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To: Gary Lyben who wrote (6992)	10/2/1998 9:06:00 PM
From: holland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Gary Need some help this weekend. Just received and installed new CD. The database was corrupted when the computer locked up and I had to re-boot. Tied to download the required updates and have download close without updating. Need Sept 24 to date for this CD. What is oldest data at site for download? Holland

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (6992)	10/2/1998 9:33:00 PM
From: gonzongo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11149

Gary -If you were to add the 4 items- they would need to be scannable- otherwise we could just go to the net for most of this data. Obviously scannable would give us 4 more criteria to play with - emphasis on "play" gonzongo

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (6992)	10/3/1998 4:24:00 AM
From: Michael Quarne	Respond to of 11149

Hi Gary, What I think. 1. Earnings estimates. Yes 2. Consensus EPS trend. Yes 3. Number of brokers recommending as. Not sure what the value is since most are not TA oriented. 4. Next earnings date. Yes Arctic Mike

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (6992)	10/3/1998 9:19:00 AM
From: Ken Adams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Gary, This is useful info, alright. As Gonzongo said, it would need to be scannable. But, I wonder how many users actually scan on fundys. I seem to recall a few months ago this came up here and the consensus was that most don't do it. I'm not sure I'd want to pay extra for it, since it's available for all to locate elsewhere. JMHO. Ken

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (6992)	10/3/1998 12:57:00 PM
From: Rick Slemmer	Respond to of 11149

Gary: I wouldn't use the fundamentals to scan; even something as basic as P/E multiples are not a factor in short-term price movements. Too often I've seen analysts pile onto the "strong buy" bandwagon, only to desert it wholesale when an earnings warning is announced. By then, of course, it's too late. Speaking only for myself, I would rather keep the program oriented toward the technical side. When a stock looks interesting technically, the fundamentals are easily accessible through free resources on the Web. About the only scan I would consider using would be "stocks reporting earnings within the next five days" in order to catch a move based on expected blowout earnings. Just my 1/50th of a point. RS

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (6992)	10/3/1998 7:05:00 PM
From: TechTrader42	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Gary: It would be nice if you could add an arc tangent function to QP2, so we could find the degrees of angles for changes in price over time. Price change divided by the number of days would give the tangent, but with an arc tangent function we could convert this to degrees. Metastock has the atan function: atan(data array, data array). The data arrays would be the opposite and adjacent sides of the triangle -- for example, the change in price and the number of days. It's easy enough to create formulas that convert radians into degrees, but not so easy with sin, cos and tan. Maybe C++ sin, cos and tan functions could be incorporated into QP2. I wonder, too, whether peak and trough functions could eventually be added to QP2. Those functions are based on the Zig Zag indicator -- and that, too, would make a nice addition. All these things relate to trendlines -- their angles, and the points they're drawn on. Anyway, that's my wish list for trigometric functions and trendlines. Brooke

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (6992)	10/4/1998 10:06:00 AM
From: Debra Orlow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11149

Gary, I am very new to QP, much older to Metastock. 95% of what I scan for are technical readings, so the fundies that you offer right now are only lacking one thing that I look for - average number of shares traded/day. (I know that this is basically technical, and easily found out with a formula, but it would be nice if it was found on the fundy report.) As for the folks that give recommendations, they are called anal-ysts for a reason, in my opinion. But, more importantly, would it be possible to have a separate list made for each day that is scanned? To be able to tag it with a date? For example, to give the existing output="newhighs.lst" the capability to be changed to output="nhmmddyy.lst" where mmddyy is the current date (or the last loaded date). Am I crazy to even suggest this? Or has someone been able to figure this one out already? THIS WOULD MAKE ME A VERY HAPPY CAMPER! Thank you.

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (6992)	10/5/1998 7:11:00 AM
From: holland	Respond to of 11149

Gary I like the idea of next earnings date but don't think that I would be willing to pay extra fo it. Holland

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (6992)	10/5/1998 2:54:00 PM
From: Joe Barger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

My (strong) vote would be to include all 4 items (less strong for brokers recommendations) and make them scannable. While strict TAers may not use it, there are many other current and potential Q+ users (including CANSLIMers and HGSers) who use at least some basic fundamental data (such as the EPS estimates and trends) to make their investment decisions. This would certainly make Q+ even more attractive to this group of users. It is true that most of this data is already on the web, but so is most of the data currently provided in Q+. One of the primary reasons Q+ is so attractive is that the data is complete, accurate, and scannable in one place without having to refer elsewhere. joe

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (6992)	10/5/1998 8:07:00 PM
From: Craig DeHaan	Respond to of 11149

Gary, My username & password are being rejected tonight. I tried turning IRL off in setup to see if the 30 day trial expiration caused the problem but no difference. Please advise. Craig

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (6992)	10/5/1998 9:46:00 PM
From: Gary Lyben	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 11149

All - Take a look at tarnsoft.com This is a TA program named byte into the market. I don't know much about it at all, it does do system testing etc, and it reads the QP2 database directly. He also has a free 30 day trial. Gary

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (6992)	10/6/1998 8:56:00 PM
From: Larry Livingston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11149

Gary or Anyone, My data base is showing today's open for the Dow30 at 7856.26, High at 7951.53, Low at 7646.43. The correct figures, I think, should be Open 7726.24, High 7880.72, Low 7683.51. Is anyone getting these numbers? Or did I get a corrupt download? Thanks, L.L.

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (6992)	10/7/1998 10:44:00 AM
From: Johan Van Houtven	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

<<I'd like to get your feedback on what needs to be in future qp releases.>> Gary, I'd gladly pay extra per month for that data. But it would have to come from a top notch data vendor. Quality data is worth the money, bad data isn't. For fundamental data I wish you could get data from William O'Neil's (IBD, Daily Graphs). But I suspect that he doesn't sell it to resellers, right? One more thing I'd like to see changed: In the charting program: Could you place the 'cursor value' in the main working screen area. Maybe at the right bottom of the screen. Having to call up the 'data view' window and moving it multiple times, because it is in my way is a real pain. Scanning for the cursor value in the crowded data view window also is quite tiring. Thanks for listening. Regards, Johan