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Sean,
could you tell me which indexes have the errors?  Are the IRL !IDxxx indexes OK?

Daniel.


Sean W. Smith wrote:

> BTW:  According to my scan.  There are aproximately 3700 suspect records in
> the entire database. Most of which occurr in the several hundred provided
> index symbols.  The stock and MF data are very clean in this respect.  The #
> overall 3700/18000  results is .2 errors per security not 95 as alain's
> program reports.  (Obviously we have some kind of problem here as his
> program says there are 500x the errors that I see). Lets see the source code
> and figure out where the problem lies....  Alain, how fast does your program
> run.  Mine takes all night to run.  I would love to see a performance
> comparison between VB and the internal scanning programming...
>
> Here's my code again for further review....
>
> daystoload = 2200;
> daysrequired =1;
>
> integer numdays;
> integer i,j;
>
> numdays:=((DaysLoaded-1)*-1);
>
> output="out_of_range.lst";
>
> //exchange=nyse,nasdaq,amex;
>
> for i=numdays to 0 step 1 do
>   if close(i) < low(i) then
>      println "Close < Low  : Symbol ",Symbol:7," Date ",Date(i):12," Open
> ",open(i):7:2," Close ",close(i):7:2," High ",high(i):7:2," Low
> ",low(i):7:2;
>   endif;
>   if close(i) > high(i) then
>      println "Close > High : Symbol ",Symbol:7," Date ",Date(i):12," Open
> ",open(i):7:2," Close ",close(i):7:2," High ",high(i):7:2," Low
> ",low(i):7:2;
>   endif;
>   if low(i) > high(i) then
>      println "Low > High   : Symbol ",Symbol:7," Date ",Date(i):12," Open
> ",open(i):7:2," Close ",close(i):7:2," High ",high(i):7:2," Low
> ",low(i):7:2;
>   endif;
>   if open(i) < low(i) then
>      println "Open < Low   : Symbol ",Symbol:7," Date ",Date(i):12," Open
> ",open(i):7:2," Close ",close(i):7:2," High ",high(i):7:2," Low
> ",low(i):7:2;
>   endif;
>   if open(i) > high(i) then
>      println "Open > High : Symbol ",Symbol:7," Date ",Date(i):12," Open
> ",open(i):7:2," Close ",close(i):7:2," High ",high(i):7:2," Low
> ",low(i):7:2;
>   endif;
>
> next i;
>
> Sean
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alain JOSSART
> > Sent: Friday, November 06, 1998 12:35 AM
> > To: Daniel Martinez; metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Quotes-Plus
> > Subject: Re: Quote Plus Evaluation
> >
> >
> >
> > To be fair with Quote Plus, I verified after having posted the
> > message that
> > some historical data errors were reported because QP is using 0
> > records for
> > closed days.
> >
> > If 0 OHLCV is not considered as "suspect" price record, then only 80% of
> > stocks do show problems, with an average of 95 "suspect" records per
> > security.
> >
> > -- Alain
> > ___________________
> > At 16:03 5/11/98 -0800, Daniel Martinez wrote:
> > >
> > > MetaStock & Quotes-Plus Users:
> > > There is a bug in the Quotes-Plus Virtual Setup program.  Every time you
> > > change your virtual setup, either adding or taking away lists
> > or securities,
> > > your SmartCharts are erased.  Also, if you create MetaStock
> > composites using
> > > the Downloader in the Virtual folders, you won't be able to access any
> > > securities after making your Virtual changes.  To be fair,
> > Quotes-Plus has
> > > stated their Virtual program is a beta program.  However, this
> > bug came up
> > > rather unexpectedly.
> > >
> > > I am hoping Quotes-Plus will enhance their Virtual Setup
> > program to allow
> > > SmartCharts.  They must change the file names of the
> > SmartCharts to match the
> > > securities after the Virtual Profile is changed.  The Virtual
> > setup is a very
> > > convenient and inexpensive way for me to access a large database without
> > > dealing with all the complications.  If you are a Quotes-Plus customer,
> > please
> > > call Quotes-Plus and request that they enhance their Virtual
> > Setup program.
> > >
> > > Before anyone suggests it, I have already exported the indexes I need to
> > > create MetaStock composites.  I do not wish to export the
> > entire Quotes-Plus
> > > database.
> > >
> > > Daniel.