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You need to calm down before you fire off emails next time. You didn't
offend me, and I really don't care however I think this one hurt your
creditbility. First of all on you list of suggestions to Equis. Your #
7 on the list can be done with MetaStock 6.5. Is this what you wanted
something like this mov(C,12,E)-mov(C,26,E);Mov(
mov(C,12,E)-mov(C,26,E),9,E). This will plot two moving averages just
like the MACD.
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:10:02 -0700 Chip Anderson <chipa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
>| What you want to do makes perfect sense, and I think is a major
>oversight
>| in Meta Stock to have left this feature out. Unfortunately the
>downfall
>of
>| most software applications that involve Trading is that they are
>developed
>| by people with expertise in Software Development not Trading!
>
>Here, here!! After using MS 6.0 and 6.5 for a couple of months now,
>it is
>_very_ obvious that Equis has not done any Useability testing on the
>product with real-world technicians. I guess they assumed that by
>emulating MS Office, they wouldn't need to Useability test it - wrong!
>
>Examples (off the top of my head):
>
>1. Almost impossible to create indicators that work on more than 1
>price.
> You have to create a composite file in the Downloader - lame!
>Even there
>you are limited to combining just 2 prices and using simple arithmetic
>
>operators. Try creating a chart of your portfolio - if you have more
>than
>1 stock in it, you're in for a really hard time.
>
>2. Downloader doesn't interact with MS Excel.
> In theory, using MS Excel is a great way to get around the
>problem above.
> But the Downloader doesn't update your Excel files, so you must
>update
>them manually every night (yuck) or create very complicated and
>fragile
>macros to update things for you (double yuck).
>
>3. Doesn't save the width of your charts.
> I am constantly rescaling my charts each time I load them.
>This is
>inexcusable! When I save a chart and then reload it, I expect to see
>the
>same thing!
>
>4. Notes on charts don't scale when you zoom in or out.
> Combine this fact with #3 above and you can forget about
>having nicely
>maintained annotated charts.
>
>5. Having Trend Lines and Chart Notes disappear when you switch from
>Daily
>to Weekly mode.
> Lame, lame, lame!
>
>6. Applying a template creates a whole new chart.
> That is plain wrong. Apply the template to the current chart.
>
>7. If you print in black and white, your chart GIFs are stored in
>black and
>white.
> Like there is a correlation between people with B/W printers
>(everyone)
>and people with B/W web sites (no one!). (I admit that this one is
>kind of
>minor, but it is a great example of lack of useability testing.)
>
>8. Volume bars can't change color for up/down days.
> Hello? This is critical for visual volume trend analysis.
>
>9. No vertical scrollbars or chart windows
> ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!
>
>10. Saving charts does not save custom vertical axis settings.
> (See comment for #9)
>
>=================
>
>In addition to fixing the things above, here's are some suggested
>improvements:
>
> 1. Always show the Profit/Loss of any buy/sell arrows on my
>chart
> 2. Allow me to "manually" set buy/sell points on my chart
> 3. Create "palettes" of colors that I can apply to an existing
>chart.
> 4. Indicator functions should understand "default" parameters
>so I don't
>have to constantly look them up.
> 5. Auto-draw trendlines and Support/Resistance Levels
> 6. Allow me to create indicators with parameters that I can
>a.) set in the
>properties dialoag and b.) optimize in the system tester.
> 7. Allow me to create indicators that are visually composed of
>several
>other indicators (kinda like MACD's 2 lines)
> 8. Make it trivially easy to compare the relative strength of
>one or more
>securities/indicators.
>
>=================
>
>The above may make you think I hate the product - that's not true. I
>use
>it constantly and find it of great value. Like anything I use alot
>though,
>its faults get magnified in my mind. MS 6.5 is great in so many areas
>that
>these seemingly minor things really detract from my overall experience
>and
>make me question if it was useability tested at all.
>
>Please take my ramblings as the constructive criticism they are meant
>to
>be.
>
>Thanks,
>Chip
>
>
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