How much of user wish list is in vsn 10?

I get the impression that vsn 10 is more about adding another expert system than responding to user requests for more user friendly features.

Yes - I wished to see developed:

1. An alert on a drawn trendline on a chart. At present you have to build an indicator or design an explorer which is so laborious and slow.

2. To be able to call the inbuilt functions like Linear Regression with one-line of code and to be able to call a variable simply. At present you have to copy many lines of code from a tool-site and you get a warning message about calling a variable.

It would be nice to know what user requests will be developed and a completion date.

Take a look at http://www.wealth-lab.com/

This is in the same price range (except that when they upgrade it costs just $100).

I haven't actually looked at the trial version yet, but just the web site makes me pine for it. Just from my perspective, the scripts for optimizing (and the indicators) include self defined variable that pass parameters, and the ability to be complex without running out of space. The support on this website looks quite a bit more comprehensive.

good luck

PT
The little quote from Ms Rand at the end of your posts lends a tone of irony to your post.

I too bought into this product, and the existance of this forum area (wish list) which has had a steady growth and long presence gave me some hope that Equis cared. I don't think anybody would ever expect every suggestion to somehow be accounted for in the new product. But from what I can gather from the piles of information (thick, but low on content) advertising the new product, there is not really much improvement in critical areas. Speaking as a programmer, I think there is a lot that could be gleaned from the wish list and incorporated with not that much effort. And a new version number, by my definition, means MUCH effort. Go to Quicken.com, or back to Wealth-lab.com and look at the attention those companies pay to the suggestions on their forums.

To me, staying with Metastock is like watching a trade go the wrong direction. And every trader knows that every trade needs some kind of a stop in place so that you can go on elsewhere if you need to. I have the good fortune to have foreign friends who can do my actual purchase of Wealth-lab Developer. To get myself into a good trading position is worth extra effort.

Good luck to all of you.

How come no one has mentioned Tradestation? I thought Tradestation is the venerable best in the industry. I chose Metastock because of its association with Reuters, its reputation as the runner up, and because Tradestation is too expensive for the non day-trader.

I was quite disappointed to find that although Reuters has a stack in Equis, it pretty much lets it get on with its own business. It'd be good if Reuters applied its own exacting global standards on Equis. Coz the way I look at it, Equis is still a small-town software house, not worthy of being a global brand. Having said that, I haven't tried all that many applications, and so admittedly, these comments are subjective.

Ben, Ben... it's not that MS support can't read - it's more likely that your Züritüütsch (Zürich dialect) is difficult to understand... :) jose '-)

Branden, my thinking on this subject is that Equis made a significant mistake in assigning Version 10 to this release. As a former sales/marketing weasel in Silicon Valley (with an engineering degree to boot) and currently in the business of retailing products to a picky user base with high expectations, I think about stuff like this; the decision set a high bar for the product - a bar that wasn't cleared in many (most?) current users' minds, especially since it was about 18 months since the prior release.

An integer release number implies big things, sometimes big changes. At the least, it signals major improvements and I think one would be hard-pressed to enumerate a very long list of such major fixes, changes and/or improvements. In fact, it would be useful to see a detailed change-history file of exactly what has been updated in this release - I would hope it's a lot more than the handful of bulleted items noted in the sales literature for V10, but I fear it's not.

Adding internal hooks to other products you're trying to sell us is no big deal. RMO sure looks like no big deal (can we have a list of references to the traders "taken by storm" by this thing so we can ask them why it's so magnificent?); just another system among many included in MS (and possibly just a repackaging of existing moving averages; this remains to be sorted out), the new license restrictions and copy protection solely benefit Equis, not the user and that leaves . . . . . . what, exactly? Custom periodicity in the RT version, resizable windows for some (not all) windowed elements and a major bug in the additional columns added to Explorer.

Out of all those, the only one that gets me hot is the resizable windows. Feh. That's a 0.01-release bug fix, more or less.

I suppose we're back to the original question that titles this thread: how much of the compiled user wishlist did make it into this release? And yes, I do know from firsthand experience how difficult it can be to update a complex, established product that's been around for years - especially if the core code is based on obsolete hardware or software platforms. It seems to be a 9.4 or 9.5-type release; assigning it 10 sets high expectations among existing users who are being targeted for upgrade revenue.

Just my humble opinion.

Hmmm... you must know thyself again, hopefully before MetaStock v11's release. :-D j '-)

Is there an upgrade path for EOD users to the 9.2 version and data structure? I gather than Equis is sidelining the 9.1 and earlier structure and your work on the new utility seems to indicate its full fuction will be limited to 9.2 and later.


I'm certainly not trying to put the burden on your shoulders; my comments were directed to the corporate entity as a whole. And I do understand the effort it takes to maintain a complex product. We seem to be in agreement that assigning version 10 was a bit of a stretch to say the least.

Presuming that the plurality (if not majority) of your users are on v9.0 or above, it might make sense to offer a no-cost upgrade to 9.2 for all 9.x users so that we're all on the same page regarding data structures. While I'd appreciate your tweaking the new utility to work with my 9.1EOD, this would preclude hassles with future projects.

I know from reading this forum that there are people still using versions going back to at least 7.x, but I have to believe most active users are 9.0 or above by now, right? If you're using 7.x you're willing to accept many more limitations than just the symbol database structure, so one might regard those situations as moot.

And for what it's worth, every one of my customers is encouraged to give us immediate feedback and we make it easy to do so - I also recognize the value of "venting" to improve the product and company.