers my call, it’s my time. If there is
testing or quick research that needs done, then do it while I’m on the phone,
especially if I’m willing to sit there while paying for the call. In “Bob’s”
case, he obviously closed the call as a success and when about his business
(it sounded like he was eating during one
call).
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">The
sad part is, that people like “Bob” usually get the recognition for “solving”
and closing many calls, while guys like Lynn (yes, Lynn is a guy) who takes
the time and does a superb job gets very little or
none.
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">I’ve
always said I was going to wait for the next Super release of Metastock
(Release 8?) and see if they fix some of the ongoing problems and limitations
of the current Metastock. However, I don’t see how they can fix their
substandard support. I have been closely following the progress of a competing
product called Amibroker. The author is very responsive to suggestions and has
a published release schedule laid out through he first quarter of next year.
So far he has met or exceeded all of his deadlines. At the end of this year,
he is going to release a Real Time version and in March/April of 2002 he is
going to rewrite the charting engine. The charting engine is the only real
weakness, other than no real time version, that I can see in the product. Once
that happens, he should have a product that we all wish Metastock was (or
could have been).
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">The
only way Equis will wake up and face their problems is by having a competitor
start siphoning off their business and having satisfied users of the new
software sing it’s praises. I have a lot of time and money invested in
Metastock, but with Amibroker showing so much promise, I’m going to have to
consider it as an alternative.
<FONT face=Arial color=navy
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<FONT face=Arial color=navy
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<FONT
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Allan
Wade
<SPAN
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AZ
<SPAN
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allanwade@xxxxxxxx<SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">-----Original
Message-----From:
owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]<SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of Lionel Issen<SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:16
PMTo:
metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject: Re: Stop Optimize
Button
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size=3><SPAN
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<FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2>Tech
support at Equis has deteriorated. It used to unexcelled, it still is
but from the other end.<SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> <FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2>I sent
a query in to tech support about an indicator that I couldn't find (it turned
out to be accessible by a tool bar button). The answer I got back was
that they could develop the indicator for a fee. They appear to
be a bunch of morons.<SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> <FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face=Arial color=black
size=2>Write
Kristine back and ask her to forward your query to her
supervisor.<SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=black size=3>Lionel
Issen<A
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color=black><SPAN
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From:<FONT face=Arial
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<SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal
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13, 2001 11:32 AM<SPAN
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face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Subject:<FONT
face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Stop Optimize
Button<SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<P class=MsoNormal
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face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> <FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<P class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-LEFT: 39.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">I recently upgraded to MS EOD 7.2 and
just noticed that the OPTIMIZE button on the STOPS dialog is grayed out.
Don't see any instructions that address this problem,
so <SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">I sent this question
to Equis and got the following response:<FONT
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face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> <FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<P class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-LEFT: 39.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=teal size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: teal">Sir:<FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<P class=MsoNormal
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face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> <FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<P class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-LEFT: 39.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=teal size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: teal">I am sorry, the Optimize button is
disabled on custom system tests.<FONT color=teal
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: teal">Please
don't hesitate to contact me if you have any
questions.Thank
you,Kristine<FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
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face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> <FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
<P class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-LEFT: 39.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">Does this make sense to anyone? If
so, under what conditions is the Stop Optimize button activated? Based
on the HELP instructions (attached), it appears that it should
always be active. A shot of what I see is also attached. Any input
regarding how this aspect of the program operates for you would be
appreciated.<SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"> <FONT
color=black><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black">Bill<FONT
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