In MetaStock v8.01, the exploration filter space is 2499 characters... jose '-) http://www.metastocktools.com

hey INVESTORKK..... it never dawned on me to look at the limit untill seeing jose's post.... shows ya how often i do explorations i guess........ which version are you using, if ya don't mind..... and btw, wasn't sure on how to export that many indicators to excel..... it might be easier to set up macro's in excell for the function formulas and the just export the price data.... corrected this post, limit appears to be 3000 in 9.1, thats assuming all characters are equal.....h

hey gary..... seems like you can use macros to link excel to real time data.... i am almost certain it can be done using QC.... there is a reuters tools app for excel that creates the links... the use of external formulas almost assuredly must effect meta's efficiency.... that effect might not be a negative one.... without knowing exactly the process meta uses in explorations, we would have to time related explorations.... i ran the macd expert, macd histogram expert, and stochastic osc experts explorations on the folder 'stocks north american' the 7590 US securities only... it took 1.02 , 1.22, and 1.08 for total time of 3.32 minutes... then i ran a combination of those 3 using the fml("a") type setup... the combo deal took 1.39 minutes..... each column contained only fml ..... the combo was similiar to this........ at least in some cases it appears fml's have a positive effect.... patrick, jose or roy would have more experienced thoughts.....h