I am doing an exploration on 350 stocks pulled from 2 folders. a lot o f these were rejected with eht message "

Maximum number of securities already locked

". Please tell me how to resolve the problem. it has never happened before. i am using metastock 9.1 windows xp. thank you

I doubt it had anything to do with the specific exploration per se, because when I repeated the exploration, on the same stocks, none were rejectd.

Must be one of those weird metastock things that are always turning up!

It sure would be nice to know in general what a strange message error like that might mean tho.

Thanks anyway, Geo

The below is the exploration.

spy:= ExtFml( "FORUM.Sum",Mov(Fml("spx"),5,S)> ExtFml( "Xtend.Xtend", Mov(Fml("spx"),45,S)) AND Mov(Fml("spx"),5,S)>Ref(Mov(Fml("spx"),7,S),-5) AND ROC( ExtFml( "Xtend.Xtend",Mov(Fml("spx"),37,E) ) ,1,%)>0 , 1) ;
LongEntryTRIGGER:= ExtFml( "Xtend.Xtend",

Mov(VOLUME,15,S)*Mov(C,15,S)<620000 AND

Fml("buyetf") AND
spy AND
Fml("volhealthy")>0 AND

Mov(VOLUME,15,S)*Mov(C,15,S)>25000 AND C>3.3 AND ROC(Fml("Q trendehler3"),1,%)>0
AND Fml("Q trendehler3")>.3 AND

ROC(Fml("pvtorig(2)"),1,%)>0) ;

ExtFml( "Xtend.Xtend", If(longentrytrigger,

ExtFml( "Xtend.Xtend", Fml("URSC-us auto ig indexvol")>0),0)) ;