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

To: Richard Estes who wrote (2504)	12/7/1998 7:47:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

*I gave up on smart charts long before QP, have always kept it off.* Probably because even with TC2000 the position of the stock in the exported would change as stocks were added and deleted. This same issue is what causes the page saving problems in GET as well. Fortunately that problem is gone now with GET reading QP Data for me. It really doesn't have to be that way. Just need a little creative programming. The problem with get pages could be solved if instead of directly accessing element 53 it did a lookup to see where IBM currently was and not assume it was still located in location 53. Technifilter+ has the problem that is does this lookup evertime on the whole 23,000 entries of the QP2DATA (over a 1 minute) and doesn't build a memory resident lookup table as GET does. Clay indicates he is working on this. Potentitally the smartcharts problem could be solved by the qp metastoclk output program or qp_lc. It could renumber the filename for the smartchart file to match the new location each time it updated dynamically by reading the directory first to determine the source location,output new data, then re-number smart chart information. This would of course depend on whether the smartchart file itself had embedded position specific references. One could test this theory by creating a directory with 1 stock in it. Create a smart chart for it. Delete Data except smartchart file. insert a another symbol as the first entry in the list, re-export data. rename the smart file to match the new position and see if it works. If so Gary might consider such a solution. On the other front TF+ seems more than capable. Its charting is not as robust as MS. But, its data handling features when completed will be excellent rivaling TC2000 in this aspect. The Scanning is excellent as well. Haven't worked out the tester yet. TF+ also has builtin automation for running nightly batch jobs. Its work in progress with respect to the QP2 integration but its far more robust than what GET currently offers. It boggles my mind that GET for all its glory can't import or export a simple ascii list of symbols. Sean