Since you asked...
This has NOTHING to do with a misplaced symbol. It is entirely the havoc wrought throughout Metastock's systems by renaming folders for absolutely no good reason whatsoever.
Around Mar/Apr of this year, after a 2-3 month delay, an update was finally posted. Symbols in the wrong folder are NOT the problem, it is that the FOLDER NAMES were changed without any discernable reason. The changes went something like this:
Stocks Alphabetical to US Stocks Alphabetical
Stocks Alphabetical -- 2 folders to 6 folders
Preferred Stocks & Warrants -- now a sub-folder of Us Stocks Alphabetical
Preferred Stocks & Warrants -- 1 folder to 2 sub-folders
Stocks by Exchange -- New York Stock Exchange to NYSE
Stocks Grouped by Sector -- COMPLETELY MISSING
Canadian Trading & Quotation system -- COMPLETELY MISSING
Canadian Venture Exchange -- moved to 2 sub-folders
Toronto Stock Exchange -- moved to 2 sub-folders
S&P500 to S&P 500 -- meaningless folder name change
DJ Industrials to Dow Jones Industrial -- meaningless folder name change
All of the following had to be changed, corrected or otherwise fixed, then
checked, purely due to the changes in folder organization. ALL OF
THEM!!!
* Custom indicators using the SECURITY() function.
* Favorites lists -- causes this unstable aspect of Metastock to wig out on ALL lists.
* FIRE Addon lists & computations
* Smart Charts
* Explorations
* Downloader lists
Then -- all of a sudden -- the July changes
as listed HERE put them back the way they had been!!! When I saw the web page, I about had my very first coronary!
Fortunately, it turned out that the
documentation page DOES NOT MATCH the actual contents created by the Update Utility! It was a good thing I renamed the Metastock folder temporarily, then did the extract and compared the web page to the actual folders. I didn't have to do nearly as much work this time as at the beginning of the 2nd quarter.
My opinion is that this amount of unbridled revision is COMPLETELY NUTS! This creates HOURS OF WORK to correct the items affected, not to mention the additional time required to check that everything works!
These changes are NOT a minor matter -- a bit of discipline would go a long way, and while NECESSARY changes should be made, they ought be noted/documented up-front on the webpage where you are listing the folders, so a user has a "heads-up" that Charts, Indicators, Experts, Explorations and Add-ons WILL NOT WORK!!!
This kind of thing wastes my time with office busy-work crap, when said effort needs to be spent checking charts for stop level violations, running Explorations for Long/Short candidates and placing broker orders.
This mickey-mouse stuff is the very LAST THING I need to be dealing with, particularly in volatile markets.
OK, I'm done. You DID ask, though...
