MetaStock 6.0 for Win95
UPGRADE -- Equis International has released MetaStock 6.0 for the Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 operating environments. MetaStock 6.0 technical analysis and charting program is a native 32-bit application designed for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 and allows multithreading, long file names, Click & Pick, Drag & Drop, and other Windows features. MetaStock is Microsoft Office 97­p;compatible.
MetaStock 6.0 provides free security quotes over the Internet as well as Equis's online resources and other online financial information. Charts produced from MetaStock can be faxed or sent via E-mail in bitmap format and can be saved as HTML files for publication on the Internet.
Other interface enhancements include drop-down calendars, integer spin controls, "apply" buttons in properties dialogs and floating/docking Data Window and toolbars. The Find feature scans the entire hard disk to find a security. Many improvements to existing features have been made as well.
The new Expert Advisor posts trading advice from market experts with alerts, signals and commentary. Users can also import new expert advisories created by other traders or even create experts with their own conditions and criteria.
The price of MetaStock 6.0 for Windows 95 or Windows NT, which includes The DownLoader and OptionScope companion programs, is $349. OptionScope and The DownLoader are also available as stand-alone products for $49 and $99, respectively.
Equis International, Inc.
3950 South 700 East, Suite 100
Salt Lake City, UT 84107
Phone: 800 882-3040, 801 265-9996. Fax: 801-265-3999
Internet: www.equis.com. CompuServe: GO EQUIS
Prodigy: Money Talk BB/Investment Tools/META
America Online: Keyword EQUIS
New features include advanced pre- and post-processing capabilities, additional extraction routines, a batch capability and use of the tab key to perform all modeling tasks from one window. ModelQuest Expert explains its results by indicating the relative importance of each variable for a given estimate. It also provides an overall assessment of relative variable importance for a model.
AbTech Corporation
1575 State Farm Boulevard
Charlottesville, VA 22911
Phone: 804 977-0686
Internet: https://www.abtech.com
Users can browse documents and select examples to imitate for producing press releases, company reports, comparative analysis and other reports. The database also includes quotes and news with technical and fundamental market analysis.
The Telescan Assistant software is $49 with a 30-day free trial period. Online time begins at $99 a month.
Telescan, Inc.
5959 Corporate Drive, Suite 2000
Houston, TX 77036
Phone: 713 588-9700. Fax: 713 588-9797
Internet: https://www.telescan.com.
Products are offered for switching multiple computers from one control point; splitting computer ports to multiple keyboards, monitors and mice; and extending peripherals up to 250 feet away from the computer. Also provided are configurations with important pin out and cable information. Most products feature smaller sizes and lower prices. Other products appear for the first time in an NTI catalog, including a console switch that allows eight users to share up to 32 computers.
NTI units connect between computers and peripherals and require no special tools or software. All come with a 30-day guarantee.
Network Technologies Inc.
1275 Danner Drive
Aurora, OH 44202
Phone: 800 742-8324, 216 562-7070.
The long-distance service provided by AT&T's Worldwide Intelligent Network will combine with INTERSAT's customer desktop features to enable users to assemble their own custom broadcast fax groups and send information to them simultaneously with a few keystrokes.
INTERSAT delivers real-time voice and data information via satellite from financial exchanges, commodity and options firms, clearing houses and trading partners. The new agreement with AT&T allows customers to utilize INTERSAT desktop broadcast fax technology without necessitating the use of satellite transmission.
INTERSAT
10 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 1240
Chicago, IL 60606
Phone 312 441-2700. Fax: 312 441-2709.
MarketExpert's internal expert system will analyze stocks based on more than 200 technical rules. It then displays a daily or weekly technical outlook.
The program includes a communications package and a free 30-day data subscription to Dial Data. The data subscription, free for 30 days, allows the user to download an unlimited number of stocks, including a six-month history on each.
AIQ Systems
PO Box 7530, 916 Southwood Blvd.
Incline Village, NV 89452
Phone 702 831-2999. Fax 702 931-6784
Internet: https://www.AIQ.com.
The user can also prototype a trading system in Microsoft Excel and then replicate the preprocessing capability of these add-ins in TradeStation or SuperCharts for real-time application.
Jurik Research Software
Suite 237, 686 South Arroyo Pkwy.
Pasadena, CA 91105
Phone: 213 258-4860. Fax: 213 258-0598
Internet: https://www.jurikres.com.
INVESTMENT RECOMMENDATIONS
ON INTERNET
Nelson Publications has made available over the Internet its summary of Wall Street analysts' investment recommendations on more than 5,000 US public companies. For the past 20 years, Nelson Publications has gathered information from investment research firms and disseminated it to institutional investors. Selections from that database are now available to individual investors as part of the Investor's Edge Web site (www.InvestorsEdge.com), a source of stock quotes and financial information on the Internet, and on Nelson's own Web site.Complete Nelson company research summaries are $10 for 10 summaries and include a company profile, a list of research firms following the company, consensus earnings estimates and headlines from recently published research reports.
Investor's Edge is a free Internet information service offering stock quotes, price charts, a personal portfolio monitor, corporate reports, news headlines and indices.
Nelson Publications
1 Gateway Plaza, PO Box 591
Port Chester, NY 10573
Phone: 914 937-8400. Fax: 914 937-8908
Internet: https://www.nelnet.com.### BUSINESS INFORMATION DATABASE
Dun & Bradstreet Information Services (D&B) has begun providing customers with online access to information on more than 40 million businesses around the world.D&B provides access to its business database through its Windows-based DunsLink 3.0 software. The new service allows users to retrieve the company's standard business reports on US companies. For international information, customers can access D&B's WorldBase, a global business database with information on 40 million businesses worldwide, which also provides D&B's international reports.
With D&B's WorldBase, businesses can access international reports for printing, storing and managing.
Phone: 800 234-3867. Fax: 512 794-7670
Internet: https://www.dbisna.com.### ELECTRONIC INFORMATION FOR THE MAC
Dow Jones Business Information Services has released a software interface for Macintosh users. The Dow Jones News/Retrieval, the Dow Jones News/Retrieval-Private Investor Edition and Dow Jones News/Retrieval-Technical Analyst Edition. Both software versions will be provided free of charge to subscribers using Macintosh computers.Dow Jones News/Retrieval-Private Investor Edition links subscribers to fundamental market data and the full text of many business publications. Dow Jones News/Retrieval-Technical Analyst Edition links subscribers to a targeted set of databases that comprise a source of historical pricing data.
Dow Jones News/Retrieval-Private Investor Edition costs $29.95 per month. Dow Jones News/Retrieval-Technical Analyst Edition costs $39.95 per month. Both services are provided from 7:01 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday through Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday.
Dow Jones Business Information Services, the electronic publishing arm of Dow Jones & Company, provides business and financial news and information products to corporations and private investors through a variety of electronic media, including the personal computer, telephone, facsimile and radio.
Dow Jones Business Information Services,
a division of Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
PO Box 300
Princeton, NJ 08543-0300
Phone: 800 522-3567, ext. 53.### NEURAL NETWORK PRODUCT
NeuroDimension has released version 3.0 of its neural network simulation environment, NeuroSolutions for Windows. Version 3.0 adds improved usability and software extensibility.Version 3.0 also provides add-in modules for Microsoft Excel to simplify construction, training and analyzing the results of a neural network. The user highlights in Excel the segments of data he or she wants to use for training, cross-validation and testing. Then the user steps through configuration panels to prepare the neural network for training.
The training module offers several methods for training the network, each producing a graphical report summarizing the training results. Finally, the testing module allows the user to run a test data set through the trained network to determine how well the network learned the process being modeled.
Version 3.0 is compliant with the OLE server, and NeuroSolutions 3.0 can be integrated with Excel and all other OLE server applications, giving users the ability to write their own scripts. Prices range from $195 to $1,995.
NeuroDimension, Inc.
1800 N. Main St., Suite D4
Gainesville, FL 32609
Phone: 800 634-3327, ext. 192, 352 377-5144, ext. 192. Fax: 352 377-9009. Internet: https://www.nd.com/### MUTUAL FUND
The Volumetric Fund, begun in 1978, relies on a proprietary system of technical analysis that measures the flow of money into and out of stocks by volume activity. A recent enhancement to the fund's system is a strength index that seeks out high-strength stocks. Prospectus available.Volumetric, Inc.
87 Violet Drive
Pearl River, NY 10965
Phone: 800 541-3863.### NEW VERSION OF STATISTICAL SOFTWARE
Minitab is a statistical and mathematical modeling software package for Windows. Enhancements for the latest release, Release 11, include advanced statistics operations, more effective data handling, a design-of-experiments interface, quality-control additions and greater ease of use.Added statistical features include logistic regression, correspondence analysis, polynomial regression and survival analysis. Logistic regression enables users to analyze binary, ordinal or nominal variables and automatically generate diagnostic graphs. Correspondence analysis allows users to explore relationships in a contingency table. Polynomial regression models curvature between response and predictor variables. Survival analysis assesses data such as how long products last before breaking, foods' shelf-life or patients' survival rates after medical treatment.
Release 11 also improves the data manipulation capabilities to provide a more spreadsheet-like worksheet. Minitab now works with date and time data and offers easier data importation. New user-friendly features include toolbar enhancements and longer column names, right-click shortcut menus and text output that retains its formatting.
Unit prices are $895 for commercial customers and $495 for academic customers. Network licenses and international pricing information can be obtained from Minitab or its distributors.
Minitab
3081 Enterprise Dr.
State College, PA 16801
Phone: 814 238-3280.### INVESTMENT SOFTWARE CATALOG
Anderson Investor's Software has published a software catalog called Investor's Software. It lists software products for investors of small- to medium-sized net worth, with almost 100 products from more than 40 manufacturers. Software categories range from technical and fundamental analysis to real estate to business ventures. For example, readers can choose from software to help with charting, managing portfolios, raising capital for businesses, analyzing real estate or retirement planning. The catalog also covers databases and data services. The 16-page color catalog is free.Anderson Investor's Software, Inc.
7536 Forsyth Blvd., Suite 337
St. Louis, MO 63105-3402
Phone: 800 286-4106. Fax: 314 863-4730.### SPREADSHEET ADD-IN FOR OPTIONS
Sarkett & Associates has released a version of its Option Wizard software for the IBM. Previously, the program was only available for the Macintosh platform. Option Wizard is a Microsoft Excel 4.0 or 5.0 template for pricing puts and calls. It shows Black-Scholes formulas and premium time decay in tabular form. The program can be customized.A trial copy costs $29.95 plus $4.95 shipping.
Sarkett & Associates, Inc.
485 Sunset Rd.
Winnetka, IL 60093
Phone: 708 446-2222
E-mail: jas@interaccess.com
Internet: https://homepage.interaccess.com/~jas/option_wizard.html.###
