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To: junnie who wrote (1270)	5/30/1998 3:13:00 PM
From: Ken Adams	Respond to of 2233

Junnie... Glad you were able to write a program for yourself. I just looked at my directories where I keep my data. I set them up the way they are because several years ago I bot a CD that had "every" stock history on it. In order to transfer that data to my hard drive they recommended I set up directories like this: MSNYAM01, MSNYAM02, etc. That stood for Metastock New York & American listings # 1 and #2, etc. I ended up with 32 directories for the NYAM part. After transferring all that data (some 8,000 symbols, or more) I realized that over half of it was JUNK. Stuff that didn't trade regularly, stuff that traded for pennies and weren't supposed to be penny stocks, warrants, preferreds, foreign mutual funds and other stuff I just wasn't remotely interested in following. It took spare time over two weeks to dump all that stuff, as I had to eyeball every stinking one of those charts. So, I didn't load all the OTC's from that CD. Still, I have 7 directories in that same format that contain OTC stocks. I also have added 3 more NYAM directories to handle groups of optionable stocks that I follow and want them to be together. Having bored you with all that, you don't have to import these files into WOW to have WOW work with the data. It will read the data directly. You just tell WOW where to look. There's more to it than this, but I think I've already been too wordy. If you're interested, I can tell you (or anyone else who may be interested) how I've set things up in WOW to speed things up. If so, let's keep the posts here so lurkers can follow along. Ken