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

To: William H Huebl who wrote (1200)	12/7/1997 4:24:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4056

Bill, most likely culprit with metastock crashes is your video driver. Make sure you have a current video driver loaded. Have you loaded any direct-x win95/nt games lately?? This whole concept of letting games install video drivers is a sick concept. Some are more well behaved than others but they have caused me more grief in the last two years than just about anything else. (we like to play games at my house). Sean

To: William H Huebl who wrote (1200)	12/7/1997 7:02:00 PM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

Bill, You didn't mention running Win95 Diskscan, that's the first thing I'd try. 2nd idea would be running the program against a freshly built data directory. CL

To: William H Huebl who wrote (1200)	12/7/1997 7:11:00 PM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4056

Anyone - I've been using TC2000 for data, then running their datacon.exe to convert to a Metastock directory ( for version 6.5 ). With less than 255 stocks this was a piece of cake. Now I'm trying to figure out how to manage the process with more than 256 stocks. I understand that Metastock 6.5 can handle more than 256, but datacon can't, at least not in one pass. I don't mind splitting data into two or more directories if I can make the separation along the lines of Indicies and Mutual Funds vs. Possible longs vs. possible shorts or somesuch. I'm not too keen on separating just by alphabetical or random. I expect the number of stocks I track to stay between 300 to 500. Thanks for any ideas. CL