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Re: Relative Strength



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The instructions as written work as they should.  I suspect you are
exploring on the current date and do not have data for the current date,
thus no closing price.  Check the date you are using for the exploration
against the last date of data in your data files.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lionel Issen [SMTP:lissen@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 26, 1997 8:12 AM
> To:	metastock-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Comparative relative stsrength
> 
> At the Equis web site there are instructions for find comparative
> relative
> strength.  These are complete and work.
> 
> There are also instructions for creating a relative strength
> exploration.
> These are inadequate and incomplete.  I tried them on 2 directories
> containing about 150 stocks.  All were rejected.  The message in the
> reject
> list said that a closing price was needed.  Do I need to have a copy
> of the
> S&P in each directory for the exploration to work?
> 
> Another problem with the comparative relative strength, is that the
> results
> are not normalized.  The program simply divides the close by the value
> of
> the S&P close on the same date.  What is needed is for the results at
> some
> starting date be set to 1  This would simplify some of the subsequent
> analysis and searches.
> 
> Lionel Issen