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To: advinfo who wrote (3488)	2/15/1998 3:50:00 PM
From: Eliot A	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

NorthStar I might not understand what you want to do but try this. In the "Quotes Plus to Metastock Format" window under set options check the "create .dop files." Then you will have .dat and .dop file created. WOW then will be able to read the .dof files out of your metastock data directory directly. You'll need to change the directory in WOW. So when QP+ updates the metastock file you are finished. Hope this helps EliotA

To: advinfo who wrote (3488)	2/15/1998 4:42:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

I don't have experience (yet) with exporting to Metastock, and perhaps other respondents answered this. But you can never export everything with a scan because the scan doesn't include the whole database. (I know it scans the whole database, but it scans everything to figure out if it's excluding an issue, and it always excludes something. By default it excludes Amex weeklies, and there's no way to get them in that I know of.) Also the database has delisted issues. You can get these into scans if you try hard enough, but they don't fall out of close(0)>=0, and again I wonder what you'd gain. Do you really want these things? If your really gotta have it all, you can go against the raw database with a little code to poke the dll. Actually, it's simpler than that if you just want a list of symbols. BTW, the symbol list isn't completely accurate either; at least in my database. There are symbols in the table that are not actually include in the database. Try BCCC for instance. You can find this under the by-name lookup, but you will get an error if you try to graph it.

To: advinfo who wrote (3488)	2/15/1998 6:07:00 PM
From: Tim Fierro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

My goal is a complete QP data export to MetaStock, and then to WOW. I would like to keep them all in sync so I can scan and chart in all 3 products. QP to MS is a no-brainer, MS to WOW seems to require too much manual labor across too many directories Remember though, that even if you do get everything exported, there will be stocks that get delisted, or new stocks added to the market. That will mean you will need to clean up the dead weight occasionally and scan once in a while to get new issues if you are trying to get everything. Do you really want 'everything'? If you will never be buying stock XYZ because it is declining from $1.00 and has never been in an uptrend and trades only 100 shares a week, do you want this in your database? A suggestion would to make a scan to cut it down from 11,000 items down to something more managable. Maybe just stocks you are interested at a minimum requirement. You could do a simple scan that checked for just stocks between $2 and $100 and trades at least 10,000 shares a week or whatever, but something to cut the database down. This may be something you really want to do, but you might want a fast computer to track 11,000 stocks daily. Tim