Quote from gmst:
Good points. Imo, aim of this promotion is to motivate ninja users to try MC and to target people who trade just 1/2 products and don't need to scan.
Regarding stunning reveiws. It is very hard to get a reasonable review for any product imo. There are various reasons for it:
1) Most of the customers who have bought a product will always be careful in criticizing the product - since in a way they are criticizing their own decisions since they bought the product and who wants to be proven wrong (who wants to experience cognitive dissonance).
2) Most of the customers in this business are amateurs, people who are trying to become profitable. For this set of people, it is hard to really understand what a super-good product can do for them. E.g. someone who has never used a dom, might find it hard to understand the specifics of a good dom.
3) For most people, it takes time to really understand the limitations of a product. Only when you start coding hard and complex things, do you start discovering limiations of easylanguage etc.
4) Most of these software vendors (MC, Ninja, Amibroker etc.) are sponsors on most of trading forums. So, to expect forum owners to allow uninterrupted criticism is to expect too much.
5) Till last year, MC was enough for all my needs. But now I have outgrown MC and I am having to create a lot of infrastructure for my own use.
So, all-in-all I would say - MC is a good basic product for beginner traders - it allows them to avoid getting stuck into data management issues, it already has most of the basics built-in. So, it allows beginners to start creating strategies very quickly. However, as a trader becomes an advanced trader, he is forced to go down the route of writing either add-ons or creating alternative infrastructure to service his needs.