In the 2003 Bonus Issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities Magazine, Equis' products had a fantastic showing in the Reader's Choice Awards.

These awards are voted on by traders actually using these trading products. Winning these awards says extraordinary things about the products, because it is not some editor selecting the winners, but those using the product day in and day out making a living trading the markets.

We at Equis develop products with the trader's success in mind and are proud of the products we develop. We would also like to thank those readers who voted for our products.

Here are the awards that MetaStock and our other products garnered:

• MetaStock - The Winner in the Standalone Analytical Software between $200 & $499 category. This is the tenth year in a row that MetaStock has won this award. No other software has won in this category.
• MetaStock Professional - The Winner in the Standalone Analytical Software, $500 and above category. This is the very first year MetaStock Pro has won this award. It has been the first runner up for the past couple years.
• Reuters DataLink - The First Runner Up in the End-of-day data category.
• Chart Pattern Recognition (A MetaStock plug-in) - The Winner in the Plug-in category.
• Bollinger Band System (A MetaStock plug-in) - The First Runner Up in the Plug-in category.
• Nison's Candlesticks Unleashed (A MetaStock plug-in) - The Finalist in the Plug-in category.

The Reader's Choice awards are broken down into these levels:

• Winner (only one awarded)
• First Runner Up (usually just one, sometimes two awarded)
• Finalist (one or more)
• Semi-finalist (one or more)
• Honorable Mention (one or more)