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Dear Sirs
I've installed MetaStock 10 on Windows XP. But when I open windows with any tipe of scripts(system description, functions and so on) I see it in very bad looking font. I spent to much time to understand what is written in this windows. So my question is how I can change font for scripts display?
Thanks in advance
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Hi Baroda. Welcome to the Forum. I am not sure why your text window fonts would be changing? There are some other "font issues" that have occurred in the past which can be fixed using these instructions: http://forum.equis.com/forums/thread/12880.aspx
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That is one of the few problems that i did not managed to solve. I have Metastock 8,9,10 and no matter wich version i use when i edit a code (no matter where in metastock) the fonts are so small that i barely read them. I supose it has something with windows version, i use an older version of XP Professional.
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This might be a problem with installed system fonts. Perhaps a needed font is missing and Windows is substituting another one that's hard to read.
Try right-clicking on your WinXP desktop, select Properties, then the Appearance tab, then the Advanced button. There, you can see and change the font settings for various defaults - check the list in the "Item" drop-down list.
Good luck!
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Aleready did that PTJim, actually i have tried, well, i guess almost everything and did not work.
Thanks anyway
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This suggestion might work as a last resort and is sort of a brute-force approach to your problem.
See if you can identify the name of the problem font that you have trouble reading. (if you don't have other font-management tools, you could use the Character Map program included as a Windows accessory - scroll through the list of installed fonts until you find the one that matches.) Once you do that, go to your fonts folder and rename the font file to something else. Next, make a copy of an easy-to-read typeface file (Arial, Helvetica, Times Roman etc.) and rename the copy to the same original name as the problem font.
Then, hopefully, whenever the problem font-name file is called, it'll actually load something easy to read.
I have not tested this method, and it's possible it may fail since font names are embedded in the font file and if the name doesn't match what the program expects to see, it may not load the substituted file.
Of course, the best approach is to discover where the problem font is being called, and change the font specification right there.
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PTJim,
As i have told u i did tried i think every solution possible, including your above sugestion as one of the first attempts, and did not work, beeing extremly hard to actually know for sure that it was the right font that i have modified and very time consuming so at one point i did quit this solution.
Last of ur sugestion may be the solution and it is something that i did not tried because i don`t know how
Thank you.
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I think the key to a short-term solution is to identify the problem font that's being loaded - the one you find hard to read.
If a substitution of a different font file doesn't work, then try renaming/moving/deleting the files associated with the problem font (assuming you've figured out which one it is). Remember to modify the associated file versions as well (bold, italic etc.).
Windows will attempt to substitute a different font if it's asked to display a missing font - with luck, the substitute will be easier to read.
In summary, if the problem font you can't read no longer exists on your computer, Windows will try to work around it, with hopefully satisfactory results.
Good luck!
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thanks Jim, btw since you are here look at this: Ashish has posted a code here http://forum.equis.com/forums/thread/23664.aspx,
Me beeing tired now, only surfing the net and having fun i decided to test his code (usually i don`t do that). Until now nothing unusual but writing the test in explorer for testing with tradesim i did made a mistake and forgot to specify that the exit should be 2% under the entry price - or something like that, anyway i did forgot to specyfy an exit to that strategy so the only way to exit from the market was 4% profit. (at the time i did not realize the mistake). and i tested on the nasdaq composite stocks form 2000-2006, starting capital $100000, 0.2% commissions, $10000 capital per tradel, etc , the results were of course amazing: around 90% profitable with avg win/avg loss above 2 because tradesim was configured to ignore open trades. I discovered fast the mistake but then i was thinking... what about doing the same thing this time on purpose and with a simple cross(macd(),mov(macd(),9,s)) code to enter in the market and without ignoring open trades so that the only way to exit out of the market is lossing $10000 or winning 4% per trade. The results were actually better that i have expected: 12% compounded interest rate, what do u say about this?. Try it if u have tradesim, i did write this here because i never thinked in this way but it could actually work, funny isn`t it? reversing the rule cut your losses short and let your profits run :)) ....so simple...
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