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What advantage does this product have over the
Downloader from Equis? I reviewed the site and found nothing to indicate
that it scanned for splits. It seemed to be Freeware, but required a
registration that charged $9.95.
John
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Amadeus
To: <A title=metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 2:58
AM
Subject: Re: stock splits
For an automatic search of splits try this
at <A
href="http://www.worldlynx.net/pgerhart/_metafix.html";>http://www.worldlynx.net/pgerhart/_metafix.html
jhmtn a écrit :
<FONT
size=-1>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. <FONT
face=Arial>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. <FONT
size=-1>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
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<A title=tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="mailto:tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>Tim Stevenson
To: <A title=metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>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. <FONT
face=Arial>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. <FONT
color=#0000ff>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. <FONT
size=-1>Thanks,<FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT
size=-1>Tim
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