Generally 6 to 30ish GA time. Better than those unpredictable MS listserv latencies.
No kidding. THat's really odd; I've never seen Majordomo act like that.
But anyway. Someone please correct my fuzzy thinking here, because this just can't be right.
I want a folder which is readable by Metastock. In this folder, I want all the indexes (indices?) that QP2 lists. Furthermore, whenever I do my daily update, I want metastock to "see" these new changes. I'm hoping that the virtual part of QP2 handles all that for me once I set it up. Yea? Nay?
I'll hope that's correct and move on. So, I assume I use the virtual setup for this. I click "new", give it my new directory name, click the box called "my own selections", (since none of the other categoris is what I want), and then... what?
I'm supposed to believe that I can't pick which stocks/indexes/other I want in there? I have to run a scan to do it? What am I missing?
Ok, I'll assume that there's a way to do that; I just don't know what it is. I've never RUN a scan before, so now's as good a time as any.
So, I start writing the scan. How, how, how would I just pick the indexes? Ok, set exchange = indexes;. Easy enough. Set the output file, put in the token prinln, and start to scan.
I had copied all the data from 1983+ from the CD to hard drive. As I run the scan, I notice...yup, my CD going berserk. Gak. Cancel the scan, remove the CD and start over.
This time, it doesn't mind the CD being gone, and the scan goes according to plan. Except now, it's scanning the entire database. I guess this is the default behaviour, but does it make more sense to anyone but me that when you specify an exchange, couldn't there be some optimization to ignore the securities that aren't in that exchange?
I'm really curious as to how many errors I committed in the above paragraphs, and how I should have done things. Please anyone let me know.
Many thanks. |
