Thanks mate-appreciate your advice- I hope the next version simply leaves the indicator there but blank instead of removing it from the chart so it doesnt need to be reloaded after every failure- Ill try to do the forum dll coding etc! Appreciate your advice as always  

Im trying to use the following for the bear market indicator in an expert, using weekly charts. It keeps getting error messages because of periods out of range. I tried using the cum() function and cant get it to work. So it stops on most charts flagging the error. The formula is below, and the issue is that it contains moving average of 70-100 ...

Im a longtime user but always have problems understanding  the settings for system tester.   I try to use formula with 7% trailing stop, and I always end up getting trades which last only 1 day- I know its the settings- anyone help?

Hi- I upgraded the downloader to 10.1 and I now find all of my data on charts and in the downloaded shown as fractions, not decimals, for instance a price of $10.50 shows up as 10.24/48. Anybody know how to get everythingt back to decimals and keep it that way?   Thanks!

Thanks for the responses. There isnt a code error- the issue is that the chart contains an indicator which is based on say 500 periods of data- when scrolling thru a sector full of symbols, the newer symbols have less data periods and that triggers the message- MS should really allow the user to turn messages off/on- thanks again

Does anyone know how to deactivate error messages on chart- those messages are a pain - is there a way to deactivate-? I know how to click dont show again, buy when I scroll thru a bunch of securities, it comes up again- I want to turn off the error message function completely- anyone know how?   Also, when using an expert at the top of a ...

Thanks Hayseed-   That changes the security description i guess- ive got say 4 charts in a template/layout- i want 1 to read ''Trend analysis'' the second- Oscillators, etc but all 4 deal with the same security-   the system default is that all charts have the layout name, with chart 1,2,3,4 etc- i dont think your approach via the ...

Does anyone know how to give each chart in a template layuot its own description that appears at the top of the chart- i now have the layout name, follwed by the security and ''chart1,2,etc)- Id like each to have a decsriptive name but cant seem to do it-

Thanks Bill- ill try that- appeciate the response

Thanks Hayseed- i ve been away- im trying to offload like 100 symol lists of data into 100 separate files with 1 click- will your suggestion do that?

Does anyone know if it is possible to ''offload'' a group of individual data files (price/volume files) for use in other applications (Bulkowskis patter recognition for instance). I want to select a group of about 120 securities, and easily offload each into single files for each one. I would then want to update each every 2-3 days. Any way to ...

Thanks fable- Ill try it!

Recently I find that the explorer does not clear out prior securities from an expoloration. For instance, run an exploration on 3 stocks, get results. Clear the first securities from the exploration list, add a new list of securities to explore , and the results show results on not only the final group selected, but also on the first group which ...

PTJ-   Thats fantastic- thanks a lot for the info and link- I am using the function in another program, Stratasearch, and I think its superb- its great for locating stocks that are at their trendlines which is frequently a great support point. I doont get too much into the technicals of the article but find the tool ...

November TA/Stocks and Commodities has a very interesting article and formula on trendlines. All of the other major packages contributed the code, but Metastock is not even represented- It would be great to have the formula but to know that MS is side-by-side with the others at least -