Answering a number of questions in one post ---
TC, I have Metastock Pro. Since I purchased the regular MS a long time ago, the upgrade price to MS Pro wasn't as daunting as an outright purchase seems now.
I use Qcharts/Qfeed for data. Supposedly, at some point Metastock intends to support Qfeed. In the mean time I use something called Metaserver RT to bring data into Metastock. This combination has some significant limitations, if I were setting this up again, I'd probably use Esignal with Metastock instead, but I didn't want to subscribe to two different RT data feeds.
Metastock can do a lot of testing and optimizing, but beware of over-optimizing. Something simple like 5/8 crossovers, which works on many stocks, has a better chance of holding up over time than something too finely tuned.
Yes, Metastock can do alerts via Experts attached to charts, I'm not sure how many charts I can keep running at one time. I'm at the point where I feel I need a faster computer to keep all this charting software going. ( PII333 now )
Up until the last couple of weeks I haven't done much with Metastock realtime, I was using Qformula to give me alerts on a breakout system ( on 30 minute charts ) which worked fantastically well while the market was trending from November until March. Now that it's much choppier, I need to use a different system, that's why I'm looking at your 5/8 stuff. |
