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To: Carolyn S. who wrote (2587)	12/1/1997 4:56:00 PM
From: Bob Sage	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Carolyn, You bring up a good point, the discussions here have centered on R2 for several weeks since several of us are helping with the beta trials. This should not deter anyone from getting R1 and starting to use it for experience handling the data, transferring data to other formats, writing scans for R1 and performing TA. Remember, a scan is a defined way of reviewing a database of stocks for certain criteria. R1 can help you refine those criteria. R2 has a different and more powerful language but your R1 scan ideas can be converted. It just needs to be recoded - not very difficult. R2 has fundamental data and mutual fund data which can be scanned. I believe there is a description of the improvements on the QP home page quotes-plus.com Good luck with R1 and post questions here. I will try to help as will many others. Bob

To: Carolyn S. who wrote (2587)	12/1/1997 4:56:00 PM
From: TechTrader42	Respond to of 11149

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