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How to change default chart for System tester
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Hi everyone,
I have been running alot of system tests lately, but am having a really hard time plotting buy/sell signals on the chart. Everytime I plot the system test results on the chart, it plots it on the wrong chart. For example, if I plot WMT 80/20 stoch crossover, it brings up a chart of WMT with RSI or some other old work on it. I can apply the default(or any) template to the chart, but then the signals and symbols get all out of whack. So I have to save the chart with the template as a smartchart, close it, run the test again, replot the results. Am I missing something, this is a PITA... Any suggestions?
Blue
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The System Tester will always bring up the "SmartChart" for that symbol. If you've added something to the Smart Chart, make sure you've saved it before plotting from System Tester results.
If you have another "Custom Chart" with that symbol open (*.MWC), System Test will ignore it, and still call up the Smart Chart. You can replace the "SmartChart" with the *.MWC chart by doing a "Save As" and changing "Files of Type" at the bottom of the dialog to "SmartCharts."
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Yeha, I was afriad that was the answer. That is a pretty tedious way to begin new studies. Almost all of my smartcharts have some sort of old or abandoned studies saved on them, therefore every time I plot a new system test, I have to go throught the entire process of reapplying the appropriate template for the system test, saving it, re-plotting etc..
I even went so far as to open every symbol with my template to save them all as smartcharts, but I couldn't close them all at the same time, doh! LOL..
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There is a way you can purge _all_ smart charts from your system, so that when you open a Smart Chart it will again look at the Default template.
To delete all old smart charts, perform a search in Windows (With all charts in MetaStock closed) for MSSMART
-Click Start-->Search-->All Files and Folders
-In the all or part of the filename box type in MSSMART and click Search
-Delete any MSSMART folders that show up
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Well, there's one thing you can do: If you are SURE you want to replace ALL your SmartCharts with DEFAULT.MWT as your standard analysis chart/tool, you can just delete them all with a batch command file (*.BAT).
Create the following batch file in the US Stocks directory:
DUMP.BAT
echo off
rd /s/q "A - B"\mssmart
rd /s/q "C - D"\mssmart
rd /s/q "E - H"\mssmart
rd /s/q "I - L"\mssmart
rd /s/q "M - N"\mssmart
rd /s/q "O - Q"\mssmart
rd /s/q "R - S"\mssmart
rd /s/q "T - Z"\mssmart
This assumes you are running WinXP, and want to delete the files in the \METASTOCK DATA\US STOCKS\ folder. You will have to modify it, if your data directory/folder structure is different.
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Hey thanks! One or both of those tips will do the trick. I can just delete all the smartcharts without losing my data right? I didn't think of that..
Thanks again..
Blue
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