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Re: Ver 8.0 EOD bugs



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When you pay the big bucks to buy this program, does it come with a PRINTED AND
BOUND book that documents all these multi level procedures?

Pierre Tremblay wrote:

> David,
>
> David, in MS 8.0 EOD you always can have a delay of one day and in the Explorer
> you can always load a group of stocks.
>
> In the new MS 8.0 system tester, in a simulation, after you selected securities,
> you click on NEXT and you have SYSTEM TESTING OPTIONS. You click on MORE button
> and now you select TRADE EXECUTION. You check the box REALISTIC MARKET PRICES
> and any triggered order executes at the open of the next bar.
>
> And for the Explorer, when you want to run an exploration, you click on EXPLORE
> button, and ADD SECURITIES button. You make your choices -  to load a group of
> stocks you click on the first one and you press SHIFT and click on the last one
> and OPEN. You can now save your list on the favorite folder if you want to take
> the same group another time. To load the same group another time, you will find
> these stocks in the group saved under FAVORITES. You than click on the first one
> and you press SHIFT and click on the last one and OPEN to load the same group of
> stocks.
>
> Pierre Tremblay
>
> David Olson a écrit :
>
> > I was at a seminar over the weekend, many of whom were Metastock users.  One
> > guy said he was sorry he upgraded.  Another said that after what he heard he
> > wasn't going to upgrade.  The major complaint I heard was that we (unless
> > we're missing something) lost ability to delay trades by one  day in system
> > tester.  The button that gave you that option is gone.  People are having to
> > rewrite their code to make their systems trade the next day.  I was also
> > very disappointed to see that you couldn't optimize the canned stops.  They
> > say you can do that in the intraday ("Professional") version but I test and
> > trade end of day and shouldn't have to buy an intraday version to get that
> > option if I don't trade intraday.  Also, I may have to do a little more
> > looking but I haven't seen a way to load a groups of stocks at once into the
> > system tester.  I tried to swipe or highlight several stocks but could only
> > load them one at a time.  I can't believe that Equis would leave out that
> > ability....I must be missing something.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Harels" <harelsdb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 2:07 PM
> > Subject: Re: Ver 8.0 EOD bugs
> >
> > >
> > > I am having problems with the utility that cleans up old system tests to
> > > free up hard disk space.  It hangs up and ctrl-alt-del gives a program not
> > > responding message.
> > >
> > > Also, the "print to file" utility from the system test print menu does not
> > > seem to work.  Perhaps I need additional Acrobat software?
> > >
> > > There may be some bugs in the system tester, but, Equis did a very good
> > job
> > > for my money.
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > >From: Ong Hock Choon <hcong168@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >Reply-To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >Subject: Ver 8.0 EOD bugs
> > > >Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:38:04 +0800
> > > >
> > > >I had recently purchased a copy of Metastock EOD ver 8.0 and I wish to
> > > >report the following bugs:
> > > >
> > > >1. CANNOT DISPLAY Point and Figure box size Error
> > > >
> > > >For stock price below $1, it cannot accept any box size value to
> > > >display P&F chart.  What make thing more flustrating is: the error
> > > >Message says: "It cannot accept any other value except 0 to 0".
> > > >Those P&F charts saved using previous version (7.03 in my case) still
> > > >display property, but just that it cannot be changed.
> > > >
> > > >2. Display Problem of Custom Tool Bar
> > > >
> > > >When putting the custom display tool bar on the right hand side of the
> > > >screen, with no chart opened, the custom tool bars together with ALL
> > > >other tool bars will be shifted off to the right of the screen and
> > > >cannot be seen or click.  Those tool bars will be shifted back to
> > > >proper position once a chart had been opened.
> > > >
> > > >Note: I customised all icons there to chart templates, the problem will
> > > >not happen if all custom tool bar icons are referring to programs.
> > > >
> > > >I had email Equis support to report those bug but so far no respond from
> > > >them.  Anyone got any solution?
> > > >
> > > >--
> > > >
> > > >Regards.
> > > >
> > > >Ong Hock Choon
> > > >hcong168@xxxxxxxxxx
> > >
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