Re: [amibroker] Quotes Plus EPS data

["Joe Landry" <jelandry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed - you have 2 more additional opinions.  I believe that and  just finished a chapter in 
Howard Bandy's book where he addresses the issues of incorporating fundamental data in a trading model.

 

There is a lag as you pointed out between the release of the data and the time period described, and

the historical file will not indicate this. So you could go for the specific date of the release if you have it or you could

build your model with a months delay.

 

JOE

PS. Thanks Howard.   A shipment of books were received by 4 members of our group yesterday in Houston.

----- Original Message -----

From: Edward Pottasch

To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:31 AM

Subject: Re: [amibroker] Quotes Plus EPS data

to answer my own question.  The EPS is posted by the company on Feb-8-2007. However this number is for the december quarter of 2006. So the QP2 data is shown only in the first quarter on the chart starting at Jan-1-2007.  This is misleading since the data is only reported on Feb-8-2007.  So to use this data safely you should shift it 1 quarter forward in my opinion or you should somehow know the date the report was issued (QP2 does not provide this however),

 

rgds, Ed

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Edward Pottasch

To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com

Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:10 AM

Subject: [amibroker] Quotes Plus EPS data

hi,

 

anyone have experience with the EPS data of QP?

 

see attached chart. From Jan-1-2007 it shows an EPS of 1.02$.  The last report of ESRX was however on Feb-8-2007 where they reported an EPS of 1.07$  This is close enough but in the chart this number seems to be show already on Jan-1-2007. And this seems to be going on for all symbols. Am I right to assume that the QP EPS numbers are displayed too early in the chart?

 

QP says:  "Companies annoince their earnings anywhere from a few weeks to a few months after the quarter. The current numbers will always be late on your chart."

 

It seems however that the numbers are early in the chart. Anybody found out how this works?

 

regards, Ed

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