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PTT (Personal Ticker Tape)
Table Of Contents
Introduction 3
Requirements to use Personal Ticker Tape 3
Personal Ticker Tape Features 5
About the TRIAL period 6
Description of PTT Features 7
Translation of Ticker Symbols 8
Overview of PTT Processing 10
Personal Ticker Tape Installation and Setup 11
Extracting the PTT program files 11
Setting up PTT for use with your system 11
Setup Your Data Directories 11
Raw Quote Input File 12
Formatted ASCII File 13
ASCII Format Type 13
Notify of Possible Splits 13
Prompt for Missing Symbols 14
Reverify Data Files 14
Rebuild Symbol Index 15
Maximum LookBack Period 15
Maximum Number of Ticker Symbols 15
Append to Log File 16
Specifying Modem Parameters 16
Communications Port 17
Pulse or Tone 17
Carrier Detect (CD) 17
Data Set Ready (DSR) 17
Modem Initialization Commands 18
Setting up for Downloading 18
Downloading Quotes 19
PTT Operation 20
Command Line Options for PTT 21
The -f option 21
The -a option 21
The -D option 21
The -Q option 22
The -u option 22
The -x option 22
The -m option 22
The -RY and -RN options 22
The -M option to look for Missing Updates 22
Specifying the Raw Quote Input File 23
An Few Examples 23
Creating Reports of Current Price/Volume Activity 24
"Formatted" ASCII Data 24
Prodigy Market Close Information 26
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PRODIGY "&" Symbols 28
Description of PTTSYM files 29
Raw Quote Conversion Notes 29
Dow Jones News Service Quotes 30
Converting DOW JONES HISTORICAL QUOTES (//HQ) 30
Converting DOW JONES AVERAGES (//DJA) 30
Converting DOW JONES //TRADELINE quotes 31
GEnie quotes (Daily and Historical) 31
CompuServe Quick and Basic Quotes 32
CompuServe Information Manager quotes 33
Additional PTT Usage Notes 34
How to create Metastock Format files 35
PTT Restrictions 35
Support for Personal Ticker Tape 35
How to Get Help 35
PTT BBS Operation 35
SAMPLE PTT SUMMARY REPORT 36
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PTT (Personal Ticker Tape)
Introduction
Personal Ticker Tape, PTT, is a software program
designed to assist you, the investor, in maintaining
current security data. PTT has many features which you
should find useful in the daily process of obtaining
security quotes and updating historical data files.
PTT updates the following types of historical data
files:
- MetaStock (1)
- MegaTech or ChartPro (.PRO format files)
PTT has a downloading feature to access quote services
from the
- Compuserve Information Service "Basic" Area.
- GEnie Closing Quotes service
- Other services to be added in a future release
PTT can also process downloaded data from several major
on line services.
PTT generates "color coded" daily update screens,
highlighting symbols whose volume and/or price has
changed by percentage amounts that you specify. In
addition, PTT generates a file containing a summary
report for all symbols processed. This file is named
"PTT.RPT" and is placed in the current directory.
Requirements to use Personal Ticker Tape
Personal Ticker Tape requires an
- IBM PC or Compatible with 640K of Memory
Optional hardware
- Hard Disk
- Extended Memory with an EMS Driver Loaded
- Mouse
- Hayes-compatible Modem
Software Required:
- DOS 3.3 or later
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1 MetaStock is a trademark of Equis International
MegaTech is a program produced by Ret-Tech
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Optional Software:
- Metastock format data files
or
- ChartPro format data files
- Expanded Memory Driver (QEMM, 386MAX, etc)
What You FlexSoft can provide you with another program, called
Will Need to PDL, to get the quotes from Prodigy. PDL is a program to
Use PTT download Prodigy (2) Quote Track data into a file. Using
QUOTE TRACK, PDL can retrieve a maximum of 4000 quotes
in each session.
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2 Dow Jones News Retrieval is an information data service provided by
Dow Jones and Co. ]
GEnie is an information data service provided by General Electric Co.
CompuServe is an information service provided by Compuserve Inc
Prodigy is a registered service mark and trademark of
Prodigy Services Company
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Personal Ticker Tape Features
1) Automatically builds the list of stocks to be
downloaded in order to update your databases on a
daily basis.
2) Extracts quote data from many captured quote files,
such as Prodigy, Compuserve, GEnie, Dow Jones and
other sources you can define yourself. PTT applies
extensive checking to each line of the print image
file to ensure that only stock/bond/fund quote data
is extracted.
3) Translates Ticker Symbols from the data vendor's
symbol format to your own version of the Ticker
Symbol.
4) Registered version notifies you of potential stock
splits while updating and can create a report of
securities not updated.
5) Ignores non-quote lines in the print image file,
allowing you to use the same file for saving
printed mail, screen images, etc.
6) Fixes up the dates of the quotes so that they are
on the correct business day, no matter which day
you download them. This allows quotes to be
retrieved on weekends or early in the morning
before the market opens.
7) Allows multiple quotes for the same stock to be in
the print image file. This allows you to accumulate
quotes in a file as long as you want without making
you create a new file daily.
8) Optionally creates an ASCII formatted quote file
suitable for input to a spreadsheet program.
9) Replaces and enhances the updating functions of
QUOTREAD (Chartpro utility) and MSU (Metastock
Utility). Duplicate dates are not allowed in the
data file.
10) Allows the creation of a new data file when a
symbol is added for the first time.
11) Easy to use installation and customization. Online
HELP while customizing PTT.
12) Fast Indexed symbol lookup via auxiliary files for
FASTER file access.
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About the TRIAL period
If you are evaluating PTT, you are allowed to use the
program for 3 weeks. It will give you an opportunity to
try the program in a somewhat limited fashion(3).
When you run PTT, you will see the date on which the
trial period ends. After that date, you will be
reminded to register your copy of the program. This
reminder occurs as you are updating your data files. In
addition, as a trial user, you can only update one data
directory at a time rather than 20.
You are allowed to copy and distribute the ENTIRE and
UNALTERED package freely. It may be uploaded to bulletin
boards or given to others, as long as the registration
information is not transferred.
If you believe that the registration amount is
appropriate for the usefulness of this program and its
features to you, print the file REGISTER.DOC which came
with this program and follow the instructions for
registering the program.
Disclaimer. The author assumes no responsibility for any damages
caused by the use or misuse of this product. This
product is distributed "as is" with no warranty
expressed or implied. The author will not be responsible
for any losses incurred, either directly or indirectly,
by the use of this product. The author reserves the
right to make modifications at any time. Prices are
subject to change without notice. FlexSoft makes no
warranty for continued use of this program or
maintainance of compatibility with any of the data
services and formats supported.
Registration You may not divulge or redistribute your registration
Code Secrecy code , nor may you transfer it to anyone else.
If you divulge or publish your registration code to an
unregistered party, or parties, that registration code
will be invalidated and your code will not work for
future upgrades to PTT or any other FlexSoft product
until a new code is obtained at the full price for the
product whose code was compromised.
____________________
3 The unregistered PTT will allow only 1 data directory, and cannot be
run from a batch file. The unregistered PTT download feature allows
only 40 ticker symbols to be downloaded from a data service.
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Description of PTT Features
Downloads Personal Ticker Tape can download quotes directly from
Compuserve the Compuserve Basic Quote area. There is no limit to
Basic Quotes the number of quotes you can obtain from this source.
The advantage over other sources is that the Compuserve
Basic Quote area is accessible for $7.95/mo with no
connect charges.
Translation PTT reads and automatically determines the type and
of Raw format of a file containing the printed output from any
Quotes from of the source shown below. A file containing quotes from
Various any of these sources is referred to as a RAW QUOTE INPUT
Sources FILE.
+ PRODIGY QUOTE TRACK or QUOTE CHECK
+ PRODIGY & Symbols for Market Indices
+ Many PRODIGY "Market Close" Indicators
+ DOW JONES(*) HISTORICAL QUOTES
+ DOW JONES //TRADELINE Pricing History
+ GEnie(*) Daily Quotes
+ CompuServe Quick Quotes (QQUOTE)
+ CompuServe Basic Quotes (BASICQUOTE)
PTT then extracts stock quotes from the file. These
quotes are written to a "FORMATTED ASCII" file that can
then be imported into a spreadsheet or loaded directly
into your data base.
The 'FORMATTED ASCII' file which PTT creates can have
multiple quote formats. See the description below for
the various format types.
PTT has a Setup Menu interface which allows you to set
processing parameters for the historical data file
update function.
When PTT is installed and run the first time, it creates
a pair of "index" and "summary" files which are used to
lookup the data files much more rapidly on subsequent
runs of PTT. These files allow PTT to go directly to
the data file without scanning the directory index.
The registered version of PTT allows you to update up to
50 Metastock data directories at one time.
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Translation of Ticker Symbols
Please take Because the various data vendors have different symbol
the time to conventions, especially for securities other than common
read this! stock and mutual funds, switching from one vendor to
another can cause problems.
For example, suppose that you have SP-500 as the symbol
in your data files. The SP-500 quote on Compuserve is
obtained by asking for "SP 500", while on Dow Jones
//TRADELINE, it is "SPX.I". Since PTT obtains the list
of ticker symbols which it should download from your
data directory's ticker symbol, if it were to attempt to
download "SP-500" from Compuserve, the symbol would not
be found. And, even if you had downloaded the quotes by
some other method, the Compuserve "SP 500" would not
match your data directory's "SP-500" symbol, so it would
be treated as a new symbol.
One solution to this problem is to have a set of
"translate" files for each data vendor. So, for
Compuserve, you would translate the data directory
symbol "SP-500" to "SP 500" before requesting the quote
from Compuserve, then when the quote was processed by
the update, you would translate "SP 500" to "SP-500" in
order to locate the ticker file in your data base.
PTT has this facility to translate based on this
translate list. For each vendor, you create a file that
contains the translation rules to translate that
vendor's ticker symbols to your data directory symbols.
The names of the translate files indicate which data
vendor the translation is provided for. These files are
named as follows:
PRODIGY.XLT for PRODIGY downloaded data
GENIE.XLT for GEnie downloaded data
CIS.XLT for Compuserve downloaded data
DOWJONES.XLT for Dow Jones downloaded data
The contents of each of these files is a list of lines,
where each line contains the following:
data_dir_symbol = service_symbol
For example, if you have BP% (British Petroleum 93
Warrants) in your data directory symbol, and you know
that issue has a symbol of "BP/WS" on Compuserve, you
would put the following line into your CIS.XLT:
BP%=BP/WS
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and, if you wanted to translate "SP-500" in your data to
"SP 500" quote request on Compuserve, you would add the
line:
SP-500=SP 500
to your CIS.XLT file.
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Overview of PTT Processing
The diagram below presents an overview of the processing
which takes place during the various phases of Personal
Ticker Tape's execution.
Using PTT or your own
communications program,
PTT DownLoad download daily quotes to a
or User Comm "Raw Quote" file
Program
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The "Raw Quote" file is an
Raw Quote Input unformatted file exactly as
File it is retrieved from the
data vendor.
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PTT now scans and extracts
PTT Processing the quote fields from the
Convert from Raw to vendor's format, and creates
Formatted a "Formatted ASCII" file
according to the format you
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This "Formatted ASCII" file
Formatted ASCII is used by PTT when it
File updates, and it can also be
"PTTASC.PRN" used by your own programs,
especially spreadsheets.
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PTT reads the formatted
PTT Processing quote file, locating each
Update Data Base security symbol in your
from Formatted historical data base and
ASCII File updating each.
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Finally, the result of this
Updated History process is a completely
Data Base updated historical data
base.
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Personal Ticker Tape Installation and Setup
Extracting the PTT program files
Personal Ticker Tape should be installed in its own
directory. For consistency, it is recommended that it be
installed in the \PTT directory. If you received PTT
from FlexSoft on an installation disk, follow the
instructions that come with the disk.
If you have downloaded PTT from a bulletin board or
other source, it may be in either self-extracting format
(with a suffix .EXE) or it may be in another compression
format. In the first case, simply make a directory for
PTT, copy the PTT*.EXE file into the directory and then
type PTT*.EXE (where * is the a number indicating the
PTT release and version number).
If you received PTT in some other format other than an
.EXE file, you should follow the instructions that come
with the file compression utility (e.g., PKZIP and
PKUNZIP).
Setting up PTT for use with your system
Once PTT's program files are extracted, you need to
customize PTT for your configuration. Type the command
PTT
to invoke the program. You will be asked to enter your
registration code and name at this point. If you have
registered the program, enter the number provided to you
when you registered. If not, simply fill in your name
and hit ENTER until you are brought to the Main Menu.
The Main Menu of PTT is a single line across the top of
the screen which shows you what your options are. Choose
the Setup option by moving the cursor to that item and
hitting ENTER.
Setup Your Data Directories
Choose the Data Directories option. If you have
registered the program, you will be presented with room
to insert up to 20 directories.
If you are evaluating PTT, you will only see room for
one directory.
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Specify your Enter the full path to your Metastock or ChartPro format
historical directories in each entry field.
data format
Next to each directory name entry area is an entry field
where you tell PTT which kind of historical dataIf you
have Metastock data, choose the "MSP" option, and if you
have ChartPro data format, choose the "PRO" format
option.
Once done, hit CTRL-ENTER to save the entries.
For Since PTT opens all of the directories at the time it
Metastock begins the update, as well as several other files, you
Users Only may have to modify your CONFIG.SYS to increase the
setting of FILES= parameter by the number of DATA
Directories you define plus about five. For example, if
your CONFIG.SYS setting for FILES= is FILES=20 and you
have 20 DATA directories, you might have to change the
number to
FILES=45 (This is 20 for the original plus 25)
Now specify Then, go to the Update Options menu item and fill in the
the Update entry fields in that panel. See the discussion of the
Options Formatted ASCII file (page 24), Raw Quote Files (page
7), and other terms used by PTT for information on how
to set these values.
If you need help on any of the fields of this screen,
hit the F1 function key while your cursor is positioned
in the field. The PTT.HLP file contains descriptions of
of the usage and meaning of each field.
Raw Quote Input File
Raw Quote Input File is the name of the downloaded file
from Prodigy, Compuserve, GEnie or Dow Jones News
Service. This file is "raw", in that it looks just like
the terminal session you had with that service.
If you have PDL, the normal name for this file is
"\PDL\PDL.OUT".
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Formatted ASCII File
The Formatted ASCII file name is where PTT will place
the "formatted" quotes. The default name for this file
is PTTASC.PRN. This file is the one that contains the
"comma delimited" records formatted according to the
"ASCII Format Type" shown below.
ASCII Format Type
This is a coded number that corresponds to various
combinations of symbol, date, high, low, close, volume,
open, and open interest orders in the Formatted ASCII
file. The code of "1" will provide all the data items
above. Other combinations specify different formats for
the date field, and order of data field, i.e., whether
to put quotes around the symbol name and date..hit F1 on
this field to see the explanation.
Notify of Possible Splits
If you want PTT to notify you of possible stock splits
while it is updating, specify 'Y' in this entry.
Otherwise specify 'N'. Look in the PTT.LOG file for the
suggested split ratios.
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Prompt for Missing Symbols
If you have ChartPro/Megatech, setting this to "Y" will
cause PTT to AUTOMATICALLY add the .PRO file for any
symbol it encounters for which a data file does not
exist. If you specify "N" for this field, PTT will skip
the missing symbols and not add them to the database.
For Metastock Users, the situation is somewhat more
complex: If you want PTT to stop when it encounters a
symbol in the ASCII file which is NOT in the MetaStock
data base, specify 'Y' in this entry. By doing so, PTT
will allow you to enter the COMPANY NAME associated with
the symbol. PTT will then ADD the symbol and the quotes
to the MetaStock data base.
If you decide to start following a stock, fund or bond,
say AAPL, and you haven't added the security to
MetaStock yet; then when PTT comes across a new symbol,
it will ask you for the "full company name" of the
symbol and add it to the data base for you. Be sure you
have enough room left in your data base, however. You
can only have 255 data files per MetaStock
datadirectory. Occasionally you should run MSSORT to
drop any old ones.
As just described, PTT will stop and ask you to input a
company symbol if it encounters a symbol not contained
in the METASTOCK MASTER file. If you are gathering
quotes into one file and updating more than one
MetaStock MASTER file, this could be a real hassle.
If you run one file past 2 or more MetaStock data bases,
only the symbols that are in a data base will be
updated. This means you'll have to use the more
traditional method of adding stocks to your MetaStock
data base, i.e., you'll have to do it through MetaStock.
Reverify Data Files
Leave this setting set to "N" unless you have reason to
believe that there are duplicate dates or dates out of
order in your data files. If you set this to "Y", PTT
will read the entire historical data file, sort the
quotes by date and rewrite the file, dropping any
duplicates or quotes with invalid high,low,close
relationships.
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Rebuild Symbol Index
When you first install PTT, or whenever you add or move
a historical data file that you want PTT to update, you
should set this parameter to "Y" to cause PTT to
"Reverify/Rebuild" its symbol lookup files (PTTSYM.IX
and PTTSYM.DB). If you do not change your data directory
contents by moving or adding symbols or changing the
order of the directories from one run of PTT to another,
then this parameter can be set to "N" to speed up the
updating and reporting functions.
Maximum LookBack Period
This value is the maximum number of quotes in the past
that PTT will access when computing the volume and price
averages and new high, new low figures. To enhance PTT
performance, you can set this value to a lower number.
By default, the number set is 260 days, providing a
comparison of the last year of daily data.
If this value is set too large, PTT may reduce it to
some value that it can accomodate in the memory
available.
If this value is set too low, you may not be able to add
an imported historical data file containing more quotes
than the lookback period.
Maximum Number of Ticker Symbols
Specify the maximum number of ticker symbols that you
will want have in all your data directories. This number
is used to build the PTTSYM.IX and PTTSYM.DB speedup
index so that PTT can find any symbol, in any directory,
in the shortest time possible.
If you make this number too small, PTT will crash when
it encounters more than the number of symbols in all
your data directories.
Note that changing this value requires you to delete the
PTTSYM.* files before using PTT again. In addition, PTT
will need to recompute the high, low and averages for
each symbol. The specification of this value consumes
the following amount of disk space:
11 * 4 * max_symbols +
44 * number of symbols actually updated
For 300 symbols, this would be
11 * 4 * 300 = 13200 +
300 * 44 = 13200
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= 26400 bytes
Append to Log File
PTT keeps a "log" file where it places status and error
messages that may occur during the process of converting
and updating your data. If you specify "Y" to this
setting, PTT will add the messages to the end of the
file each time it runs. If you specify "N" to this
setting, PTT will erase and restart the file from the
beginning each time it runs. The name of this file is
"PTT.LOG".
The author uses the following setup on this page:
+--------------Setup Process/Update Options-------------------------+
| Raw Quote Input File C:\PDL\PDL.OUT |
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| Formatted ASCII File? PTTASC.PRN |
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| ASCII Format Type? 1 Average Volume Calculations # of Days? 1 |
| Flag Changes in Volume above? 50 |
| Notify of Possible Splits Y and in Price above? 10 |
| Maximum Number of Ticker Symbols 1000 |
| Maximum Lookback Period 260 |
| Prompt for Missing Symbols N Append to Log File? Y |
| |
| Reverify Data Files? N |
| Rebuild Symbol Index? Y |
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Specifying Modem Parameters
If you plan to use PTT to download directly from a data
service (such as Compuserve or GEnie) you will need to
fill in the Modem Setup screen shown below. This is
where you specify the serial communication port, and
other parameters shown below in order to use PTT to
download.
+----------------------Modem and Phone Type-----------------------+
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| Communications Port 1 |
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| Pulse or Tone (P or T) T |
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| Modem Supports CD? Y DSR? Y |
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| Modem Initialization Commands (without AT prefix) |
| Z^ME1Q0X1V1^M&C1&D1 |
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| Hit the F1 Function Key for Help on each field |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
Communications Port
Choose the Modem Port menu item and fill in the number
which corresponds to the serial port number to which
your modem is attached. You can place the modem on any
port from 1 to 4.
PTT only operates with "Hayes compatible" modems. It
works with MNP, V.32, V.32bis and V.42 modems, but it is
necessary that the command set for the modem comply to
the minimal Hayes standards. This is generally the case
with most modems purchased in the last few years.
Pulse or Tone
If your telephone system uses Tone Dialing, enter a "T".
Otherwise, enter "P" for Pulse Dialing. Tone dialing
sounds like a series of tones when you dial rather than
a ratatat sound of a "pulsed" dial.
Carrier Detect (CD)
If your modem is set to report the presence of a
"carrier signal" when there is an online connection,
specify "Y" here. The CD signal is the only way that PTT
can tell if the session is still connected. Most modems
can be set to report the presence of CD. Consult your
modem manual if you don't know how to do it. In general,
the modem command "&C1" is used to enable this feature.
Data Set Ready (DSR)
If your modem can report DSR, then PTT can test if the
modem is plugged in and available. If you specify "Y"
here, PTT will attempt to test the modem's presence
before starting to send commands to it. If you receive a
message indicating the "modem port is not valid", it is
possible that your modem is not sending DSR in to your
computer. If this occurs, set the DSR setting above to
"N".
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Modem Initialization Commands
Most modems and programs require some special "commands"
in order to work together. Since PTT can be used with
many different modems that do not share identical
command sets, it is up to you to customize the modem so
that it can be used with PTT.
The Modem Initialization string is not normally needed,
but if you encounter problems connecting, you might need
to set some modem parameters, and this would be the
place to do it. Do not include the "AT" command prefix
in this area, since that is automatically inserted by
PTT when it issues this command.
PTT expects the settings shown below. The items shown
before the explanations are the "usual" modem commands
for the option.
V1 Verbose return codes
Q0 Report return codes after each command
E1 Echo Commands
X1 Report Connect message only
&C1 Data Carrier Detect (DCD) shows true state of the
remote carrier signal
&D2 Data Terminal Ready (DTR) should reset modem if
dropped
An example of a modem initialization string that should
work for many modems is the following:
Z^MV1E1X1Q0^M&C1&D2
Setting up for Downloading
Once you have told PTT where your data files are and how
you want to update them, you need to specify some
information necessary for communicating with the data
vendor (Compuserve or GEnie at this time). Choose the
vendor (Compuserve or GEnie) Setup option.
Here you will be asked for your userid, password, access
number and connect speed. Consult your service
documentation for the correct userid and password. You
need to fill in the phone number which is to be dialed
to connect to the service.
Save your settings by hitting CTRL-ENTER.
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Special Before using PTT to download quotes from Compuserve,
Requirements make sure that your Compuserve TERMINAL setting
for specifies "Other" as the terminal type. To verify this,
Compuserve log on to Compuserve, GO TERMINAL, and look at your
Access Session Settings. If you have any other setting, PTT
will show some "strange" character sequences at the
bottom of the page whenever Compuserve tries to clear
the screen. This will cause PTT to wait, since it won't
recognize this sequence.
In addition, you should set the PAGED DISPLAY setting to
"NO" to prevent PTT from having to wait every 24 lines
during quote downloading.
Special In order to download from GEnie, you must set up your
Requirements GEnie User Settings correctly. Prior to running PTT for
for GEnie the first time, log on to GEnie using some manual
Access procedure. Type "SET" to go to the User Settings section
of GEnie. Choose the item "Review/Update User Settings".
Then, you will be presented with a menu entitled
"Terminal Settings". You should have Terminal Type set
to 6, Page Width set to 80, and Page Length set to 0.
Any other settings for Page Length cause GEnie to prompt
for a Carriage Return in the midst of the download.
Downloading Quotes
You can download quotes to the file or directory you
specified in the Update Settings as the Raw Quote Input
File. Choose the Download Menu item and move to the
service name from which you wish to download. Hit ENTER
on that service.
PTT now reads each of the data directories you specified
in the Setup Data Directories menu and creates a list of
quotes to download based on the type of service you are
accessing.
For a daily quote service, PTT builds a quote request
for each symbol, unless that symbol has not been found
on a prior download (these symbols are found in the file
NOQUOTE.???, where "???" is the service name4).
After reading all the ticker symbols in your data
directories, PTT will read an additional file named
"TICKER.IN" for any new quotes you wish to download.
This file should contain a ticker symbol on each line.
For example, if you want to start accumulating quotes
for IBM and AMH, you would create the 'TICKER.IN' file
with the two lines below:
____________________
4 Service extensions to file names are "CIS" for Compuserve, "GEN" for
GEnie.
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IBM
AMH
The ticker symbols must begin in the first position of
the line and there should not be anything following the
ticker symbol.
If you have specified a "translate file" (see the
section on "Translation of Ticker Symbols"), PTT will,
at this point, translate your ticker symbols to those
required by the data vendor.
To stop the PTT will now log on to the service, request the quotes
download, and place them in the file. To stop the download while
hit the ESC it is running, hit the ESC key once to cause PTT to log
key off the data service.
If a quote Once the quotes are downloaded, you should run an Update
should not Data command from the Main Menu.
be in the
NOQUOTE.SYM Any symbol not found on the data service will be placed
file, in a file "NOQUOTE.SYM" which will be used in the first
remove it step (above) to avoid asking for that symbol again. This
with a text prevents the needless asking for quotes that do not
editor. match those on the service.
If you have a symbol in your ticker file that does not
match the symbol on the data service, you need to either
change your historical data file's ticker symbol, or add
that symbol to the vendor.XLT translate file.
Determining Specifying the file name to which PTT is to download can
the file be done in several ways
name for the
download
1) Specify a specific name in the RAW QUOTE FILE name.
2) Specify a directory name in the RAW QUOTE FILE
name. If you specify a directory name, PTT will
download to a file name created in the form
'YYMMDD.svc' where 'YYMMDD' is the current date
according to your system clock, and 'svc' is
'GEN' for GEnie
'CIS' for Compuserve.
3) Specify a file or directory name on the PTT command
line as the last argument
PTT Operation
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Command Line Options for PTT
Command Line Personal Ticker Tape is meant to be run from the DOS
parameters command line rather than interactively. In order to do
are Case this, it has numerous command line options that can set
Sensitive and control the PTT processing run.
(meaning you
must specify The following section will cover the major useful
upper and command line options that would be used on a day-to-day
lower case basis.
where shown)
The -f option
The "-f " option allows you to set the ASCII Format Type
from the command line. The parameter following the "-f "
should be one of the formats listed in the Setup Update
Options panel.
The -a option
The "-a " option tells PTT that the file (or file list)
following this "-a " contains Formatted ASCII files in
the format specified by the current ASCII Format Type
setting. You can use DOS type "wildcards" in the RAW
QUOTE FILE name to process more than one file.
If a Raw Quote Input File is specified, the file
following the "-a " will contain the output of PTT's
scan of the Raw Quote File.
If no Raw Quote Input File is specified, then PTT will
assume that the file specification following the "-a "
contains an already formatted file and will use it as
input to the update process. You can use DOS type
"wildcards" in the FORMATTED ASCII FILE name to process
more than one file as well.
The -D option
To invoke an automatic download from the DOS command
line, use the "-D " option on the command line.
Following the "-D ", specify the line number of the
Download menu choice as shown on the Main Menu. For
example, to download from Compuserve Basic Quotes (the
first line in the DownLoad Menu), use
"-D 1"
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The -Q option
If you want to turn off the report that goes to the
screen and the PTT.RPT file, use this option (Q for
"quiet").
The -u option
The "-u" option on the command line with a -D request to
DOWNLOAD will tell PTT to do an update with the current
downloaded data after the download completes
successfully.
The -x option
The "-x" option on the command line (before the RAW
QUOTE FILE name) will cause PTT to do all processing
except the historical data file updating. This option is
useful if you want PTT to parse the Raw Quote Input
File, but do not want to update your data files without
inspecting the Formatted ASCII file.
The -m option
You can specify the Maximum LookBack Period by using the
"-m" option followed by a number between 1 and 10000
which will be used for the lookback period
The -RY and -RN options
To tell PTT to rebuild the Index files, specify "-RY" on
the command line. To avoid rebuilding the index files,
specify "-RN" on the command line. See page 15 for a
description of PTT symbol index processing.
The -M option to look for Missing Updates
PTT can be used to create a report of those securities
which have not been updated. It does this by scanning
the PTTSYM files looking for the most recent update
date. Then, it scans the securities looking for those
whose last update is not equal to that highest update
date. A report is generated to the screen and to the
PTT.LOG file if any securities are found to have a
different update date.
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Specifying the Raw Quote Input File
The last parameter on a PTT command line must be the
name of the Raw Quote Input File. If you are downloading
via the -D command option, the downloaded data will be
placed in this file and the update will take place from
this file.
An Few Examples
If you want to simply run PTT from a batch file (and you
have registered), you can place the following command in
the batch file:
PTT input_quote_filename
where "input_quote_filename" is the name of the RAW
QUOTE INPUT file. The update process will use the
parameters you last specified in the PTT menu for PTT
Update Parameters (raw quote file name, etc) and the
data directories you specified in the DATA Directories
screen.
To download from Compuserve Basic Quotes, place the
quotes in file CIS.LOG, format the files according to
ASCII Format 1 (7 field with quotes around symbol and
date), you would use this command:
PTT -f 1 -D 1 CIS.LOG
To download as just shown above, and then to update your
data files in one step, place the "-u" flag on the
command line as follows:
PTT -f 1 -D 1 -u CIS.LOG
To update your historical data from a previously
formatted data file contained in DJ30.PRN in 5-field MSU
export format, you would say:
PTT -f 8 -a DJ30.PRN
Assuming you had a directory, called \DATA with several
5-field .PRN files in it, each named with the symbol
name as "symbol.PRN", you could run PTT to update all
the symbols in the directory as follows:
PTT -f 8 -a \DATA\*.PRN
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The Free Financial Network (FFN) stock data file for
04/28 of the current year can be processed by the
following command
PTT -f 6 -a STK0428.PRN
or if you had placed your Stock, Futures, and Index data
from FFN in the directory FFN, you could process them
all by the command
PTT -f 6 -a FFN\*.PRN
Creating Reports of Current Price/Volume Activity
PTT generates a report as it updates the data files.
For each symbol updated, it contains the number of
quotes, the AVERAGE VOLUME for the symbol, the CHANGE IN
PRICE from the previous close, and the VOLUME%CHANGE
(from the average volume). This last value can be very
useful in spotting unusual activity in a security. This
report can give you a jump on the rest of the world as
they wait for their Investor's Daily to arrive. This
report is written to the file PTT.RPT in the \PTT
directory.
The first time you run PTT to update your data files, it
will take LONGER than normally will be required, because
it reads each file completely to compute the necessary
statistics, such as TOTAL VOLUME, HIGH, and LOW price.
After the totals have been computed and stored in the
file "PTTSYM.DB", it will not be necessary for PTT to
re-compute these amounts, so the update will be
extremely fast.
PTT will also allow you to create these reports on your
Data without actually updating them with PTT.
"Formatted" ASCII Data
All "raw" quote sources are converted and written to a
"formatted ASCII" file, sorted by symbol and date. You
can define the style of Formatted ASCII that you want
PTT to produce in the PTT menu area "Describe PTT
Updating Parameters". The field you should set is
labelled 'ASCII FORMAT TYPE'. Choose one of the codes
below. The default format is 0.
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Type Description
0 "symbol","mm/dd/yy",hi,lo,cl,vol
(5 field format)
1 "symbol","mm/dd/yy",hi,lo,cl,vol,open,0
(7-field)
2 symbol,yymmdd,hi,lo,cl,vol
3 symbol,yymmdd,open,hi,lo,cl,vol,0
6 symbol,hi,lo,cl,vol
or
symbol,open,hi,lo,cl,vol,open_int
Free Financial Network'FFN'
Historical Data Svc 'HDS'
7 "mm/dd/yy",open,hi,lo,cl,vol,open_int
(Chartpro)
8 yymmdd,hi,lo,cl,vol
(MSU ASCII EXPORT)
9 symbol,yymmdd,open,hi,lo,cl,vol,vol
In formats 0 and 1, the symbol and date have quotes (")
around them so that you can import them into a
spreadsheet easily.
The following is a sample of the format 0 output in the
PTTASC.PRN file with the 6 fields, Symbol, Date, High,
Low, Close, Volume (in hundreds):
"AAPL","05/24/90",42.250,41.500,42.000,13226
"ABT","05/25/90",73.875,72.500,73.125,2024
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The default name for this file is "PTTASC.PRN". Though
this file can be named anything you want, the rest of
the document will refer to it as PTTASC.PRN.
As shown above in the Overview of PTT Processing, PTT
both creates and reads this Formatted ASCII file. It
creates the file when you are "translating" quotes from
"raw quote" sources to "formatted ASCII". Then, when you
are updating data files, it reads the Formatted ASCII
file.
If you don't specify a RAW QUOTE INPUT FILE in the
Update Parameter menu, PTT will read the FORMATTED ASCII
file. This is a convenient way to avoid the time-
consuming "translation" process if you have to run PTT
against multiple groups of data directories. You must be
sure that the ASCII FORMAT TYPE code is set so that it
correctly describes the format of your file.
If you choose options 6 or 8, the data is assumed to
already be in that format, so there should not be a Raw
Quote Input File specified. Both options 6 and 8 are
'export' formats for either Chartpro or Historical Data
Service (phone 212-752-8660 to contact FFN).
For option 6, FFN/HDS format, you can specify a file
name of the form 'YYMMDD.*' where 'YYMMDD' is the year,
month, and day of the quotes. If you look at this
format, you will notice there is no date in there.
Alternativly, PTT understands the FFN nameing
conventions for stocks, futures and indices.
Prodigy Market Close Information
PTT will make a "best effort" attempt to convert
selected values from the Market Close Screens of
Prodigy.
Unfortunately, some information is missing from these
screens, and you should be aware of that. For example,
the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing price is given,
but there is no figure for the High, the Low, the Open,
or the Volume. So, when PTT converts it, it places the
closing value in all of the price fields with a volume
from the NYSE Regular Volume.
The following is a list of the indexes and market
information pulled out of the Market Close screens:
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TICKER DESCRIPTION
SP-500 SP 500
SP-100 SP 100
DJ-30 DJ INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE
DJUA DJ UTILITY AVERAGE
DJTA DJ TRANSPORTATION AVERAGE
AVOL AMEX VOLUME
NVOL NYSE VOLUME
NYAD NYSE ADVANCING ISSUES
NYDE NYSE DECLINING ISSUES
NYSE NYSE COMPOSITE
SPNU NYSE UP VOL
SPND NYSE DN VOL
NYNH NYSE NEW HIGHS
NYNL NYSE NEW LOWS
NYNHNL NYSE NEW HIGHS - NEW LOWS
AMEX AMEX Market Vol
SPAU AMEX UP VOL
SPAD AMEX DN VOL
AMSH AMEX NEW HIGHS
AMSL AMEX NEW LOWS
AXAD AMEX ADVANCING ISSUES
AXDE AMEX DECLINING ISSUES
XMI AMEX Major Market
XOI AMEX OIL
XII AMEX INSTITUTIONAL INDEX
XCI AMEX COMPUTER INDEX
AMNHNL AMEX NEW HIGHS - NEW LOWS
COMP NASDAQ Comp
INSR Insurance
BANK Banks
FINL Financial
TRAN Transport
XSUV NASDAQ Volume
XSNHNL NASDAQ NEW HIGHS - NEW LOWS
XSUU NASD UP VOL
XSUD NASD DN VOL
XSUH NASD NEW HIGHS
XSUL NASD NEW LOWS
XSUA NASD ADVANCING ISSUES
XSUC NASD DECLINING ISSUES
PRMR Prime rate
TB91 3-mo T-bills
T182 6-mo T-bills
USTB-C 12-mo T-bills
SP-15 10-yr T-notes
SALO 30-yr T-bonds
DJB DJ 20 bonds
DJPU DJ 10 util
DJIL DJ 10 industrials
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The column on the left is the TICKER symbol which will
be used by default when PTT converts the quotes. If you
want to use some other TICKER symbol for one of these
values, you need to create a file called "TICKER.CNF".
Place the new ticker symbol in the file as shown in the
example below.
As an example, suppose you want to have the ticker
"DJIA" for the Dow Jones 30 Industrial Average, and you
also want "SPX.I" for the SP-500 Index. You need to use
an editor to create a file called TICKER.CNF. Place the
following lines in TICKER.CNF (5).
DJ-30 = DJIA
SP-500 = SPX.I
Now, instead of updating the TICKER symbol SP-500, PTT
will update "SPX.I". Similarly, DJIA will be used
instead of DJ-30.
PRODIGY "&" Symbols
As of October 1992, PRODIGY began providing special
symbols (beginning with "&") that include major indices,
currency rates, and volume and issue totals.
With release 1.09 of PTT, PTT will translate the &
symbols as downloaded by ProDownLoad (PDL). These
symbols are generally translated one for one, i.e., a
single symbol generates a single quote, with the
exception of the "Issues Traded" and "Exchange Volume"
symbols for the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ. Each of those
symbols generates 4 quotes, for Total, Advancing,
Declining and Unchanged.
For example, the PRODIGY quote for &AMVL contains the
total volume, advancing volume, declining volume, and
unchanged volume. PTT breaks this quote line into 4
individual symbols, &AMVL, &AMVLA, &AMVLD, and &AMVLU,
respectively. The "Issues Traded" quotes will have the
same suffixes "A", "D", and "U" for Advancing,
Declining and Unchanged.
The PRODIGY.XLT file should be used to translate the "&
symbol" tickers to those found in your historical data
files. For example, the author uses the following:
____________________
5 This procedure can be replaced by using the PRODIGY.XLT translation
file as described on page 8.
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DJ-30= &DJIA
SP-500=&SPX
SP-100=&OEX
AMEX=&XAM
AVOL=&AMVL
XCI=&XCI
DJTA=&DJT
DJUA=&DJU
FINL=&FINL
GOLF=&NYGL
INSR=&NSXI
TRAN=&TRAN
PRMR=&PRM
XII=&XII
XMI=&XMI
XOI=&XOI
COMP=&IXIC
NYSE=&NYCI
VALU=&VLIC
R2000=&RUS2
Other translations can be used for other symbols as
PRODIGY adds them.
Description of PTTSYM files
Raw Quote Conversion Notes
When you first run PTT, it creates a pair of files in
the current directory. They are PTTSYM.IX and PTTSYM.DB.
The .IX file tells PTT, for each symbol, how to find the
data in the .DB file. The .DB file, for each symbol,
has a "summary record" which contains:
1) HI price for the symbol
2) LO price for the symbol
3) the number of quotes in the file
4) an "index" which tells which DATA DIRECTORY this
symbol was found in (from your PTT setup screen),
5) what the offset in the MASTER directory was for the
symbol.
There are three reasons PTT issues the message
"Rescanning for HI and LO ....":
1) It cannot locate the summary record for the symbol.
2) The number of quotes (item 3 above) does not match
the number of quotes in the actual data file. This
is usually caused by manual updating of the symbol,
MetaStock EDIT DATA. If you have added or deleted
data without PTT, PTT rescans to find out what you
have changed.
3) You have set REVERIFY DATA FILES to "YES"
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For the first cause (1), if you go to the directory
where you run PTT and dump the PTTSYM.IX file, it should
contain all the symbols in all the symbols that you
updated from that directory.
Then if you dump the PTTSYM.DB file, it also contains
all the symbols. Each record in PTTSYM.DB is pointed to
by a record in PTTSYM.IX (for the same symbol).
If you have any doubt about the correctness of these two
files, you should delete your PTTSYM.IX and PTTSYM.DB
files and force PTT to recreate them.
For the second cause, that's to be expected.
For the third cause, PTT is only doing what you asked it
to do.
Dow Jones News Service Quotes
Converting DOW JONES HISTORICAL QUOTES (//HQ)
PTT will convert a file containing DOW JONES HISTORICAL
QUOTES and create the intermediate file containing the
formatted ASCII output. DOW JONES HISTORICAL QUOTES are
obtained from Dow Jones News Service database //HQ, by
typing, for APPLE COMPUTER,
//HQ
AAPL P1
You should capture the entire session to a disk file.
Then this file is described to PTT as the "raw" quote
input file. It will be converted and you will then have
historical quote data on the stock.
Converting DOW JONES AVERAGES (//DJA)
PTT will convert the output of the //DJA command for the
INDUSTRIAL average only. This output is obtained by
typing
//DJA
IND P1
The quotes for INDUSTRIAL averages (DJIA) will be
converted to the symbol DJ-30.
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Converting DOW JONES //TRADELINE quotes
PTT will translate the "Pricing History" output of the
//TRADELINE data base as well. This allows you to get
all the major indexes as well as stock price history.
You must turn on capture BEFORE typing in the
//TRADELINE command.
GEnie quotes (Daily and Historical)
GEnie quotes from the GEnie *STAR service are also
translated by PTT. Capture the entire output of the
GEnie quote request, including the line where you enter
the symbol.
Early in 1991, GEnie changed their quote format to
include the ticker symbol in the line with the quote
information. This makes the job of converting the quotes
considerably easier. However, they also chose to leave
off the YEAR in the quote line.
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PTT will not Be sure to apply all the quotes from one year during
handle the that year if your quote source is GEnie Closing Quotes.
crossing
over from Also, GEnie gives back all the classes of a stock when
one year to you ask for an issue. This means, for some utilities,
the next that you can get MANY QUOTES for a single request. PTT
with GEnie doesn't know which one you want, so it converts all of
Closing them. Preferred classes of a stock are indicated by
Quotes adding a period followed by the CLASS to the stock
symbol. For example,
Philadelphia Electric (PE) Preferred Class G will be
"PE.G"
If the Preferred Class is blank, then the symbol
generated by PTT will be the ticker followed by a
period.
PTT will create the common classed stock symbol by
adding the class to the symbol, e.g., WAN Class B
becomes "WANB" for Wang Class B.
Other suffixes, such as WS (Warrant), WI (When Issued)
are also added to the end of the basic symbol to
indicate the different quote type, for example,
MVL.WS for Manville Corp Warrants
Mutual fund symbols will not be terminated with (.X), so
if you ask for FMAGX, the symbol generated by PTT will
indeed be "FMAGX", not "FMAGX.X".
In addition, now that GEnie is providing Mutual Fund
data with only the NAV quote, PTT will place the Net
Asset Value (NAV) in all of the price fields,
(HIGH,LOW,CLOSE,OPEN).
CompuServe Quick and Basic Quotes
PTT will extract CompuServe Quick Quotes (QQUOTE) or
BASICQUOTES if they are in the "standard" format. This
format contains the fields:
Name,
Volume,
Hi/Ask,
Low/Bid,
Last (Close),
Change,
Update (Date)
in the order listed.
You must capture your entire session in QQUOTE starting
from the line which begins:
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Quick QuoteQQUOTE (for QUICK QUOTES)
OR
Basic Quote BASICQUOTE (for BASIC QUOTES)
PTT allows you to enter MULTIPLE symbols at the prompt:
Issue:
See the previous section regarding MULTIPLE quotes per
line (GEnie Quotes) for restrictions on the size of the
line.
CompuServe Information Manager quotes
If you have CIM, PTT will convert CIM quotes obtained
via the QUOTE Service. The CIM quotes must have the line
below Ticker Volume High Low Last Change Update at the
beginning of the list of tickers.
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Additional PTT Usage Notes
One nice feature of PTT is that it can "fix" your DATA
files if they get out of date sequence. It reads the
entire data file, merges in the quotes from Prodigy (or
Dow Jones), sorts them, matching dates up, and then
writes the whole file out in order, dropping any
duplicates. Dates read from the ASCII quote file
supersede those in the data file, so you can make
corrections by changing your ASCII quote for a
particular date.
PTT will allow you to obtain your quotes on weekends or
early Monday morning before the market opens. Even
though the Prodigy header says that the quote is for a
Saturday, for example, PTT is aware that the market
isn't open on Saturdays, so the quote is "fixed up" to
be for the preceding Friday. Even if the quote is
listed on Monday, if it is prior to the market opening,
it will still be fixed up to be a Friday quote.
Also, you can keep gathering print data to the Prodigy
print file for days, weeks or months. PTT doesn't mind.
It can handle up to 21,500 quotes in the Prodigy print
file. No need to keep creating "daily" files.
Personally, I let the quotes and letters, bulletins,
etc. accumulate for a month or so. Then I start a new
file and name the old one something like "upto1209.lst"
and then back that up to a floppy for historical
reasons. You can input that file to PTT again any
time..no problem.
If you decide to start following a stock, fund or bond,
say AAPL, and you haven't added the security to Chartpro
yet; then when PTT comes across a new symbol, it will
automatically add it to the data base for you. Be sure
you have enough room left in your data base, however.
If you have Dow Jones Historical quotes, just specify
the input file containing the quotes as you would the
Prodigy print image file. PTT will pick out the quote
data from any Dow Jones News or other text. If you have
captured DJA (Dow Jones Averages), it is necessary to
modify the text slightly. PTT will change the heading
"INDUSTRIALS"to "STOCK DJ-30" (if you are calling the 30
Industrials by some other symbol name, you should edit
the PTTASC.PRN file to change this name). Also, PTT
adds one zero to the volume figures, because it appears
that Dow Jones lies; they claim the volume is expressed
in 100's, but it is really in 1000's.
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How to create Metastock Format files
PTT can create Metastock format files from scratch. The
PTT package comes with a "seed" file called "MASTER"
which can be copied to any directory to make it a
Metastock directory. When you do that, you can use the
PROMPT FOR MISSING SYMBOLS option to have PTT request
the symbol (company name) for any tickers not already in
the Metastock directory. Once you have either Metastock
format or Chartpro/Megatech format files, you can use
other charting or analysis programs (such as Technical
Analysis Scanner, "TAS") with them.
PTT also creates and updates Chartpro/Megatech format
files. This option is actually easier to use, since
there is no company name associated with the file, nor
is there a limit on the number of files per directory.
PTT will just create (without prompting you for a name)
each ticker's history file as it finds them.
PTT Restrictions
1) No more than 20,000 quotes can be contained in a
single Raw Quote File. If you need to input more
quotes, break the file into pieces and use multiple
file names in the command line.
2) This program will not work beyond the year 1999.
3) No provision is made for holidays when date fixing
is done.
Support for Personal Ticker Tape
How to Get Help
If you have any questions regarding the use of this
program, or you discover any problems, please send me a
message on Prodigy (JBMD65A). I can also be reached on
GEnie -M.MOORE41
PTT BBS Operation
If you would like to check for a newer copy of PTT, or
if you have a problem to report, you can also contact
the FlexSoft Bulletin Board System (BBS) at
510-829-2293.
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SAMPLE PTT SUMMARY REPORT
Personal Ticker Tape (PTT 1.00)
Summary Report for 10/12/90
VOL% PRICE PRICE%
EQUITY NAME HIGH LOW CLOSE VOLUME CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE
AXP 18.875 18.500 18.750 12864 -16% +0.125 +1%
BEV 8.375 7.875 8.375 4797 -19% +0.875 +12%
BMY 79.875 78.250 78.625 11587 +5% -0.625 -1%
BV 11.625 11.500 11.500 3863 -75% +0.000 +0%
CCON 27.250 26.750 26.750 278 -11% -0.250 -1%
CNR 15.250 14.500 14.875 7866 -4% +0.500 +3%
MO 70.750 70.000 70.625 16350 -35% +1.000 +1%
NH
The PTT Summary Report (found in file "PTT.RPT")
contains a summary of the symbol updates for the day. If
the volume exceeds 50% of the average volume, a 'V'
appears in the right column. If the price is a New Low
or New High, the characters "NL" or "NH" are shown in
the far right columns.
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Append to Log File 16
ASCII Format Type 13
ChartPro. 12
Evaluating PTT 11
FFN 24
Formatted ASCII File 13
Free Financial Network 24
Maximum LookBack Period 15, 22
Maximum Number of Ticker Symbols 15
Metastock 12
Notify of Possible Splits 13
Prompt for Missing Symbols 14
Raw Quote Input File 12
Rebuild Symbol Index 15
Reverify Data Files 14
Setup Your Data Directories 11