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A couple of editorial notes on your email. First and foremost, thanks
for the input; I just ordered QP2, and am looking for any and all
information I can have on it; good *and* bad. Thanks!
Secondly, as you might guess from my email, I'm a unix guy. Bigot, some
might say. I find it absolutely amazing that anyone should accept
having to reboot a machine _DAILY_. Some people even seem to think that
it's *SUPPOSED* to be that way! Vote for quality, folks. If you don't
want to use a stable OS, don't. If you need to use Windows, and I'm in
that camp, tell Microsoft to fix what they have before they start adding
all these "gee-whiz" new featuers to every release.
And lastly, and I'm throwing myself at your mercy here, unless there's
some compelling NEED to use HTML-mail on a mailing list, please don't.
On mailing lists, there are a lot of people reading the email with a lot
of different systems. I'm on a unix shell account using a reader which
doesn't render HTML for me, I know of people who have the mail sent to
their alpha-pagers which don't either. And how about those of use who
might read this email on their Palm-Pilots? Unless they install the
web-app there which takes a lot of precious memory, they won't be able
to render it either.
I didn't find anything in your email which NEEDED the markup
capabilities of HTML. What I *did* find was a lot of <...>'s that had 0
content.
Thanks.
Daniel Martinez writes:
> <HTML>
> I have been using QP2 since it first came out in 6/98 and it has worked
> well for me. They have an optional virtual program which allows Metastock
> to transparently access their database via empty files (their "virtual"
> folders). This way, you don't have to maintain 2 separate databases
> and QP2 automatically maintains its own database. Their software
> is well written. I do have some advice though:
> <LI>
> <B>Maintaining your database is your most important task.</B> While
> your download time is quick (2 minutes via 28.8K), your drive will be working
> for a number of minutes afterwards. I always download immediately
> after booting up. If you have been working on your computer on something
> else, particularly using Java in your browser, reboot. You want your
> computer to be as stable as possible during your database update.
> You also might want to do a scandisk just before your download. If
> you do get a crash during your update, you can simply use the QP2 update
> database command. I have only crashed 3 times out of almost 100 downloads.</LI>
>
> <LI>
> <B>One thing about QP2 is that you may find errors in their database.</B>
> Because I use Metastock, it's easy to spot errors in the price charts.
> Unfortunately, it's not so easy to find errors in the breadth charts.
> If there are missing dates in the advances, decliners for stocks or volume,
> Metastock will give you erroneous charts. The Arms Index is particularly
> vulnerable. While you can probably confirm your Arms index for the
> NYSE, I have yet to see McClellan Oscillator, Summation, or Arms data for
> the Nasdaq. If anyone can tell me where I can find this data for
> the Nasdaq on the web, please LMK. You may want to periodically open
> your composite Advancers/Decliners for Stocks and volume in the Downloader
> and verify that the number of records are equal. If they aren't,
> dates are missing in the database.</LI>
>
> <LI>
> If you do find errors in the QP2 database, <B>you can email their data
> dept at annette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</B> . They have always been quick
> to correct their errors.</LI>
>
>
> <P>Daniel.
> <BR>
> <BR>
>
> <P>Bob Wiseman wrote:
> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>Please let me know. I've been Telescam-ed too
> often and am about to
> <BR>switch. Thanx...Bob
>
> <P>UG wrote:
> <BR>> Well, I just signed up, based on a few things I've heard on the list
> <BR>> here. I'll let you know how it goes if anyone's interested.</BLOCKQUOTE>
> </HTML>
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