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To: bdog who wrote (6006)	8/13/1998 9:59:00 PM
From: Monty Lenard	Respond to of 11149

Hey bdog, OK, I tried your reverse engineering. That's a neat way to do it! I now understand what you are doing. Thanks! If I add movavg(bar,20,cl) to the println statement the scan confuses me even more... how can you have a negative ma as some come up? I know "garbage in garbage out" but some of the things I am seeing happen just astound me. Monty

To: bdog who wrote (6006)	8/14/1998 4:03:00 AM
From: Bob Jagow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11149

It has to scan the whole db, bdog, to see which are commons. A prescan will avoid the wait by isolating the commons (no need to specify exchange if you want all 3). -Bob ------------------ output = "common.lst"; issuetype=common; println symbol;

To: bdog who wrote (6006)	8/14/1998 1:21:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11149

Bdog, It still looks at them but will not select them. We have asked gary about this before and he says its not easy to change. So you won't get them in the output list but may have to wait an extra 20 seconds for it to get through all the indexes... Sean

To: bdog who wrote (6006)	8/16/1998 4:28:00 PM
From: Nazbuster	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 11149

bdog, I too get irritated with the index entries taking too much time in scans, so I created a scan called "!!!Select$10" which builds "Over$10.lst". This selects AMEX, NASDAQ, and NYSE issues over $10 having avg volume (last 30days) of over 20k and at least 250days loaded. After exiting and re-entering the scan program (what a crock), the scan program name positions itself at the top of the list. Set all your other scans to input the Over$10.lst as the input file: input = "Over$10.lst";