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I have to put in my two cents here. Technical Analysis Scanner (TAS) is my main
workhorse. I use it to scan through around 1300 stocks a night. It will print custom
reports and charts. It is basically a programming shell, so many people may not find it
particularly user friendly. However, anything you can do in Easy Language you can do
with TAS. None of this akward Chart Scanner crap. You want your report sorted a
certain way, no problem. You want your buystop, sellstop, risk, 50 day ATR, and
anything else you can imagine, no problem.
It is really a shame it never caught on huge. But then again, some of my best tools,
like Trading Recipes for example, don't have a huge following either. Hopefully Martin
will come out of retirement and make sure TAS will keep on ticking in 2000. Now that
I think about it, I would regret the demise of TAS far more than my TradeStation 4.0.
And TAS cost me $269. I haven't checked the www.flexsoft.com website in a few
months, but I think many people on the list would find TAS very useful.
Regards,
Lawson McWhorter
lawson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Stefano,
>
>I used to use it a few years ago before I switched to TS. I used it in
>conjunction with Metastock to do nightly scans. Back in those days it had
>the kind of programming flexibility that no other program even came close
>to. Even SystemWriter at that time which sold for more than 5 times the
>cost of TAS didn't have as much flexibility. For whatever reason the
>creator and programmer of TAS (Martin) decided to go back to working 9-5 for
>a living instead of in his words "sitting around waiting for the phone to
>ring." In my opinion TAS had a huge amount of potential to rival even
>SystemWriter if Martin had chosen to market it. I never saw ads for it or
>any other type of advertising aside from what came with Metastock. As
>Metastock faded so did TAS. Martin tried to make it compatible with
>Supercharts but at the time Omega would only divulge their proprietary file
>format for a few thousand dollars. That was a few thousand too much for
>Martin so he tried to hack the format but which didn't quite work 100% of
>the time. When last I talked to him a couple years ago, he was working on a
>Windows version but this was taking way too long since Martin didn't know
>windows programming all that well. Coupled with his new programming job,
>TAS was on the back burner and I suspect for good.
>
>I use Easy Language now to generate daily analysis.
>
>Brian.
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