Equis International Online Community

About Equis International

Equis International is a wholly owned subsidiary of Reuters—the world's premier global information company, which provides information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Founded in 1982, Equis develops and markets the award-winning MetaStock range of products, which are the premier brand in the charting and technical analysis arena. The MetaStock product suite targeted toward the individual investor includes both real-time and end of day variants of the software along with data subscriptions, plug-ins and third party products. Equis also provides graphics and technical analysis components to the Reuters product line, which serves professional traders in the world's largest financial institutions.

Company Background

Equis Background

Equis, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, was founded in 1982. In 1996, Equis was acquired by Reuters, the world's largest international multimedia information company. Equis now serves as the graphics and technical anaylsis center of excellence for Reuters.

Steve Achelis started Equis International in 1982. Heavily involved in investing at the time, Steve realized that all of the charts and calculations used for analyzing investments could be done by anyone with a personal computer. From this vision, Equis and the MetaStock® product were born.

MetaStock® was first released in late 1985. In its April 15, 1986 issue, PC Magazine awarded The Technician and MetaStock an Editor's Choice Award, and The Technician was featured on the cover. In response to an increasing demand for a real-time version of MetaStock, MetaStock RT™ was released in July of 1992. Since then, Equis has released numerous versions of both the end-of-day and real-time versions of MetaStock.

From the beginning, Steve always worked to make sure that what he was creating would have real value for investors. As a result, Equis has grown into one of the world's leading developers of investment charting and analysis software. Equis now has over 150,000 customers in over 97 countries. Equis' products have received numerous awards, including PC Magazine's Editors' Choice Award and the Readers' Choice Award from Stocks & Commodities Magazine for 10 consecutive years.

Reuters Background

Reuters is the global leader in financial news and information. Some 458,000 financial market professionals working in the equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, money, commodities and energy markets around the world use Reuters products.

Reuters core strengths lie in providing the content, analytics, trading and messaging capabilities needed by financial professionals. Reuters open technology, based on industry standards, enables its customers to search, store and integrate information with content from other sources, facilitating the way they work. Reuters provide financial institutions with specially designed tools to help them reduce risk and distribute and manage the ever-increasing volumes of market data.

Reuters supply news – text, graphics, video and pictures – to media organizations and websites around the world. The company also provides news and research services to businesses outside financial services.

For more information about Reuters, please visit http://about.reuters.com.

Why an Equis International Online Community?

The Equis International Online Forum is the only official peer-to-peer support group sponsored by Equis International. It is a public project designed to promote the use of Equis International Software and Reuters data. Administration and oversight is provided by a core group of experienced and active traders from around the word- people who trade virtually every market and understand traders’ needs and requirements as they pertain to implementing Equis-based solutions.

Equis Technology

Equis International is committed to providing individual traders the best tools and support available in the industry today. Whether you trade stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures, commodities, FOREX, or indices, Equis International has the tools you need for superior market analysis and financial success. Our solutions include:

1. The award winning* MetaStock software which contains powerful analytical tools to help you make informed decisions about what to buy & sell and when to execute to make the most money possible.

* MetaStock is the best selling investment analysis software in the world — it's the 12-time winner of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities Magazine™ Reader's Choice Award for best analysis software.

2. The highly acclaimed Quote Center software which is the most powerful real-time market analysis and news service platform ever released to the individual trader.

3. Reuters data feeds which are supplied from the premiere global information company that provides indispensable information tailored for professionals.

Accolades

"… The response to my problem was so prompt & attended by veterans whom I frankly idolize."

Asish, India

"I want to take this moment to say how grateful I am… I tell you this forum has me excited about owning Metastock. Now I feel that I'm using it for what I bought it for which was to create and test ideas about the market."

Ralph, NY, USA

Join Now!

In order to take full advantage of all the features offered by the Equis International Online Forum, including news, reviews and real time interaction with fellow enthusiasts, you will need to create a free user’s account. You will also be able to:

Post questions, answers and comments on the forums
Contact other forum members
Remember useful content using the Favorites Manager

Contributions Welcome!

There are many ways to contribute to our community. If you have ideas or suggestions, or would like to volunteer for a particular role, please don’t hesitate to let us know! You can contact the Forum Administrator directly for more information.

Copyright Notice

Users may download and print extracts of content from the Web Site for their own personal and non-commercial use only. Republication or redistribution of Equis content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Equis.