Bring back the "multiple folder" option so we can have an unlimited number of indicators in different folders. Currently, the indicator folder is limited and when full, does not allow fro expansion! Duh!
This isn't a problem for one using a few indicators, but those of us doing reserach need
the capacity.

When did we ever have this capability? MS6.5 didn't have it.... and no version since has had it? I could be wrong, but I am sure I would have noticed that feature!

If you have many, many, many formulae then you need to find a good management system for them. No two people will have the same idea, but here's what I do:

Whenever I write an indicator I prefix the indicator name with the initials or name of the person I am writing the indicator for e.g. RR - Indicator1, SMB - Indicator 2 etc. This also applies if I get the indicator from another source e.g. Jose - Trendline, Roy - Latch etc. Any indicators still in testing have a lead underscore character to place then towards the top of the indicators list and it is a quick visual clue for me as to the state of the indicator and what work I still have to do.

As you start to approach the 2000 indicator limit (1000 in MS 6.5) mny people would need to export some of the indicators and then delete them from the list to make room for more, but there is an easy way. I take a copy of my MS80FORM.DTA file (or the equivalent for the different versions of MS you are running) and create a copy of it, with a date indication e.g. MS80FORM_May2006.DTA Now I just open MS again and delete all the indicators in the list that I do not need this month and I have a nice neat list again. If ever I need to go back in time to grab an old indicator, I TAKE A COPY OF THE CURRENT MS80FORM.DTA file (important! don't forget to take a copy!) and then rename the historical file to allow MS to see it. I then have access to my old indicators again.

If I need to take a copy of an indicator from an historical file and bring it into a current file, I just export the code to the desktop using the Organiser (with a 'z'), rename the current indicator file I want to be the current MS80FORM file and then import the indicator into the current list: Or I just cut and paste the code component, it depends on how much historical data I need.

I currently have over 4000 indicators (most of them will never see the light of day again!) and manage these quite easily. Its a little bit hand-draulic, but I only ever have to do my maintenance on a monthly basis. I keep about 250 indicators in my "current" file.



Hope this helps.

wabbit [:D]

Ahhhh... now I see what what meant by choosing the indicator folder....

Tools > Options > File Locations

I was thinking along a much more oblique line, something like:

in code: Fml("C: \ My Formulas \ MSxxFORM.DTA \ MACD()")

i.e. locating the file that contain the indicator to be used (if it isn't the default indicator file)

There is always going to have to be some sort of limit on the number of objects that can be placed into a container, so personally I would prefer an option to able to dynamically select which container I would like to use. Setting the location in the Tools > Options might be OK, but I'd prefer the option of selecting other indicator folders on the fly. I could then easily categorise my indicators.


wabbit [:D]

Hi Bill It's not a very satisfactory solution but what I'm starting to do is to only load files to specfic MS versions. MS 9.1 is my workhorse but formulas created for clients or subscribers are usually offloaded to MS7.03 or 8.01. This allows me to remove the files from 9.1 (if I want to), or create EXE files for said formulas and load them into a later version only when necessary. Somewhere along the way the limit for indicators was increased from 1000 to 2000, but I still bang my head against the ceiling on a regular basis. A higher limit would be nice but I doubt that it's a priority with the powers that be. Roy