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To: Joe Barger who wrote (5677)	7/30/1998 8:07:00 PM
From: Dale Wingo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Joe "hooks" were there that would allow third parties to access the QP2 data and write their own applications Wellll... The hooks are there but they allow only the accessing of data from the database not writing/rewriting to it. Additionally, If I were Gary I would never allow any 3d party to write into a database that I were furnishing as a service. Too many chances of a screwup and then trying to figure out how to straighten it out. If a 3d party were to do this then it would have to be a "kludge" outside of the Q+ system and could prove to be an awkward arrangement (at first blush). What about a scan input list for each new group comprised of the stocks in that group? From there you could println a "," file and then import that into Excel or whatever..? I personally happen to be in Richard's camp on this one and don't have the interest in writing such.. I could, however write you a macro in Excel that would perhaps open a text file with a list of symbols and autoload the spreadsheet with x days worth of history or something along these lines.. Dale

To: Joe Barger who wrote (5677)	7/31/1998 1:21:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 11149

Joe, You Can't create custom groups in QP2 yet but you can do the following. Scan and pre-defined industry groups. There are many 500+ of these including IRL and SP sector indexes. IRL - will be coming out soon with native support for QP2. With this you can create sectors and do percentile rankings. QP2 Does have an API to access their database. There is a DLL subdirectory in the qp2 program directory. In there you will find the dll's and the sample programs for visual basic and visual c++. Here's a great tip for doing visual relative strength in QP2 Charting. hit space. Enter an index symbol or market. !ID100 - for example not hit f2. That loads into the speadsheet the components of that index. Now press the hide button. then select on the menu: options->overlay Enter the symbol again: !ID100 It now overlays the index on the first stock in the index. Now you can use pageup/pagedown keys or arrow buttons to rotate through the charts of the indexes members stocks with the index overlayyed. You could open a list of say nasdaq stocks. Then overlay !COMP and visually compare the charts. BTW: Gary also mentioned Technifilter Plus will be releasing a native QP2 version very shortly. Technifilter has a much more powerful, if a bit cryptic scanning language which should handle your desire. At least a few things to consider... Lobby your charting software vendors to support this open standard and eliminate metastock file headaches forever. Sean