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Thanks for a very useful post!
At 07:57 PM 9/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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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>
Michael Paauwe
mpaauwe@xxxxxxxxxx
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