yo bruce, very intersting points you've raised. first, yep it is the
right congference, the only other one i'm aware of is the local finance
conference on the melbourne pcug, which btw is the best bbs i've come
across in the country...to software issues et al. you will probably find
that most who respond to your points will being using the following.
almax from melbourne to download end of day share market data, the
package microstock includes a not too bad win software package which
distributes the custom downloaded data into your metastock files. next
most people seem to use the following packages to view the data.
supercharts - quite popular but too yankee in concept, the latest
version 3 is ok and has some useful analysis tools, but a word of
warning, i got a floating point error twice the other day doing a simple
macd chart scan of the asx. and no i'm not using a pentium 90, it's a
late model 100, so the prob lies with sc 3. i think by far the more
useful program for share owners is parity plus version 1-5. it is us
made but international in its applicability. i would recommend it any
day over sc. it also allows you to do sophisticated data management the
likes of which can only been foundon almax's custom software. for your
own personal finances/tax issues i recommend quicken BUT if you've not
used quicken before and are a win95 user forget it and go for money for
windows 95 it is simply superb, if you download it from the msn before
cob 1/11/95 it's free except for 26 mins download time (a few dollars
max) you can get the cd rom form ms for $15 upgrade or $25+ full
version. i have recently downloaded a prog recommended by an adelaide
user of this conf called stable technical garphs version 2-2, you can
find the internet address by reading earlier messages on this conf or
ask me and i'll upload it to a central (sydney or melb bbs). ther is
also an expensive program $1300+ called trade statio which i don't
anything about except where you can get it. actually i've been mulling
over whether to check it out or not since sc 3 has turned out to be such
an absolute DOG. hope  this ramble has been of some help, if you need
anything clarified just ask...regards

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