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- STOCKTRACK
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- Copyright (c) 1984 by Frederick Barthelme
-
- 901 West Pine #17B
- Hattiesburg, MS 39401
-
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-
- There is no documentation for STOCKTRACK. Luckily, operation is
- pretty straightforward. Initial letters of menu items
- appearing on line 25 do more or less what you might expect.
-
- HINTS:
- Run the program from DOS using the BAT file, as the latter sets
- up buffers to help move things along.
-
- When loading a new portfolio (not STOKTRAK.POR), do not use the
- file extension (which must be POR for new portfolios), as it is
- supplied by the pgm. This does not apply, however, when
- loading new data from the NEWDATA selection of the main
- internal menu. This selection uses a file of any name with
- data the user will have gotten from CSERVE, SOURCE, DJ, etc.
- (take a look at STOKTRAK.NEW for file format--TICKER, VOLUME IN
- 100s, PRICE in straight ASCII). In any event, when asked for
- the name of the NEWDATA file, user supplies complete filename.
-
- Little attempt was made to make STOKTRAK crash proof. However,
- I can't recall having locked up the machine with it, so the
- worst that usually happens is being dumped out to BASIC. RUN
- starts you over. Data revisions are lost, and you must reload
- the portfolio from disk.
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- OPENING MENU:
- The first menu looks like this--
-
- Load Save Return Modem ChgDate Basic Quit
-
- This is the only menu from which to LOAD or SAVE a portfolio
- and its data. Subsequent menus after these commands allow you
- to change filenames for altered portfolios. See above.
-
- RETURN allows user to reenter the portfolio and individual
- display sections after having saved a file. Also, to enter the
- main section of the program for building a new portfolio from
- scratch with ADD from internal menu #1.
-
- MODEM dumps you to DOS, the better to connect with your
- communications program (via BATMENU, available on many BBSs).
-
- CHGDATE allows user to change the date in a portfolio's dir
- entry. Format is MONTH <RTN> DAY <RTN> HOUR <RTN> MINUTE
- <RTN>. Also, this is what is expected when the program first
- runs if your date is not 1984 (i.e., if you have not set date).
-
- BASIC dumps to BASIC.
-
- QUIT goes to DOS, after making sure.
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- INTERNAL MENU #1
- Add Chg LPrint Week Individual NewDat XtraStoks Port Select Mkt Files Quit
-
- ADD used a)to develop new portfolio by entering data manually,
- and b) to add stocks to an existing portfolio (manually).
-
- CHG is similar to ADD--used to alter EPS, NUM of SHARES, CUR
- PRICE, etc.
-
- LPRINT prints a version of the main portfolio display.
-
- WEEK sets the current PRICES IN MEMORY as the week-ending
- prices (for use on individual screens and in calc 10week avg).
-
- INDIVIDUAL displays stocks page-by-page with all of info on
- portfolio display, plus additional data and buy/sell
- calculations (rudimentary, I'm afraid).
-
- NEWDAT is for loading new info gleaned from one of the
- databases (CServe, Source, etc). The data MUST be in the
- following format:
- TICKER,VOL-IN-HUNDREDS,PRICE
- For example: ACT,390,34.50
- Other formats crash program.
-
- XTRASTOKS is another way to start portfolios using a word
- processor to develop an ASCII file. Follow the instructions
- and look at STOKTRAK.POR for format.
-
- PORT is the main display key for showing all stocks (one to a
- line) with TICKER, BUY PRICE, CUR PRICE, CHG (from previous
- reading, NOT from BUY PRICE), VOL in hundreds, PRICE SALES
- RATIO, PRICE EARNINGS RATIO, PRICE TO BOOK VALUE, EARNINGS
- YIELD, DIVIDEND YIELD, PERCENT CHANGE (this one's CURRENT vs.
- BUY PRICE), COMMISSION (to buy AND sell, figure based on
- cut-rate broker), BREAK EVEN (BRK=) based on CUR PRICE
- purchase), PERCENT of PORTFOLIO, NET CHG after brokerage.
- After first screen and key EXCEPT "Q" or "q" goes to next set
- of eighteen stocks. Note that the display attributes of
- various items change to represent direction and degree of
- change from last reading (again, not from BUY PRICE). See line
- 25 for slightly arcane explanation.
-
- SELECT allows user to make up individual mini-portfolios by
- cycling through the tickers and punching "S" to include one.
- The DISPLAY command at the sub-menu displays the mini-port and
- returns user to main internal menu.
-
- MKT allows display and updating of market data.
-
- FILES is Files, the BASIC command.
-
- QUIT goes to entry menu to SAVE updated portfolio, or QUIT to
- BASIC or DOS, or LOAD a new portfolio.
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- 9/2/84
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