Think of the Explorer as your market-wide filter — the natural starting point of every trading day. When you're faced with thousands of instruments and hundreds of possible systems, the Explorer lets you cut through the noise immediately.

You define the criteria: a specific indicator setup, a price pattern, a volume condition — whatever your strategy calls for. The Explorer scans the entire market against those rules and returns a ranked, sortable list of candidates in seconds. You start each session already knowing which instruments are worth your time, rather than scrolling charts one by one hoping something catches your eye.

The Explorer feeds directly into the next step: once you have a shortlist, those are the charts you bring into the Expert Advisor.

You've found your candidates. Now the question is: what are the charts actually telling you?

Stop guessing what your indicators mean. The Expert Advisor integrates professional-grade insight directly into your charting workflow — plotting clear buy and sell signals on the chart itself, alongside expert-style commentary that explains exactly what each indicator is showing and what triggered every signal.

This isn't just labeling. The commentary reads like having an experienced trader sitting next to you, walking through the chart in plain language. For newer traders it's an accelerated education. For experienced traders it's a second opinion and a discipline check. Either way, you leave the chart with a clear read — not a hunch.

The Expert Advisor is where you form a thesis. The System Tester is where you prove it.

You have a thesis. Now prove it before you risk a dollar.

The System Tester lets you take any trading system — one of MetaStock's built-in systems or one you've built yourself — and run it against years of historical data across any instrument or set of instruments. You see every simulated trade: entry, exit, profit or loss, drawdown, win rate. You can compare multiple systems side by side and optimize parameters to find the settings that perform best historically.

This is where confidence comes from. Not from a feeling about a chart, but from data. You'll know exactly how a strategy has behaved across different market conditions before you commit real capital. That changes how you trade — and how you handle the inevitable losing stretches, because you've already seen them in the backtest.

Once you have a validated system, FORECASTER helps you apply it with precision.

You have a validated strategy and a setup you believe in. The final question is: where precisely should you enter, set your stop, and target your exit?

The MetaStock FORECASTER uses advanced, patent-pending technology to analyze recurring historical price patterns and project probable future price paths directly on your chart. It doesn't predict the future — it shows you where price has gone historically when it looked like this, giving you a statistically informed range of likely outcomes.

That context transforms how you set your levels. Instead of placing a stop based on a round number or a gut feel, you're placing it based on where the pattern suggests price is unlikely to reach unless your thesis is wrong. Your profit targets become grounded in what the pattern has historically delivered — tightening your risk/reward and improving trade quality over time.

FORECASTER is the precision layer that completes the workflow.