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Strategies & Market Trends : Metastock 6.0 for Window -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (1133)	11/24/1997 4:28:00 PM
From: Greg Butcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

Sean, I down load around 7000 stocks each night, it takes about 1 1/2 hours to do it. (that is a long est..no more than 1.5 hr) To tell you the truth..this may sound odd but I never used the CD. Metastock has the S&P 500 all ready to make a folder. I just made a folder of S&P 500 and all the OTC stocks that Metastock has and down loaded with a 10 year history. Yes..It took all day, but thats how I did it. Never had a problem. WARNING!! It sure eats up your hard drive. Space is used up very fast. I have dumped as much crap as I could. even took off works and stuff like that. But you probably already know this. greg

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (1133)	11/24/1997 4:39:00 PM
From: Clark Wang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

The MS CD is actually useless because Reuters offers unlimited historical data. Another advantage is to download data into several folders seamlessly. For example, you can have several thousand symbols in the main folders. And create a folder for potential trade candidates on a weekly basis. I generally put 100 to 150 symbols into this daily watch list. At the end of the day, first download data into the daily watch list. This is pretty quick (1-2 mins). I can then start to look the charts and download the rest to my main folders (run the explorations, etc.). This saves me some time and have the energy to do the analysis. Just my two cents.

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (1133)	11/25/1997 8:13:00 AM
From: Chandler H. Everett	Respond to of 4056

Sean.......for what it's worth.....I've been using TC2000 data for its own TA program, for GET, and for MSWIN to a small degree. I have also been using Reuters for direct download to MSWIN and have had VERY GOOD experience with it/them. The data is seemless (I think I know what you mean by that) and is very quick, although MSWIN has that problem of only putting 200 or so stocks in a file at a time. It is also very accurate. I've had good service from them, but I know Richard had a terrible time with them a year or so ago, so they are not perfect. BW, and thanks for all the work you do for the group! Chan