MetaStock Basic Course – Technical Charting

Learn everything needed to operate efficiently in MetaStock including resizing and manipulating windows, inner windows, toolbars, price plats and indicators, creating layouts, templates, charts and shortcuts and using the Expert Advisor. After the course, it will get you to speed and charting like a professional in no time!

You can learn in the comfort of your home, office meeting room, condo’s multi-purpose hall, void deck, a quiet coffee corner, or wherever you feel comfortable.

You could choose to do it on a one-to-one basis or a small group of three for better interaction purpose. Call Ivan at 9736 4809

We also conduct courses on: Basic and Advanced Technical Analysis, TA Charting Software Training, We also organize talks or seminars on: How to Identify Trading Opportunities, How to Select Stock Using TA, Developing Trading Plan and Strategy. Apply Fibonacci Series & Wave Theory in Trading, etc.

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The Basic Course

Lesson 1 – A Quick Tour
Let's Run Before We Can Walk
The Main Menu
The Toolbars
Resizing the MetaStock Window

Lesson 2 – Click and Pick

Quick Review

Lesson 3 – MetaStock Help Program
Contents
Searching for Help
Context Sensitive Help and the F1 Key
Equis on the Web

Lesson 4 – Dialogs and How They Work
The Application Dialog
Introduction
Creating Favorites
The Tools Drop Down Menu
The Options Drop Down Menu
Plotting Different File Types
Introducing Data on Demand
Move and Resizing Charts

Lesson 5 – The DownLoader Program
Creating New Files
Creating Files with Lookup Command
Creating Composite Securities
Creating Files in MetaStock
The Data Collection Process
Selecting Securities for Collection

Lesson 6 – Displaying Charts
The Chart Window
File Menu
Resizing Charts
The Chart Toolbar and Zooming
More About Zooming
Periodicity and the Refresh Button
The Status Bar
Chart Window Properties
The Y Axis
Arithmetic and Ratio Scale
The Y Axis Facts and Finds
The X Axis
Drag and Drop Scaling
Price Plot Properties
Obtaining On-line Information
Inner Windows
Drag and Drop
Quick Review

Lesson 7 – Displaying Indicators
Selecting and Plotting Indicators
The Indicators Dialog and Editing the Indicator Quicklist
Changing Indicators

Lesson 8 – More On Inner Windows
Moving and Sizing Inner Windows
Inner Window Title and Splitter Bars

Lesson 9 – The Drawing Toolbar
Drawing Trendlines
Trendline Properties
Horizontal Lines and Vertical Lines
Symbols and Shapes

Lesson 10 – Changing the Working Environment
Toolbar Properties
Full Screen Mode
The Custom Toolbar

Lesson 11 – Templates and Layouts
Templates
Saving and Applying Templates
Applying Templates
Layouts
Creating Templates and Layouts with Clones Charts

Lesson 12 – Using the Expert Advisor
Attaching and Detaching Expert Advisors
Expert Advisor Properties

Lesson 13 –Using the Real Time Version of MetaStock
Retrieving Data in Real Time
Configuring Data, File and Vendor Options
Configuring the File and Data Servers