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Hi guys,
Are you sure you meant an 'OR' imho it should be and 'AND'
If the date happens to be 1 April 2004, and some one enters your 
suggestion ie 'Oct' or '2002' you will select all of your shares and 
delete the whole lot.
Just Pondering
Merry Xmas to all, and Happy and prosperous New Year
Safe Trading
myklan 

--- In Metastockusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Philip <pschmi02@xxxx> wrote:
> Maybe my last post didn't work. Let's try it again.

> "You can do this in order to know which securities can be removed 
from your lists.  It identifies which securities have not traded in 
the amount of time you specify, and lists them so you can remove the 
ones you no longer follow.
> 
> 1.Create a new exploration with the following formula:
> Col A: month  Month()
> Col B: day      DayOfMonth()
> Col C: year     Year()
> Filter   ( (Year() < 2000) OR (Month() < 10) )
> 2.         Run the exploration, the results will be outdated 
securities.
> 
> Select all of the results and delete them.
> 3.         Open MetaStock
> 4.         Open the Tools menu
> 5.         Select The Explorer
> 6.         Click New and in Column A, type in the following:
>              Month()
>              In Column B, type in the following:
>              DayOfMonth()
>              In Column C, type in the following:
>              Year()
> 7.         In the Filter Column, type in the following (changing the 
> Year()<2000 to the current year and Month()<10 to the current month, 
for example if today's date is May 10, 2002, change the year to read 
Year() 2002 and change the month to read Month()<5 ):
>              ( (Year() < 2000) OR (Month() < 10) )
> 8.         Click OK
> 9.         Click Explore
> 10.       Add your data folders to the Select Securities dialog
> 11.       Click OK
> 12.       Click Reports when complete
> 13.       Select the first security, hold down the Shift key and 
click on the last symbol
> 14.       Right Click on the selected securities
> 15.       Select Delete Securities
> Kind Regards,
> Tena
> Technical Support Representative
> Equis International, a Reuters Company "
> 
> Best,
> Philip


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