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Good news, John.
Just a few comments:
-Do not be to harsh on 'ol' Bill G., as he neither can help computers hicups and complexiness
in fact I consider him/his teams to make computing a lot for the better over the years
-You should have considered upgrading to Win95, as compared to the old DOSdays
everything and every program computes just better
-You did not have had to create a composite, as when you Open 2 securities side by side,
add your indicators to them and then create a Layout from them, you will always be able
to mix these securities datas for any of the other then used indicators to work from as their base
and as such this Layout becomes a "synthetic security" with its own name and link, eg from desktop
Regards,
Ton Maas
ms-irb@xxxxxx
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Van: Johnonetoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Johnonetoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Aan: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Datum: woensdag 4 november 1998 17:58
Onderwerp: Those Crazy Index Symbols!
>Thanks once again Ton.
>
>I did use the list of symbols you posted in the past to help sort things
>out. I was having trouble creating a McClellan Oscillator using 2
>issues... NYSE Advances - NYSE Declines as a "composite security". I
>kept getting an "invalid something or other" when I tried to view it as
>a daily chart. I was hoping there was a symbol which had both the
>advancing and declining data as a high and low to be able to do a
>formula on one security. All's well now as I solved the problem by doing
>the the close - plot thereby using the 2 seperate securities in one
>chart to create the Oscillator. As far as the Arms index... I have
>recently found it to be less predictive so I'm not bothering to plot it.
>
>FYI, sadly the reason I couldn't get the symbols to show in the
>downloader was because of my use of an older version (4.11). I know
>enough about computers to be dangerous and have been trying to wait out
>a good version of windows(NT5 maybe) before upgrading. Time is running
>out with Equis' lack of support of older versions and I may become
>assimilated into Bill Gates world of extraneous code sooner than I
>thought! LOL
>
>As I said, your post was of great help and then talking with the Reuters
>rep nailed down any loose ends.
>
>Regards... John
>
>
>A.J. Maas wrote:
>>
>> Downloaders Symbol LookUp engine provides for all of the securities/stocks
>> comprising the S&P500, the Dow Indu, Tran, Util, NYSE NASDAQ etc.
>> by selecting:
>> as Type: "Indices [RTD Symbols]" and as Group: "United States" or
>> as Type: "Stocks - Common" and as Group: "Your index" or
>> as Type: "Stocks - Common" and as Group: "Your exchange"
>> etc. etc. .
>>
>> Ofcourse its best to have the latest updated symbol-file, which is available
>> from Equis website @ 1st-15th of each month.
>>
>> Go to their new website
>> http://199.234.225.19/customer/support/files/symbols.html
>> General page
>> http://199.234.225.19/customer/support/index.html
>> or their other website
>> http://www.equis.com/support/
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ton Maas
>> ms-irb@xxxxxx
>>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: Johnonetoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Johnonetoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Aan: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Datum: dinsdag 3 november 1998 7:40
>> Onderwerp: Re: Telescan, a new level of incompetence
>>
>> >Bill and All:
>> >I was the first to start the thread a few weeks back on this Telescan
>> >crap, remember? I started using Reuters today! Great, now I start
>> >deleting the old bad data and downloading clean data! I had the crappy
>> >Friday download problem too... but now that's all behind me. I hope
>> >Telescan doesn't screw up and continue to bill my card, otherwise it's
>> >good bye to them.
>> >
>> >I do have one problem now and that's coming up with 2 symbols: 1 for the
>> >arms or trin index and 1 for a symbol with both advances and declines
>> >for the NYSE to do the McClellen stuff. Anybody that uses these with
>> >Reuters data please let me know what symbols you're using.
>> >
>> >Good luck to all with the data blues.
>> >
>> >Best... John
>> >
>> >
>> >Bill Saxon wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If there are any other poor fools out there are still using Telescan I
>> >> am curious if you are having the same problem I am. They have gone
>> >> from delivering faulty data to, in addition, delivering no data on
>> >> selected stocks, i.e. they don't recognize the symbols. I had forty
>> >> one in tonight's download. I refuse to believe all these companies
>> >> went out of business or changed their symbol.
>> >>
>> >> I had the same problem Friday and tried again Sunday to reload. For
>> >> some reason I thought they may be trying to fix the problem. All to
>> >> no avail.
>> >>
>> >> Come the end of the month I am out of there. I don't want to be the
>> >> last man standing.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >>
>> >> Bill Saxon
>> >> bsaxon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>
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