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To: George Van Noy who wrote (3492)	2/17/1998 9:26:00 AM
From: Tim Fierro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Do you or anyone know why a simple scan for optionable stocks: hasoptions=true, returns some symbols that do NOT have options? Sorry, don't know why. I have noticed the same thing though. One thought that did occur to me and maybe you are doing something similar, is using a Loop statement to gather past data. Loop(0, -100) It 'might' be possible that it had options available and now does not not. I don't know how Q+ updates it's data to know. The reason I didn't pay too much attention to that idea is that you can check Close today and Close 100 days ago and get two different values. You cannot however get PE today and PE 100 days ago. So with HasOptions, should fall in line with what is current right now since there is no option to get if the stock has options available 100 days ago. SO back to square one, Why do stocks show up has having options but really do not? <g> I wish I knew. I have since changed my scan that does options to scan for Close >= 10.00 so hopefully it will get less hits that don't really have options although they fell out of the scan as valid. Tim