I agree that metastock does not add anything useful for many years. i have made many suggestions for them to improve the basic platform. all they do is add fluff.
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > It may even be worse. My Ms 11 has stopped working. It now displays the > following error message. > > Metastock licence required > File astsrv.exe is not current version > > Let’s face it the useless types have taken over Ms and it hasn’t improved > much since Ms 7. Only the prices have gone up. Very disappointing. I am > looking for a replacement. > > *From:* Joe C. <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, December 24, 2012 10:56 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: MetaStock 12 EOD and Third > Party Data > > > > They designed version 12 so that it will only work with only data > vendors that are part of Thomson Rueters. > > Both Reuters End of Day and Xenith or what ever they want to call it is > part of Thomsonrueters. With both Xenith and Quote Center, the core data > is from Thomsonrueters. Xenith is just wrapped differently to give you all > the fundamental information we don't need nor use. I was told that once > you use version 12 with Xenith, then they will disable your Quote Center > after a couple months. Why, I don't know. > > Sounds like once they deactivate your Quote Center, you won't be able to > go back to previous verion 11 and 10 or 9. > > I was told by the people from Metastock that version 12 will not read any > data on your c drive anymore. For different reasons, I need to have the > data on my C drive. At some point, there will be a windows version out > there where version 11 will no longer work with that new version of > windows. At that point, anybody with version 11 and before that has data > on the c drive is kaput. > > What are the other good programs out there that will let an individual > read the F1.DAT and F1.DOP formats? Would they be compatible with the code > for Metastock? > > Joe > > ------------------------------ > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:58:00 +0000 > Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: MetaStock 12 EOD and Third Party Data > > > Believe it! > > I upgraded from Version 11 to MetaStock 12 on 20 Dec 2012...Called them on > 21st Dec for a refund. First MetaStock program which I have returned. > > > Bottom line - if you are out of WiFi/internet range the program is > worthless. Cannot Open or do anything with it. This rules out taking your > laptop on vacation or weekends in a lodge,, where you do not have internet > connection, and expecting you will do some exploring/testing of formulas. > No amount of "Spin" alters that fact. > > Hold on to your previous versions.... > > Bill > --- In [email protected], "Roy" wrote: > > > > > > Re MetaStock 12 EOD and third party data suppliers. > > > > Has anyone purchased MS 12 EOD and established if an existing > (non-Reuters) data provider can still be used? Equis sales have assured me > that I must subscribe to their data feed, but I'm not sure that I believe > what I've been told. Thanks. > > > > Roy > > > > > >
