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Chuck:
I just don't do a good job of describing what I want to do, and/or why I want to do it.
Why don't I just download all "new data"? Because some of my current data is 12-15 years old, and I don't want to loose it. Most data suppliers (at least the ones that I am looking at) don't keep data that old.
The software that I am getting rid of (Windows on Wallstreet) had a very simple system for sorting securities built in. There was one master list of securities, and you could sort/extract by any sector or exchange or whatever designation you defined. As I user, I didn't know (or need to know) what folder the data was in. All cross indexing was done by the program.
But Metastock doesn't seem to work that way. So I was trying to put the stocks into folders that had some order to them (such as common stocks), since the user (me) has to now keep track of exactly which folder holds what security. (I know there is a Find feature, but to use that I need the symbol of the stock, not simply whether it is common, preferred, etc.)
And yes, I did find that feature in Copy which you described. That was what the Equis rep told me about. But I have data on about 10,000 stocks and funds, and I really don't want to print out a list of my current stocks, compare them line by line to what is in the Metastock list, and then manually delete each one that is not a common stock, and then go through the reverse exercise for what are preferred stocks, etc. I would like to spend my time using Metastock's tools to analyze the data; not spending it getting the data in a form that I can use. I thought that was what computers programs were for <g>.
Harry
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Chuck Rademacher" <chuck_rademacher@x> wrote:
> It's always hard to figure out exactly what someone is trying to do. But
> I think what you want to do is fairly easy.
>
> Start the Downloader, click on tools and then copy. You can then browse
> around and select or, even, multi-select stocks that you want to copy.
> When you click on copy at this point, you are asked for the destination
> folder.
>
> Doesn't this achieve what you are trying to do?
>
> I guess I don't know why you already set up symbols in the new folders, as
> the copy described above is going to ignore that anyway.
>
> However, if you've set up the folders with skeleton data files, why not just
> do a download for those folders and get complete, fresh, data? You may be
> worried about download time or you may not be aware that you can do this.
>
> As I said, it frequently is difficult replying to someone when you don't
> quite have all of the picture.
>
> I hope that I have helped you.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bex1210 <hmw3@xxxx> [mailto:hmw3@x...]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:39 PM
> To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Reading the Metastock Symbol database
>
>
> I have Metastock 8. To make it easier for me to manipulate, I plan to
> transfer my old data files from the 255/folder to the newer 2000/folder.
> While I am doing that, I want to set up the folders based on some of the
> stock groupings in Metastock. First I have set up a series of folders based
> on the symbols in "Stocks-Common".
>
> But when I use the COPY command, all of the securities in my old folders
> are copied, no matter what symbols I have loaded in my new folders. So that
> means not only do I now have common stocks, but I have preferred, etc. in
> the folder.
>
> I contacted Equis support to see if there was some way that I could
> manipulate the settings so that only the stocks which appear on the new list
> were copied from the old folders. They said there was not.
>
> So then I asked if there was some way that I could "read" the
> Symboldatabase70.dta file? My old stock list is a text file. So If I could
> do a quick compare, then at least I would easily know which stocks had to be
> manually removed.
>
> I was told that the Symboldatabase70.dta file is written in binary code,
> so it would require a 'binary editor' program to read it. They suggested I
> search the web for one.
>
> I did that. But what I find are editors that ouput in hex code. I want
> something that will create a text type listing of the symbols in the
> Symboldatabase (I am not a programmer).
>
> Does anyone know of something that will do this job, or any other way that
> I can fairly easily transfer only those stocks which appear in my new
> folders?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Harry
>
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