New datafeed from Metastock/Reuters

Metastock Pro FX

Will be checking with them to review what exactly is included for $65 USD/month.

Anyone using this package have comments? Would like to hear:

- How true the data feed is, spikey/hot?
- How reliable the system is? Up all of the time or frequent outages?
- What happens when there is an outage? Is data replaced or will there be a gap of no data for the time the outage took place.
- Quality of technical support
- What specific news is included
- How much historical FX data is included.
- Overall impressions/comments. EX: is this a decent competitive alternative to TradeStation (GFT data feed)?

As per my comments under Forex Brokers >> TradeStation - GFT Feed, looking for a replacement...
 
Metastock Pro FX

I called them. Everything looks great. I am seriously considering switching. I suggest you call them and discuss and review pricing.


- How true the data feed is, spikey/hot?
This is the full Reuters FX Feed. S/B 1st class.


- How reliable the system is? Up all of the time or frequent outages?
S/ have the same up time as other Reuters products.


- What happens when there is an outage? Is data replaced or will there be a gap of no data for the time the outage took place.
The data is scrubbed and replaced when required.


- Quality of technical support
I did not ask, assuming it is good.


- What specific news is included
Reuters News, FX focused and more - almost sounds like the full feed.


- How much historical FX data is included.
Alot, (Perhaps it is * 30 days of tick data, 250 days of intraday historical data, 30 years of daily data and 23 years of fundamental data as posted by just21)


- Overall impressions/comments. EX: is this a decent competitive alternative to TradeStation (GFT data feed)?
It has been out since Monday, June 20, 2005.


*** Does anyone know the convertibility/ease of translation of TradeStation EasyLanguage to Metastock?
 
Metastock Pro FX

Call them for pricing as the internet site is somewhat confusing and they have more than 1 pricing option. I did not post this because I feel that this is in their realm to review it with prospective customers.
 
If you can get any old pro version off ebay (there is one for $1.04 at the moment) there is a free upgrade until 20th of September.
 
Thanks for all of the comments

Any further comparisons between Metastock Pro and TradeStation in terms of charting and technical analysis?

I actually run a lot of charts and workspaces on TradeStation and am trying to determine whether Metastock is capable of running a lot. I do not constantly look at everything, but it is there when needed.
 
Quote from MiamiHurricanes:

Thanks for all of the comments

Any further comparisons between Metastock Pro and TradeStation in terms of charting and technical analysis?
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If I recall correctly, and perhaps someone else can confirm, Metastock cannot do looping in its code, whereas EZLanguage can. That can be a significant shortcoming.
 
Quote from just21:

If you can get any old pro version off ebay (there is one for $1.04 at the moment) there is a free upgrade until 20th of September.
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This is not really true. Equis will need to find you as a registered customer (Purchased a previous version from them or an authorized reseller) before they will give you version 9.1 QuoteCenter for free.

Quote from MiamiHurricanes:

Any further comparisons between Metastock Pro and TradeStation in terms of charting and technical analysis?

I actually run a lot of charts and workspaces on TradeStation and am trying to determine whether Metastock is capable of running a lot. I do not constantly look at everything, but it is there when needed.
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Depends on if you want to have complex formulas calculating on every chart every tick/bar (This can eat up a lot of CPU). If you want several charts with some basic trading indicators/trendlines drawn on them, the software does support sending charts/layouts to multiple monitors. There does seem to be some instability when using their "auto-tile" feature with multiple monitors, but as long as you position the charts on the other monitors yourself, or you use the manual tile/stack/column window options you should be fine.
 
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I am sure you were looking at every last one of them
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Don't really need to, but their Expert Advisor works on a chart-to-chart basis. Attaching an Expert advisor to generate buy/sell/highlights and alerts when conditions occur is a handy benefit of having several charts open at once.
 
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