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I have to agree with Andrew. In my other post I didn't directly
answer your post regarding the book you were talking about, but from
the parts of it I've read, I am of the same opinion.
For $250, you should get a lot more than a repeat of the MS's free
programming primer. Fortunately, when I read the excerpts from it, I
was alreay past that point in the learning curve and didn't spend the
money on it.
As you read in my other post, I also agree with Andrew regarding
Roy's newsletter. For selfish reasons, I wish Roy's newsletter had
been here sooner. It's amazing that after all these years of
programming in the frustrating function language, I learn something
new every time I read one of Roy's articles.
One other thing I did to learn coding was copy a lot of code from the
various sites and take the code apart. That's when I started finding
errors. At first I trusted everything published in TASC, but as I got
better at coding I would write my own version of the indicators in
the magazine and found that some of the code published was incorrect
also. Sometimes the errors in it produced only small discrepancies
from the correct code, but the errors were enough to give incorrect
signals.
Equis has told me directly that only about 5% of the people who buy
MS care about writing their own code. I'm sure they know their
numbers but it is somewhat amazing to me that the other 95% find the
built-in functions in MS adequate to do much trading. Maybe that's
why so many people give up after losing money.
--- In equismetastock@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Tomlinson"
<andrew_tomlinson@c...> wrote:
>
>
> Personally I didn't get much out of it. 70% of it is just repeating
the
> manual . There are one or two interesting examples but it all
pretty basic.
> Not much on coding hints and no mention of all the problems with
system
> tester. I'm actually rather embarrassed I fell for the hype and
bought it.
>
> If you haven't read it, the most useful first step after the manual
itself
> is the Formula Guide (available for free on the files area of this
group).
> Then for programming and system testing see the old posts on this
group. If
> you're interested in coding for yourself (and you can't go very far
with
> Metastock if you don't code) then Roy's newsletter is a great place
to go.
>
> Has anyone found any of the Metastock guides useful? I've gone
through
> several and been very disappointed. For me, I kept on thinking that
there
> must be some trick to using the program which would make it easier
to use
> and spent more money than I should have done on regurgitations of
the manual
> like this guide. I've gradually come to the realization that the
serious
> user base is small enough that Equis don't seem to think its worth
their
> while to make a whole series of obvious improvements and bug fixes
which
> would double the usability of the program.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: carluchiv [mailto:cvejar@c...]
> Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 5:43 PM
> To: equismetastock@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] MetaStock Reading Material
>
>
>
> Has anyone here read the "MetaStock Programming Study Guide"
written by
> David Jenyns and Stuart McPhee? The book comes bundled with some
other stuff
> and costs about $240 American dollars. Can anyone compare it with
the
> "MetaStock Programming Study Guide", which is about the same price?
>
>
>
>
>
>
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