Unlike many of the old-timers here, I'm actually reasonably new to Metastock. My first go with MS was a few years ago. I'm more of an inter-market analyst, and I have to compliment many aspects of what they've put out, but let me start with a bold, capitalized, underlined request - that I hope someone will act upon.
WE NEED MORE INTRADAY DATA AND WE NEED IT NOW!!!
Seriously guys, this is something that needs to be sorted out right away. 3 months? Are you kidding me? You can throw in a million bells and whistles, but if you give us three months of intra-day, let's be honest - only losing traders can use this product. And the thing is, traders that make money are much better customers than traders that lose money. So help us make money, guys - and give us more intraday data, right away.
WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, GIVE US OFFLINE & THIRD PARTY ACCESS..
W[censored]ver the genius was that decided you'd lock us into your streams through this new data format - needs to think long and hard about the dangers of repression. I feel repressed, heck, i feel like I'm in a bit of a metastock prison.
.. GIVE US A BIT MORE EIKON..
Now, this one's really a compliment, but since I'm moaning and quite enjoying the moan - I'll make it sound like a complaint. Eikon is pretty bloody fantastic. It saves me time, and anything that saves me time is awesome. Well worth the money spent. But, err - someone sat there trying to determine permission levels - and w[censored]ver that was, got a lot of things wrong. For example, in the economic monitor section - a random collection of charts tell you permission is denied, while showing you the data.. Other show you data and live charts. Economic indicator charts show you charts, minus the most recent data. This is plain absurd (PMI data works this way - and PMI data is very bloody important. So fix this).
And.. several other things follow this illogical paradigm. For instance, when I go to one of the markets I trade - India, I go to equities -> indices -> Market Data and tools I get pemission errors on things like FII Activity - Equity (publicly available data, on the SEBI website); I don't get an A/d line (Eikon is really cool - but how can you have an index without an A/D line?). We've been using A/D lines for 50 years! Give us an A/D line.
And in general, it would really just be fantastic if you opened up the messenger - at least, based on some criteria - give us a competence exam if that's what it takes. But, trading is a lonely endeavor and a nice trader chat is good for the spirits. And good for that bottom line, and like I said, you want your traders to make money. Because if they don't, they don't get to pay you for very long. Open it up, Reuters, open it up.
And that's where my moaning ends.
A lot of what's inside Xenith is absolute quality. You're allowing us retail folks to work with something almost institution grade. I'd be thrilled if you made the framework actually institution grade for us and worked on the two elements I've raised.
I get the sense that a person named John is quite open and receptive. And I hope he'll humor me on a timeline of when we can expect more intraday data. And perhaps promise me that he'll personally sit down and navigate permission levels and change something everytime the trader in him is infuriated. Cheers everybody!
