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Thanks once again Ton.
I did use the list of symbols you posted in the past to help sort things
out. I was having trouble creating a McClellan Oscillator using 2
issues... NYSE Advances - NYSE Declines as a "composite security". I
kept getting an "invalid something or other" when I tried to view it as
a daily chart. I was hoping there was a symbol which had both the
advancing and declining data as a high and low to be able to do a
formula on one security. All's well now as I solved the problem by doing
the the close - plot thereby using the 2 seperate securities in one
chart to create the Oscillator. As far as the Arms index... I have
recently found it to be less predictive so I'm not bothering to plot it.
FYI, sadly the reason I couldn't get the symbols to show in the
downloader was because of my use of an older version (4.11). I know
enough about computers to be dangerous and have been trying to wait out
a good version of windows(NT5 maybe) before upgrading. Time is running
out with Equis' lack of support of older versions and I may become
assimilated into Bill Gates world of extraneous code sooner than I
thought! LOL
As I said, your post was of great help and then talking with the Reuters
rep nailed down any loose ends.
Regards... John
A.J. Maas wrote:
>
> Downloaders Symbol LookUp engine provides for all of the securities/stocks
> comprising the S&P500, the Dow Indu, Tran, Util, NYSE NASDAQ etc.
> by selecting:
> as Type: "Indices [RTD Symbols]" and as Group: "United States" or
> as Type: "Stocks - Common" and as Group: "Your index" or
> as Type: "Stocks - Common" and as Group: "Your exchange"
> etc. etc. .
>
> Ofcourse its best to have the latest updated symbol-file, which is available
> from Equis website @ 1st-15th of each month.
>
> Go to their new website
> http://199.234.225.19/customer/support/files/symbols.html
> General page
> http://199.234.225.19/customer/support/index.html
> or their other website
> http://www.equis.com/support/
>
> Regards,
> Ton Maas
> ms-irb@xxxxxx
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Johnonetoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Johnonetoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Aan: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Datum: dinsdag 3 november 1998 7:40
> Onderwerp: Re: Telescan, a new level of incompetence
>
> >Bill and All:
> >I was the first to start the thread a few weeks back on this Telescan
> >crap, remember? I started using Reuters today! Great, now I start
> >deleting the old bad data and downloading clean data! I had the crappy
> >Friday download problem too... but now that's all behind me. I hope
> >Telescan doesn't screw up and continue to bill my card, otherwise it's
> >good bye to them.
> >
> >I do have one problem now and that's coming up with 2 symbols: 1 for the
> >arms or trin index and 1 for a symbol with both advances and declines
> >for the NYSE to do the McClellen stuff. Anybody that uses these with
> >Reuters data please let me know what symbols you're using.
> >
> >Good luck to all with the data blues.
> >
> >Best... John
> >
> >
> >Bill Saxon wrote:
> >>
> >> If there are any other poor fools out there are still using Telescan I
> >> am curious if you are having the same problem I am. They have gone
> >> from delivering faulty data to, in addition, delivering no data on
> >> selected stocks, i.e. they don't recognize the symbols. I had forty
> >> one in tonight's download. I refuse to believe all these companies
> >> went out of business or changed their symbol.
> >>
> >> I had the same problem Friday and tried again Sunday to reload. For
> >> some reason I thought they may be trying to fix the problem. All to
> >> no avail.
> >>
> >> Come the end of the month I am out of there. I don't want to be the
> >> last man standing.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Bill Saxon
> >> bsaxon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
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