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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (5157)	7/4/1998 2:09:00 PM
From: TechTrader42	Respond to of 11149

Hi Howard: 'Tworks for multiple stocks. Give it a try. It works at the beach, too. Works like a peach. Works even for Friedrich Nietzsche. Here's the very beginning of the output using 10 days (-9). This shows how many days the close was up out of the 10 days. You get multiple listings for each stock because the scan gets several hits for up days in the period. With the stock A, for example, the first up day during the 10-day period was on 6/19. The last up day was 7/01. The last hit gives the total number of up days for the period, because the "k" variable is cumulative. (The skies are looking a bit cumulous here, too, but no matter.) A , 1, 06/19/1998 A , 2, 06/24/1998 A , 3, 06/25/1998 A , 4, 06/30/1998 A , 5, 07/01/1998 AA , 1, 06/19/1998 AA , 2, 06/23/1998 AA , 3, 06/26/1998 AA , 4, 06/29/1998 AA , 5, 07/01/1998 AAB , 1, 06/19/1998 AAB , 2, 06/22/1998 AAB , 3, 06/24/1998 AAB , 4, 06/26/1998 AAB , 5, 07/02/1998 AABC , 1, 06/19/1998 AABC , 2, 06/24/1998 AABC , 3, 06/26/1998 AAC , 1, 06/23/1998 AAC , 2, 06/24/1998 AACE , 1, 06/22/1998 AACE , 2, 06/23/1998 AACE , 3, 06/24/1998 AACE , 4, 06/29/1998 AACE , 5, 06/30/1998 AACE , 6, 07/02/1998 AAFG , 1, 06/22/1998 AAFG , 2, 06/25/1998 AAFG , 3, 06/26/1998 AAG , 1, 06/23/1998 AAG , 2, 06/24/1998 AAG , 3, 06/26/1998 AAG , 4, 06/29/1998 AAG , 5, 07/01/1998 AAGIY , 1, 06/19/1998 AAGIY , 2, 06/23/1998 AAGIY , 3, 06/29/1998 AAGIY , 4, 06/30/1998 AAGIY , 5, 07/02/1998 AAGP , 1, 06/23/1998 AAGP , 2, 06/25/1998 AAGP , 3, 06/26/1998 AAGP , 4, 07/01/1998 AAII , 1, 06/19/1998 AAII , 2, 06/23/1998 AAII , 3, 06/29/1998 AAII , 4, 06/30/1998 AAIR , 1, 06/19/1998 AAIR , 2, 06/22/1998 AAIR , 3, 06/23/1998 AAIR , 4, 06/24/1998 AAIR , 5, 06/26/1998 AAIR , 6, 06/30/1998 AAIR , 7, 07/02/1998 AALA , 1, 06/29/1998 AALA , 2, 07/01/1998 AAM , 1, 06/23/1998 AAM , 2, 06/24/1998 AAM , 3, 06/25/1998 AAME , 1, 06/19/1998 AAME , 2, 06/22/1998 AAME , 3, 06/24/1998 AAME , 4, 06/26/1998 AAME , 5, 07/02/1998 AAN , 1, 06/25/1998 AAN , 2, 06/29/1998 AAN , 3, 06/30/1998 AAN , 4, 07/01/1998 AANB , 1, 06/22/1998 AANB , 2, 06/29/1998 AAON , 1, 06/19/1998 AAON , 2, 06/23/1998 AAON , 3, 06/25/1998 AAON , 4, 07/01/1998 AAP , 1, 06/22/1998 AAP , 2, 06/24/1998 AAP , 3, 06/25/1998 AAP , 4, 06/30/1998 AAPL , 1, 06/22/1998 AAPL , 2, 06/23/1998 AAPL , 3, 06/24/1998 AAPL , 4, 06/25/1998 AAPL , 5, 06/29/1998 AAPL , 6, 07/01/1998 Here is the scan again: output="nietzsche.lst"; integer j, k; k:=0; for j=-9 to 0 step 1 do if close(j)>close(j-1) then k:= 1 + k; println symbol , "," , k:3:0, ", ", date(j); endif; next j;

To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (5157)	7/4/1998 2:22:00 PM
From: TechTrader42	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 11149

However, does Quotes Plus Release 2 have the capability to calculate some statistics for these type of lists?. In particular mean, median, average percentage change, and percentage of stocks increasing in price. With long list like these one needs a way to quickly summarize results and compare strategies. You can sort results based on percentage gain and some other things by going to Reports. Go to the scan program and click on File, Run and then Reports. Then click on Define. This will give you a sorted list, based on percentage gain, for example. It's easy to then import the list in Excel and summarize the lists in any way you want. Just open the list in Excel and use that program to get average percentage change, etc. All around the country, people are celebrating the Fourth by importing QP lists in Excel. Brooke