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In my humble opinion the odds of making progress with Equis are slim to
none.
They have not added any capabilities for the serious system developer/trader
since at least v7.0.
Their target market is clearly no longer the serious system
developer/trader. They are targetting the TC2000 market, make it simple,
sell the data, sell add-ons.
That market is far larger than the system developer/serious trader. I
believe they have made a conscious decison to leave that to the
Tradestations, eSignals, Wealthlabs, and yes, Amibrokers of the world.
Go back 4 years and you will see that many if not most of the heavy duty
wizards that existed back then have left (most to Amibroker). Pop over
there and you will see lots of posts by heavy hitters that used to post
here. That is not to say that there are still not wizards here, but there
sure are a lot fewer of them.
I personally still use it, but am getting increasingly frustrating. I'm
frustrated that the language has had no upgrades. I can still to lots of
stuff with it, but am most frustrated with the database bug that causes the
system tester to crash after the the database size reaches a certain size.
To me that is just unconscionable in this day and age. I have a big, fast
machine. If I want to make a run on 50 years of data with lots of
optimizations and say 100,000 runs, I should be able to do that if I'm
willing to suffer the time. But that is impossible. Since 8.0 I can't do
runs with more than about 600-700 optimizations if I use 4-5 years of data.
Well, enough venting. Just had to export all system tests, clean out the
database, reload Metastock, and now I'm good to go for another few weeks.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Tomlinson" <andrew_tomlinson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Metastockusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:12 AM
Subject: RE: [Metastockusers] How to fix the Trailing Stop in the systems
tester
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> If we are serious about trying to get Equis to pay attention, then I
> suggest
> that it is worthwhile maintaining and updating a master list of problems
> on
> the Files section of this board. Complaints and requests to Equis can then
> use the comprehensive list rather than one offs. Indeed, once we're happy
> with it we might consider an email and letter-writing campaign.
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> Superfrag - is your list in a shape that it could be posted?
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> The list would also be beneficial to newbies in that they could save a lot
> of time trying to do things that they can't actually do because of bugs
> and
> limitations of the software.
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> I suggest that any such list separate out actual bugs (i.e. the software
> doesn't do what it says it does - e.g. trailing stops) from a wishlist
> (things that the software could do but doesn't try to at this point - e.g.
> a
> fast PREV or an ability to chart lines beyond the current bar) - although
> both would be useful. So maybe a bug list and a wishlist.
>
> Andrew
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: superfragalist [mailto:jackolso@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:41 AM
> To: Metastockusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Metastockusers] How to fix the Trailing Stop in the systems
> tester
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> Here's a fix for the trailing stop problem. If enough users complain to
> Equis and stop buying their idiot upgrades that haven't fixed a bug in the
> program for two years, guess what--they'll start fixing them. Too many
> people get all jacked up about crap that they glue on to MS for their next
> upgrade that is simply window dressing and doesn't do anything for you. MS
> 9.0 is a perfect example.
>
> If you stop sending them your money, they'll listen. Otherwise, why should
> they. Because it's the right thing to do! Get real. They hear Reuters
> breathing down their necks, not you. Until they hear you, the customer
> removing their money from the Equis wallet, nothing is going to get fixed.
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> They used to fix all the known bugs with interim releases. They don't do
> that anymore. It costs money, and you and your problems don't.
>
> I've got a list of dozens of things in MS that don't work properly. Equis
> has known about most of them for at least two years, and somethngs they've
> known about them for three years. You know how many have been fixed. I
> do--none! Who's fault is that?
>
> It's time for all the users to take responsibility for fixing the problems
> with MS. How to do you do that? By getting very vocal and telling Equis,
> it's either fix the problems or hello AmiBroker.
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> --- In Metastockusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Harry M. Ward <hmw3@xxxx> wrote:
>> On 1 Feb 2005 01:58:14 -0000, "Scott & Lynda Mariani" <mariani@xxxx>
>> wrote:
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>> >>Harry,
>> >>You mentioned in an earlier post that the Trailing Stops option in
>> >>the System Tester is broken. Could you elaborate on the problem? Any
>> >>known work around?
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>> If you select the Percent method, no matter what parameters you
>> choose, you will either get an exit the day after you enter the trade,
>> or you will never get an exit. I am not sure what the exact problem
>> is. After some testing, Metastock support confirmed to me that the
>> problem exists.
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>> Two workarounds:
>> 1. Use Points for the Method
>> 2. Enter your own exit formulas, as Jose suggested.
>>
>> Harry
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