When you say "notations" are you referring to the buy/sell arrows that appear after selecting "Plot on Chart" from the System Tester?

MS12 supports online access to data only. For that reason only one smart chart can exists for a given instrument. And system tests do not access saved chart files...they only access the data associated with those charts.

You can save as many chart files (with unique notations) as you want for a given instrument (i.e. File>Save as>Chart), but only one automatically saved chart (i.e., smart chart) is saved per instrument.

--john

Yep. That is a good point. Early in the dev of MetaStock 12 when we decided to move away from local data access, our main concern was the affect on exploration speed. With each new build we compared exploration speeds against some benchmarks. The primary benchmark was the time required to explore 500 instruments. The goal was to keep the overall time of exploring as fast or faster than MetaStock 11. We compared the time required to run XYZ exploration in MetaStock 12 using online access versus the time required to download local data with the DownLoader AND run the same XYZ exploration in MetaStock 11. We were targeting the "average" user's experience where one runs two explorations per day. For MetaStock 11 EOD users with DataLink, we estimated a two-fold overall speed improvement. With MetaStock Pro 11 we estimated a five-fold improvement (the old QuoteCenter datafeed was very very slow). With that said, folks that are running more than two explorations per day on more than 500 instruments, will probably notice a slower overall time. However the hassle-factor of maintaining local data is a benefit for all.

Thanks.