hey joesb213  ..... i got your pm and will try to write something up today for you.....  it might take us a few attempts cause key terms can be missunderstood between languages..... but we will be successful..... you are wise to be employing metastock now...... the last 3 months and the next 6 will most likely be the most ...

dang aren't there some deals out there today.......   not only in the markets but also the marketplace.... dell just  ''made-me-an-offer-i-couldn't-refuse''......  when i went to move meta  to the new laptop, the text doc containing the  license number  in the equis folder is no longer there..... ...

that was using end of day version in the post above, just checked real time version and everything works ok  until i attempt to use anything that has a reference to a datalink symbol in any manner..... i can pull up any datalink symbol or layout using local data but at that point nothing else works.... no symbol from esignal can ...

hey all..... there was some sort of maintence work done over the weekend for datalink.....   i use both esignal and datalink.... tonight  esignal downloads ok  but datalink just locks up..... it's not a time of day issue..... just shootin from the hip, it appears  the downloader program is having difficulty ...

hey joe..... no one wants to loose money but most of us do quite reguarly..... it appears somewhat easier to loose via forex than other markets.....  ibfx has some handy educational information.....  no guarentee to avoid losses but worthwhile reading none the less.....h

hey tl.... i have no ties to equis..... some of your concerns are beyond my scope..... my current systems are dell dual cores, both amd and intel,  vista os..... meta v10, vista versions, have worked better than the comparable meta versions did on xp..... of course the machines are better..... i have esignal pro and qc pro ...

hey paradox.....  somewhere on the forum patrick had posted many basic type expert systems.... lookin at how he coded those can be a big help for us new to meta, or at least was for me..... in the system tester is a system, 'equis moving average',..... those rules would give you an idea of just what to put in the symbols  section, just ...

hey ms leopard.....  what are you refering to as a background image... you can save a chart using save under the the files tab, or save as html......  if your wanting to create an image of your entire screen, which would make an image of eveything on the monitor, you can use the keyboard 'print screen' key..... are you trying to create ...

hey jon.....  the number of records required did not occur to me but you got it..... except it says Records Required: 1.......     records setting should be at least enough bars  to cover the date.....  so if your lookin back a year it would be approx the number trading days in a year.... 250 should cover it.... h

hey jon..... your code looks ok .......  from your post it's not completely clear of the location of your m=11, d=31 and such.... it should appear as below.....h //---------------     Exploration notes  { i changed the date and < just as a check}  Col A: ...

hey metarminator.....  several questions come to mind...... what method are you using to apply the lines.... are you using the horzointal line tool itself.... or is this line being applied by an indicator..... if it's an indicator, are you overlaying the indicator with out scale........ which version of meta are you using and if you just run

hey stocktester..... to sell at a set time after opening you can use the barssince function in a manner like below.....h   buy when 10 crosses the 20 //-------------------------- a:=mov(c,10,s);aa:=mov(c,20,s); cross(a,aa); //-------------------------   sell 3 bars after the 10 crosses the ...