Hi Larry
I'm no brilliant mind but back in 2009 I did create a template that crudely resembles candlestick price bars. It's purpose is to show Heikin-Ashi prices rather than regular OHLC prices. Candlesticks are created by overlaying various values in a selection of colours and in the histogram style. Sadly there are more drawbacks than advantages to the method. Nevertheless it does do what I required of it, which was to show that it is possible to approximate candlestick bars. PNG images of the two templates have been uploaded to Files section of this group. The file names are H-A chart BW.png and H-A chart RB.png. I can send you a download link for the self-installing EXE file if you'd like to check it out further. In fact anyone wanting to download the file need only email me at [email protected] (I won't be posting the link here). Regards Roy ----- Original Message ----- From: L.P. Carhartt To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:37 AM Subject: RE: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: MetaStock 12 EOD and Third Party Data Patience has never been much of a virtue of mine, so I called Equis again. MetaStock 12 will not and can not use local price datafiles. The Downloader will continue to be distributed, but will no longer be updated. You can retrieve data using the Downloader, but MS12 cannot use it. This is the reason third party price data vendors and price data sources (like Monsoor's Utilities) can no longer be used with MS12. MS12 does not use local data.. Plug-ins and Add-ins will continue to work as usual. For those familiar with my work of using .csv files (breadth data on ETFs) with MetaStock via a plug-in, the plug-in will continue to work as usual. This means that local data can be used in the new MS12, but only as values, not as price data (for bar charts and candle charts, etc.). This has always been the case though. If any of you brilliant minds out their can figure out how to make a bar chart from four separate values, I would greatly like to hear it. Thanks, again. Best, Larry L. P. Carhartt MasterDATA office: 818-701-6686 fax: 866-428-6849 http://www.MasterDATA.com [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of L.P. Carhartt Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 1:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: MetaStock 12 EOD and Third Party Data I just spoke with Equis regarding the version 12 and datafeeds. Here is what I remember of the conversation: Reuters Datalink remains exactly the same. So older MetaStock versions will continue to work with the data. The difference is all in MetaStock version 12 and how it permissions and retrieves the data from Reuters. MS12 moves away from local storage of data in favor of pulling the data from Reuters servers as needed. The person I spoke with, assures me that this will cause no slowdown in filters or any MetaStock function. I assume that local data storage is still possible, but I don't know. Maybe someone else will ask, because I did not ask that question. For real time users, eSignal stopped supporting third party software last year and probably will not work with the new version. There is, however, Reuters Icon. It is a real time feed from Reuters, available now, and compatible with MS12. Eventually it will have an API similar to eSignal's which allows data to be used directly by programs outside software. For me, this works because I currently use both eSignal and Reuters Datalink (EOD). When Reuters Icon offers an "API" I will switch to that only and have the best of all worlds and save some money too. Reuters Icon also provides delayed global quotes at no additional charge or real time for a small added fee plus exchange fees. So my guess is, assuming local price file storage is still accommodated, most third party datafeeds may work (including Monsoor's utilities). I should have asked, but maybe someone else can nail it down. If local price file storage is still allowed, virtually nothing changes. Third party data sources never could use the Downloader anyway. If local price file storage is not allowed, then everything changes as previously discussed here in the forum. Thanks all and good luck. Especially you guys dealing with hurricane Sandy on the US East Coast. Best, Larry L. P. Carhartt MasterDATA office: 818-701-6686 fax: 866-428-6849 http://www.MasterDATA.com [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JohnathanStein Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 8:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: MetaStock 12 EOD and Third Party Data >>Buy = <buy condition> AND IsIndexConstituent("$RUA"); Richard -- Is this an AmiBroker addon function your software provides? --Johnathan ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7640 (20121029) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7640 (20121029) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
