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David,
There are countless bugs and I think many of us have understood the
significance of the problem for some time. Some of us going back as
far as 6.5 .
The real question is what can we do about it?
Let me explain a little. I don't know if you noticed or not but Ed
DeSilva is a moderator of this group. You may have noticed some of
his messages in the past. One in particular was a recent request for
problems that we felt needed to be fixed and some add ons that we as
users would like to see.
Ed is a member of the equis staff and let me asure you that he
listens. When I took over as owner of this group one of the things I
wanted to do was make sure that someone from equis was onboard to
hear our concerns and problems and also to get an idea of how we are
using the Metastock product. Ed graciously stepped up to the bat. His
request for guidance and problems has been only one of many offers
which he has brought to this group. Others have been for discounts
and a formula guide which is free here as well as the Equis site.
Back to our original question, what can we and you in particular do?
Why not post a list of all the specific problems you've come across.
As far as mismatches go, I do remember that being discussed here in
the past. Some of the problems that we are aware of include making
sure that an adeguate number bar are loaded and a problem with the
use of exponential moving averages.
Only way to compare notes will be for you to post your problems so
that others may offer input. Please free to do so!
Preston
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "equisdvc"
<david_cardner@xxxx> wrote:
> I have been working with the Equis Technical Support personnel
since
> I purchased v7.0 in June of 2000. The support has been excellent,
so
> when v8.0 was released, I bought it. I had developed my own
trading
> algorithm and was particularly interested in being able to
calibrate
> it against a portfolio of equities with the System Tester.
However,
> I found the number of bugs in v8.0 was overwhelming and I had to
> revert back to using the v7.22 System Tester. My personal
observation
> was that version 8.0 was not even qualified for alpha testing at
the
> time of its release.
>
> I was delighted when v8.01 was released six months later. I
thought
> the bugs had been corrected. I was wrong. I discovered that
v8.01,
> although a big improvement, would barely qualify as a beta test
> version. I was both upset and embarrassed because I had talked two
> friends into buying v8.01.
>
> With both v7.22 and v8.01 on the same computer it is easy to
compare
> System Tester results. The results between the two versions
running
> the identical algorithm are drastically different, regardless of
> whether they are being run in normal or points-only mode. This
occurs
> when v8.01 has been carefully configured to reproduce v7.22
results.
> Bottom line is that v7.22 results make sense, v8.01 results do
not.
> Technical support has not been able to explain the differences, nor
> provide a workable solution. I still do not use v8.01. I use only
> v7.22 because it is the only version that I trust.
>
> What I find unusual is that I can't find any other reference on the
> internet to the mismatch between v7.22 and v8.01 System Tester
> results. In my 43 years of using computers for problem solving,
and
> having written, debugged, and documented roughly 100,000 lines of
> code, one of the primary requirements when modifying programs is
that
> they must be able to correctly reproduce previously validated
> results. This test was obviously not applied to v8.0 or v8.01.
Yet
> it is the only way to validate the changes made to the program.
>
> Is there anyone out there that encountered this situation and
> understands its significance?
>
> David
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