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To: Galirayo who wrote (5385)	12/14/1997 8:46:00 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9262

Ray: I'm assuming this extra data is a separate download, like once a month???? Otherwise, the old nightly downloads will be pretty lengthy, not to mention that most of the extra data sounds like it changes only once per month or quarter. Do you know if you can do calculations/plots on the data, such as % change in rev's & earnings (quarterly, horizontal and vertical) & whether you can do percentile ranks of the entire database? Also, this was due out in November....do you know a firm release date? dh

To: Galirayo who wrote (5385)	12/14/1997 11:17:00 PM
From: HeyRainier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9262

[ Fundamentals ] Ray, I'm rubbing my hands with glee since this category falls along my strongest territory. Characteristics I look for in longer term holdings, regardless of what market I am in: 1. Debt/equity ratio of less than 0.10 2. Current ratio >= 2.0 3. Price/sales ratio of <= 2.0 4. Price/book ratio of <= 2.5-ish 5. Met or exceeded analyst estimates in the past 7 quarters 6. Price/(Earnings Growth) of 0.5, ideally 7. Outstanding shares of 3.0 million or more 8. Short Interest: the higher the better, for the short squeeze 9. Beta: inconsequential 10. Institutional Holding: the lower the better, though the existence of some is preferable to the non-existence--we want to know it's already partially discovered. 11. Earnings growth: steadily growing; inconsistent growth is undesirable. 12. Preferable to have a stock buyback program(but I know you can't scan for that) 13. Not in a weak/declining/troubled industry 14. Non-declining TA characteristics. There's obviously things you can't scan for in the above criteria, but if anything pops out, I'd be interested. Only about 1 stock like this comes out a month out of the plenty I look for. And these usually are in the fallen angels category, with correspondingly weak TA. The desirables of course are the good FA/TA stocks. Ask me some more. Regards, Rainier