It seems to be an obvious oversight, but there is no CODE tag in CS. It is NOT BBcode compliant (and I'm told they don't want it to be.) I knew this would be an issue, and it isn't surprising that you are the first to raise it, so I saved this beta-forum thread to let you know what I know. IMO, right now the easiest solution will be to post all formulas as plain text between your familiar start and stop tags. For example:

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{ Nightcrawler sleep cycles and the price of gold }
{ ©Copyright 2006 Jose Silva }
{ http://www.metastocktools.com }

pds:=Input("Sleep time",1,50,21);
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See related post in this forum. Bottom line, we are waiting on Telligent to add this to the CS feature list. Perhaps v3.0?? I understand it won't be v2.1 or v2.2.

I saw that last night and thought you had too much beer to drink when you updated your profile! [:S] Now, after reading this, I think we'll chalk it up to another migration glitch. Easy fix.

Thanks so much for this useful feedback. Please keep it coming. Even if I can't get it changed or fixed or whatever, I can hound people pretty good. Of course, you already know that! [;)]

pds1:=Input("short moving average",1,100,12);

pds2:=Input("long moving average ",1,200,26);

pds3:=Input("signal moving average",1,200,9);

pds4:=Input("tema periods",2,50,14);

0;

x:= Tema(C ,pds4 ) ;

a:=Mov(x ,pds1 ,E )- Mov(x ,pds2 ,E );

b:=Mov(a,pds3,E);

d:=If((a-b)>Ref((a-b),-1),a-b,0);
dd:=If((a-b)<Ref((a-b),-1),a-b,0);

b;

d*2;

dd*2;

a;

yall must be doing something different than me.... can't see the issue....h

MetaStock -> Tools -> Indicator Builder -> New
Copy and paste formula below.


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EMA, cycle-adaptive
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{ Cycle-adaptive Exponential Moving Avg v1.1 }
{ EMA periodicity determined by historical
 price cycle based on ZigZag cycles }
{ ©Copyright 2004 Jose Silva }
{ http://www.metastocktools.com }

pr:=Input("ZigZag cycle reversal %",0,100,5);
choose:=Input("EMA periods based on: [1]Cycle, [2]Cycle Avg",1,2,1);
multi:=Input("EMA periodicity: Cycle/Avg length x",.1,100,2);
x:=Input("use Open=1 High=2 Low=3 Close=4 Volume=5 P=6",1,6,6);
shift:=1+Input("EMA vertical shift %",
 -100,100,0)/100;
plot:=Input("[1]EMA [2]Signals [3]Cycle [4]CyAvg [5]CyStdDev",1,6,1);

x:=If(x=1,O,If(x=2,H,If(x=3,L,If(x=5,V,If(x=6,P,C)))));
zz:=Zig(x,pr,%);
zzpk:=Ref(zz,-1)>zz AND Ref(zz,-1)>Ref(zz,-2);
zztr:=Ref(zz,-1)<zz AND Ref(zz,-1)<Ref(zz,-2);
PkTr:=zzpk OR zztr;
CycleLen:=PkTr*(Ref(BarsSince(PkTr),-1)+1);
CycleCount:=Cum(PkTr)-1;
CycleCount:=If(CycleCount=0,.000001,CycleCount);
CycleLenAvg:=Cum(CycleLen)/CycleCount;

pds:=If(choose=1,ValueWhen(1,CycleLen>0
 AND CycleCount>0,CycleLen),CycleLenAvg)*multi;
Init:=CycleCount=1 AND Alert(CycleCount<1,2);
pds:=
 If(pds>BarsSince(Init),BarsSince(Init),pds);
pds:=If(pds<1,1,pds);
Ema:=x*2/(pds+1)+PREV*(1-2/(pds+1));
Ema:=Ema*shift;
signals:=Cross(x,Ema)-Cross(Ema,x);

If(plot=1,Ema,If(plot=2,signals,
 If(plot=3,CycleLen,
 If(plot=4,CycleLenAvg,
 If(plot=5,Stdev(CycleLen,21),pds)))))

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http://www.metastocktools.com

This is not a solution, but an explanation. Using the RichText Editor is problematic for Opera users. The only current alternatives are 1) don't use Opera, or 2) use HTML formatting. I purposely left off option 3.

Are you using Opera? If so, then that is why you are not seeing the more feature filled post editor. Most Rich Text / WYSIWYG editors do not work with Opera because Opera does not support a built-in HTML editing library like IE and FireFox/Mozilla do.

The defeault editor in CS is FreeTextBox which renders a plain small box in Opera. A plain textbox editor (where you enter any HTML you want to use manually) is also included. You will probably want to change your editor to that.

1. Edit your profile by clicking on your username in the top-right of the screen.

2. Click on the SiteOptions tab.

3. Change the Content editor dropdown value from Rich Editor to DefaultTextEditor (which is the plain textbox).

4. Click the Save Changes button.

Update:

Actually I have good news in the Opera department!

CS 1.x and 2.0 were shipped with FreeTextBox as the default rich text editor and it did not work (or work well) with Opera and some other less widely used browsers.

CS 2.1 will have an all new default editor named TinyMCE which is lighter weight and works in more browsers, including Opera 9! In fact I am writing this post in Opera 9.01 and the post editor works great. The only caveat is that older versions of Opera will need to be upgraded to 9.0x to use the editor.