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Yes, to all your points and that is why I'm using Amibroker now. I was a big believer in Metastock. emphasis on was.
Kevin Campbell
In a message dated 11/23/03 8:05:11 PM Central Standard Time, david_cardner@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I have been working with the Equis Technical Support personnel since I purchased v7.0 in June of 2000. The support has been excellent, so when v8.0 was released, I bought it. I had developed my own trading algorithm and was particularly interested in being able to calibrate it against a portfolio of equities with the System Tester. However, I found the number of bugs in v8.0 was overwhelming and I had to revert back to using the v7.22 System Tester. My personal observation was that version 8.0 was not even qualified for alpha testing at the time of its release. I was delighted when v8.01 was released six months later. I thought the bugs had been corrected. I was wrong. I discovered that v8.01, although a big improvement, would barely qualify as a beta test version. I was both upset and embarrassed because I had talked two friends into buying v8.01.With both v7.22 and v8.01 on the same computer it is easy to compare System Tester results. The results between the two versions running the identical algorithm are drastically different, regardless of whether they are being run in normal or points-only mode. This occurs when v8.01 has been carefully configured to reproduce v7.22 results. Bottom line is that v7.22 results make sense, v8.01 results do not. Technical support has not been able to explain the differences, nor provide a workable solution. I still do not use v8.01. I use only v7.22 because it is the only version that I trust.What I find unusual is that I can't find any other reference on the internet to the mismatch between v7.22 and v8.01 System Tester results. In my 43 years of using computers for problem solving, and having written, debugged, and documented roughly 100,000 lines of code, one of the primary requirements when modifying programs is that they must be able to correctly reproduce previously validated results. This test was obviously not applied to v8.0 or v8.01. Yet it is the only way to validate the changes made to the program.Is there anyone out there that encountered this situation and understands its significance?David
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