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Easy......
edit the text file(s).... delete the dates from Tues to Fri.. or.. if you get
the files by day, just dont add those days via Downloader....
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Shashi Aggarwal wrote:
> The US markets were closed from Tuesday to Friday last week, as we all know.
> When I downloaded the data on Monday evening (9/17) from my data provider
> (Telescan), instead of there being NO price/volume data for any stock for
> those dates, I see that all 4 days have the closing price of Monday listed
> for these 4 non-trading days and volume listed as zero i.e. there IS data
> where there should be none, and its all nonsensical.
>
> Possible solutions I can think of:
> 1) If I delete the data after Sep. 10th and download again, I again get the
> same result, so that doesn't help.
> 2) Another solution is to open the data file for each symbol individually
> and then delete the rows corresponding to Sep. 11 - Sep. 14. However, this
> is a gargantuan task considering that thousands of stocks are involved.
>
> Metastock's Downloader does not give an option to delete data from a
> preselected date range, only Before or After a particular date
> (Tools\Delete\Data). Anyone have any idea how to get rid of data for these 4
> dates (9/11 - 9/14) quickly and efficiently, while preserving all data
> before and after those dates? Thanks in advance.
>
> Shashi
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