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jhmtn a écrit :
Tim, I
have 60+ Metastock folders holding some 2,100 stock issues. In addition,
some of those are duplicated in multiple folders by price, exchange, or
issue type. It includes the S&P 500. The
way I handle the split issue is simple. I do my daily price download
then I run a small eploration I wrote that finds the common 2:1 splits,
then another one that finds the 3:2 splits. I check the lists produced
against the Yahoo site, then use my data provider software to afect the
split. Generally, it
only adds about 3 - 6 minutes to my nightly preparation time. Then,
on the weekend, I again go to a web site such as Yahoo and scan their split
list. From that I pick up the oddball splits that I missed such as
the 5:1 and the 1:8. The weekend effort takes on average about 10
-15 minutes. A small price to pay. In
addition to this, I do a more manual review of a potential trade before
I take it. This will show any other odball conditions that surface.
Plus, I've downloaded BigEasyInvestor and run its update about twice a
week. It reports splits due for the week and splits that occurred
today at market open. Altogether, the effort to maintain the DB for
2,100 issues is about 1/2 hour per week total, with some weeks taking up
to a hour for that week. I've
heard that some data providers will update the issue's back history if
there is a split, but the one I use doesn't unless I delete and readd the
issue, which I don't. Hope
this helps ......... John ----- Original Message -----
From:
Tim
Stevenson
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 6:12
AM
Subject: stock splits
I have been
trading mostly commodities and have developed a system that I'd like to
run against stocks as well. My
question involves stock splits and stock dividends and capital gains.
My data vendor is CSI and they include an option in their Historical Stock
Adjustments settings that allow for adjusting for stock splits and also
for stock dividends and capital gains. What
have you found to work well with dealing with these issues? I haven't
dug too deeply into this yet, but I'm thinking I might have to use the
data from the most recent split and go forward. This requires constant
monitoring of when splits are occurring. This isn't a big deal on
a few stocks but I am running the system on the 500 stocks that make up
the S&P 500. Thanks,Tim
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