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Opera 21/01/99
On 20-Jan-99, Donald wrote:
>Saro:
>I found a few problems with doing this automatically, with a program. Why?
>A ticker may not be used (or is just inactive) for a number of reasons: the
>company changed its name or the co. got acquired [.....]
>What I did was write a program to export certain info, enough to check
>which tickers are inactive. Then I look each one up individually, to see
>whether I wish to merge the data with another ticker, keep or delete it. The
>early price information for a when-issued stock is especially useful. This
>is why *everyone* needs my history exporter program!
>I did this recently, at the 1998 year end. I made a few mistakes, until I
>learned how to recognise a dead stock better, but it went OK. It pared
>my database down to almost the exact size of my information source. ;^)
>I hope that helps you,
Your information is a help to me Thank you .
If you have a programme in the future I would like to
receive it.
Ciao Saro.
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Mortillaro Rosario
Via Carducci N.6
20090 OPERA (MI)
ITALY
Tel. +39 2 57603958 Home
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