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To: Shinin' Times who wrote (3955)	4/19/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Try this one //Richard Estes' Breakout Scan 9/16/96 Exchange=NYSE,NASDAQ,AMEX Max(-3,-25,Hi) > 1.2*Min(-3,-25,lo) // 3 days ago Months highest high/Months lowest low GT 1.2 High(0)>Max(-1,-21,Hi) // Todays high GT Months highest high Close(0)<30 // Today's Close LT $30 Close(0)>MovAvg(0,34,Cl) // Today's Close GT 34day simple Mov avg Vol(0)>AvgVol(-1,-180) // Today's Vol GT 9 mo avg vol // end of scan Watch out for line-wrapped comments, as usual. I think the original also had the sense of the inequality reversed. I posted a question to that effect but got no responses. The original post didn't make sense to me, but being a TA infant, WDIK? However, regardless of the sense of the inequality, this avoids the zero divide problem. Regards, Spots

To: Shinin' Times who wrote (3955)	4/20/1998 12:53:00 AM
From: Mark	Respond to of 11149

FRED, For any scan involving a division, I include a conditional statement in front of the formula, specifically excluding the denominator being equal to zero. I don't have QP yet, so don't know what the statement would be, but the general format I use is: IFF(DENOMINATOR<>0,FORMULA,1)... There are other ways to get past the "divide by zero " issue, but the conditional statement,is the most legal:0)solution. regards, Mark.

To: Shinin' Times who wrote (3955)	4/20/1998 1:21:00 AM
From: Craig DeHaan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Fred, Add a nominal value to the denominator to beat the problem without distorting the results. (Max(-4,-25,hi)/(0.01+Min(-4,-25,lo)))<1.2 works for me.

To: Shinin' Times who wrote (3955)	4/20/1998 4:27:00 AM
From: Michael Quarne	Respond to of 11149

HI Fred, Not sure what version of the BBB scan your running but here is the original. It ran flawlessly for me when I used R1. // QP translation of Richard's Buy Buy Buy AllGroup Close(0) > Min(-1,-5,cl) 1.05 // todays close at least %5 higher than lowest close in last 5 days Close(0) <= 30 // price < $30 AvgVol(0,-130)>500 // avg daily vol last 180 da > 50,000 Close(0) > Max(-1,-260,cl) 0.85 //today's close not lower than 15% of 52 wk high Vol(0) >= AvgVol(0,-75) // todays vol > 3mo moving avg of vol vol(0) >=500 // todays vol>50,000 HasOptions = TRUE // optionable Arctic Mike