Carolyn: I don't know whether there's a help thread for QP, beyond this one. Gary has always been quick to answer questions here, and I'm sure he'd be willing to tackle yours, particularly those regarding programming. I imagine he's pretty busy right now working on QP2, though.
The improvements in QP2 are listed at the QP Website (http://www.quotes-plus.com) Here's a rundown of them, copied from the site (the main things are more years of price data and fundamental data):
New features include:
Mutual fund prices from 1/1/1990 are now available.
Equity prices from 1/1/1992, some from 1/1/1990
are available.
Includes 40 fundamental data items from Market
Guide Inc. These include:
12 quarters earnings
12 quarters sales
A short description of the companies
Analyst footnotes
Float
EPS less extraordinary items
Book value, latest quarter
Revenue per share TTM
Institutional percentage held
Beta
1, 3 and 5 year EPS growth rate
1, 3 and 5 year revenue growth rate
Short interest current month
Shares outstanding
Price to sales ratio
I used to use TC2000, too. The best thing about QP, I find, is the ability to do fundamental scans, and to combine technical and fundamental scans. Also, you can scan lists of stocks generated from previous scans, narrowing down your lists. In the newest 32-bit beta, the scans are FAST. I can run some pretty involved scans on more than 10,000 stocks in about 3 minutes.
As for historical data and recent daily data, the program does seem to integrate them seamlessly. You can copy the historical data to your hard drive or access it from the CD. The scans are even faster if you copy the historical data to one drive and the daily updated data to another drive. You can output data to Metastock directories, too, and historical and daily data are combined in those directories.
I know this doesn't answer half of what you asked, but others such as Gary, Andy and Sean may step in where I fear to tread.
Brooke |
