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To: CatLady who wrote (9063)	3/18/1999 10:00:00 PM
From: Richard Estes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Always your choice. In the future it will be improved attempting to give those that have problems with scan formulas or Excel, a relatively easy means.

To: CatLady who wrote (9063)	3/19/1999 9:29:00 AM
From: John Schott	Respond to of 11149

QPFS vs. Excel or any old spreadsheet. My Guess only. Sean has it partly right. Gary indicated some time ago, he was getting suggestions to make Scanning easier for the non-programmer customer base. So making QPFS is the QP answer, if not alot more. I also agree that being an old fogey/fogie, I'm learning to like the original Scan language. I agree that from what we've seen so far, QPFS will enable more powerful scans by the feable minded - and the rest of us too. However, I suspect we are seeing only the Front End of QPFS, the pretty interface. For surely (Gary doesn't loan me his playbook), this becomes a vehicle for all sorts of future upgrades. You'll note that the first release contained a vastly different method of constructing scan equations, few functions and a fairly simple appearance - while the second release is quite a bit more sophisticated visually, functionally and otherwise. Plus almost the whole library of speadsheet functions has now been imported. I confess to being a bit remiss on this (confident that V2 would do what I'd have suggested), but Gary (unlike the competition) is opening trolling for suggestions from his loyal customer base. We've all previously experienced a user comment quickly appearing in the next QP2 upgrade (unlike other/competing products to which I've contributed suggestions to their trash can). I've often looked at the Vbasic hooks he's offered all along and said I've got to finally really learn VB - and now he's rolling out QPFS with alot of what I'd though to do implemented as tools I can use. (It's: Integrated Technical/Fundamental screening in QPFS and more.)

To: CatLady who wrote (9063)	3/19/1999 9:41:00 AM
From: Gary Lyben	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 11149

Cat Lady - I'm glad you asked that. What you're seeing now is just the spreadsheet portion. We will be adding additional features as fast as we can. What's coming next is sorting, headers and fundamental functions so you can rank lists based on fundamentals - earnings, Zacks, revenues, float etc. After that, the Quick Scan portion will be added. You will be able to create lists using a drag and drop interface interface to select issues on a variety of criteria. Let's say that you want to rank all of internet issues. So you can get the components of the IRL internet index, the !IIX and the !DOT in a list, apply a template that contains StochRSI, Zacks estimates etc, and rank them as you see fit. All of this with NO programming, NO exporting or importing data, NO VBA functions in Excel. Yes, you will be able to do additional formulas etc in Excel and you will be able to export the data to Metastock or ASCII, but this will be a fast and easy way to process a lot of information in a very short time. We will also add charts as a view of the list, so that you can view the list in a spreadsheet format, as a graph or as charts with a few clicks. What you're seeing in the Alpha releases are intermediate development milestones. A tremendous amount of work has already been done. Gary