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I have replied to this on the
equismetastock group.
Dusant
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 3:37
AM
Subject: [Metastockusers] Explorer
Bug
I keep forgetting to post a note about an explorer bug
I notice a
while back while experimneting with some historical tests.
When you run an exploration, if has a filter it rejects some of
the
stocks you run through it. That's normal. There is also a normal
group
of reasons for rejection and the filter is only one.
Ocasionally
you'll get a rejection for a reason associated with MS's
ability to
get the data.
However, if you run the same exploration
multiple times over a range
of dates, you may get a lot of rejections for
Maximum number of securities alrealy locked.
Sometimes the
rejection rate can be as high as 70%.
THIS IS NOT THE ERROR WHICH IS
FIXED BY INCREASING THE FILE LOCKS IN
THE REGISTRY TO AN AMOUNT above
250,000. That's a completely different
issue.
Equis knows about the
problem and said that in the last version of MS
they noticed it during
testing but it didn't happen too often so they
didn't fix it.
The
only way to stop the error is to shutdown MS and start it up
again. That's
a pain when you have to run a number of historical
explorations for system
testing.
A lot of people have the problem but they don't notice it
because very
few people open the rejects tab, and very few people run
multiple
explorations across more than the current date.
This is a
major problem. All of you should make sure that when you run
an exploration
you know why you're getting rejects.
If you see this problem, report
it to Equis so they can finally figure
out it's not minor and they need to
fix it.
Even when they figure it out, given they're track record they
won't
bother to fix it because it doesn't interfere with them selling
new
copies of MS to unsuspecting people. That's sad, but it's the
truth
Anyway watchout for this error. It can change your results
dramatically.
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