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Re[2]: Oddball oddities



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Hello Gary and List,

I know some data vendors (e.g. Prophet) only count issues priced >
$5.00 whereas others have no min price.  quote.com I believe has no
min price while it appears eSignal does.




Best regards,
 Jim Johnson                           mailto:jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 2:34:32 PM, you wrote:

>> As to other market statistics there easily can be differences if
>> they choose to either "sample" the data or provide all of what they
>> receive.  

GF> And they may calculate them differently.  For example with 
GF> adv/decl issues and up/down volume, there are several ways you 
GF> could compute the index.  I once tried several ways to duplicate 
GF> DTN's uvol/dvol numbers, and failed.  I tried to find ANYbody at 
GF> DTN who knew how it was computed, and as far as I could tell 
GF> nobody knows.  It's magic.  "If the stock is up, it goes into up 
GF> volume, if it's down, it goes into down volume."  Thanks, that's 
GF> very helpful...

GF> Gary