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Two solutions:
1) Move all your data to the one folder with The Downloader's copy
function. You may need to talk to your data vendor with regards to
data update/distribution issues.
I keep the 1571 ASX security data files in one single folder, and
don't have to deal with the multiple-folder issue.
2) Whether you've placed all securities in a single folder or multiple
folders, either way take a good look at the URSC kit:
http://www.metastocktools.com/URSC/URSC.htm
The URSC kit can filter stocks according to any GICS sector or ASX
group combination, regardless of data folder structure.
jose '-)
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "neighbourkerry" <kneighbour@xx
..> wrote:
>
>
> One of the serious problems (for me) of Metastock is the way it
> organises the local data. In my system it is arranged under a folder
> for each letter ie
>
> \asx\a
> \asx\b
> \asx\c
> \asx\d etc...
>
> I guess this is to get around the problem with only allowing 6,000
> equities in any one folder. I presume that this would be a problem
in
> the USA, but it is not here in Australia (presumably).
>
> It is a problem for two reasons - I canot quickly load a chart
unless
> it is in the same folder - ie the Next and Prev securty buttons only
> work in the current folder.
>
> I also cannot easily locate a stock if I do not know the ticker
> symbol. I can usually guess the first letter (which is all I need to
> find the folder), but this might not always be the case.
>
> The REAL problem is that I cannot easily run Explorations on the
> whole equity list. I would love to hear how other people do it - I
> have spent many hours on trying to work out how to do this easily,
> but still have not been able to come up with a good way of doing it.
>
> My current systen was worked out like this -
>
> I load an Exploration, then Add all the data folders manually - ie
> add all 26 folders one by one. A pain.
>
> Then I go through the displayed list of securities - some 4,000 or
> so, I think. Then I manually deleted all the Options - or rather all
> the options and any ticker with a symbol length of 4 or more
> characters. You MUST do this from the bottom of the list - otherwise
> after you remove each one, the display resorts and it stuffs you up.
> Anyway, I eventually did this after many hours of marking and
> deleting. A REAL pain.
>
> Then I saved this list in Favourites as "All Stocks as of Jan 2005".
>
> This now works - when I do an Exploration, I simply load this list
> each time.
>
> So while I am up and running for the time being, I can see problems
> coming up. What happens when new stocks are added. Ones are deleted?
> How do I update my list - other than to manually add or delete each
> stock as I find out about it (if I ever do). How do I remove non-
> trading stocks?
>
> I can see maintenace as being the death of this thing. All I can see
> is that I will have to go through this whole process in 6 months
time
> again - and I REALLY do not want to do that. My thoughts are that I
> am simply doing it all wrong - this software is so good it could not
> fall down in such a fundamental way. So I must have missed something
> along the way.
>
> In similar vein - how do I search the ASX200? I need to make up a
> list that contains jsut the ASX200. Since this changes all the time,
> it also becomes unworkable.
>
> How do you people out there organise your data?
>
> I have thought about moving all stocks into one folder, but this is
> not really viable. With Options - we might actually have more than
> 6,000 - so that might be a limitation. But more importantly, most
> third party EOD data downloaders/subscription services put data into
> these particular folder structures - there is nothing you can do
> about it.
>
> Your ideas would be welcome.
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