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[nerdyguy]

Hi...If you like to keep track of stocks all day long, you might want to try out this Stock Market Program. I have divided the stocks into 8 categories (Pharma, Digital, Soda-Tobacco, Finance, Telco, Dept Stores-Food, Oil-Energy-Autos-Shipping-Metal, Entertainment-Other). You can easily change the categories to suit yourself. And you can add/subtract other stocks. Fortunately, there is a Yahoo website that supplies the data. If you want to see all of the data available, go to

http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm

The data is added to the program by using the command urldownloadtofile. The output to the screen is a list of the stocks sorted by a parameter ans (my own quality factor).

ans = (52wk High - Price)/(52wk High - 52wk Low)

If you have a better quality factor, let me know! The list displays the stock name (shortened version) followed by ans(quality factor), Price, 52week low, 52week high, Market Capitalization and Dividend.

If you are looking for my stock market advice, here it is: BUY LOW, SELL HIGH. This program tells you which stocks are unusually low. Your job, should you choose to accept, is to study the stocks at the top of the list. I usually limit myself to stocks with an ans factor above 0.900. After that, I look at the dividend. If it's above 3.5%, then the stock has reached a bottom and it probably won't go lower. Traders will buy it for the dividend. I also tend to limit myself to BIG companies (BIG Market Capitalization). They are probably going to be around when I am ready to SELL. Then look up the stock on Yahoo. Find out what the problem is. Is it a fixable problem or is it a permanent problem? My favorite example is IBM at the end of 1999. Remember the Y2K problem that caused the IBM stock price to drop? That was a fixable problem. Eventually, it went away and the stock price recovered. I made a nice profit at that time. In fact, that's when I first began to really investigate stocks. Note that there is lots of work to be done. You do have to watch the stock frequently (more than once aday) to see how things are going. Don't be greedy. When you have a satisfactory profit, sell and look for another stock to buy. Note that there will be times when no stock has a sufficiently high quality rating to make it a BUY. Find something else to do. Take a rest. Watch TV, etc.

I hope you find this program to be fun and entertaining and profitable. Goo Luck. Nerdyguy

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[SoggyDog]

I think this was a GREAT idea and I like your script a lot.

I made a few minor mods that make it look and feel a little nicer for me.

1. Descriptive Input Screen (for new users)
2. Use MsgBox instead of ToolTip (can be moved, closed, etc)
3. Cleaned up output (tabbed columns; Category appears in Title Bar)
4. Added error handling for incorrect input (<1, >8, NULL, or Alpha)
5. Allowed Input Box to be canceled (script still runs until next Win+s)
6. Kill app with CTRL-Alt-q

Edit : Sept 25
- Error Handling for Divide by Zero
- Removed "\" from output to Fact field (It just bugged me)
- Removed "_" from output to Name field (Same reason)

[Nerd611]

Excellent... Maybe you should be Geekyguy. Thats a promotion from mere nerd to geek!

[nerdyguy]

Hi SoggyDog and Nerd611...Thanks for the compliments. I will test out the proposed changes and see what they do. I hope I have inspired some bright guys out there to look over my program and add some new stock market ideas to the program. My formula for ans is quite simple. But someone out there might find some way to improve upon it.

As far as real investing is concerned, I suggest that a trader remember to employ the STOP-LOSS feature of his personal trading website (Ameritrade, E-Trade, Schwab, etc) to minimize his LOSS in case things go wrong and the stock price falls unexpectedly. The STOP-LOSS feature will automatically SELL the stock at a price you select (below the price you bought it at and below the present price). Caution is always a good idea when it comes to playing the market. Good Luck! Nerdyguy (aka geekyguy)

[SoggyDog]

Error handling needs to be added for instances of Divide by Zero error in this line;

[nerdyguy]

Hi SoggyDog...You are correct. I think CSR was bought by another company and it was removed from the stock market. I also noticed the divide-by-zero today. I put in a statement that said if pri was zero, set pri to 1.0. I suppose you could also ask the program to ignore the stock entirely or tell the user that the stock is gone. Thanks. Nerdyguy

[nerdyguy]

Hi Everyone...You can also look at the output of another stock program on the web and compare the results with the results from my program. The results of other program can found at:

<http://invest.kleinnet.com/bmw1/stats20/index.html>

This program examines the long term (20 years) variation of a stock price and tries to fit the price rise to an exponential function (I think). The variation from that "middle" or "curve fit" line tells you if the price above the "middle" or below the middle. Check it out. This site also contains a list of the stocks with a 20 year history. Have fun. Nerdyguy

[SoggyDog]

I fixed the Divide by Zero error. If the value is zero, then "N/A" is displayed.

Of course, stocks that are no longer trading can simply be removed, but this fix
allows the script to continue running without error and gives the user a clear
picture of which stock(s) caused the problem.

I also used StringReplace to get rid of the "\" in the output to Fact field.
No real reason really... It was just buggin' me.

Further, I removed the "_" from the output to Name field. It bugged me, too.

Updated Code posted Here.
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[nerdyguy]

Hi Everyone...It looks like the NY Times uses the same idea that my Day Trader Stock Program uses. In the NY Times Business Section, the Times lists the S&P 100 Stocks. Next to each stock is the Price, the 52week Low and the 52week High. In between these last two numbers is a dot which tells you where the Price is relative to the High and the Low. If the Price is close to the Low, the dot is at the left. If the Price is close to the High, the dot is at the right. This essentially duplicates what my program does (in numbers). Have fun. Nerdyguy

[Zed Gecko]

Hi, i liked your program much, but we are not interested in the same stocks.
so when i was modifying your script, i started adding some extra features.
This lead to the following script.
It is custumizable, so you can change the Hotkeys and the stocklists to download with a configuration dialog.
It stores the configuration in an .ini-file.
It uses listviews (no presorting cause of this) and
i have made your Indicator more graphic (more like the NY Times
it will look now "!.........." for 1, ".!........." for 0.9 and so on
till "..........!" for 0.

So no need to mess around with the code
to custumize this script anymore

ah, and there is a list of "default stocks" implemented to start with

[userabuser]

I have begun to modify what soggy dog did here. However, as you see, I'd like to ad a column to google(finance) the %nam%

I'd appreciate some thoughts now how to make it clickable.