hgsgeorge
Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:23:25 -0800
Announcing the newest release of Stock Picker Pro for Quotes Plus. It
was made available to all SPP customers on Dec 12, 2006. This is the 6th
release containg new features and improvements since SPP was introduced
in June 2004. Quotes Plus customers interested in adding Stock Picker
Pro to their subscription should contact Quotes Plus sales at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or (800) 627-9637.
NEW - QP3 Beta Charting Option. Added a new menu item on the Warehouse
under the tools menu that lets the user choose between original QP
Charting and QP3 Beta Charting. The default is the original QP Charting.
(Contact Quotes Plus support if you have any trouble
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NEW Group Database Reference Groups: ETF Groups
1. All ETF securities are now consolidated into one Industry
Monitor's Industry Group.
* Fin-ETFs All
2. ETFs have also been classified into 5 major Sectors and 29 investment
categories. These sectors and categories follow the Morningstar
structure making it easy to cross reference ETFs for more detailed
information.
Blends
Large Blend
Mid-cap Blend
Small Blend
Growth
Large Growth
Mid-cap Growth
Small Growth
International
Diversified Emerging
Diversified Pacific-Asia
Europe Stock
Foreign Large Blend
Foreign Large Growth
Foreign Large Value
Foreign Small Midvalue
Japan Stock
Latin America Stock
Pacific-Asia (ex Japan)
World Bond (currency)
World Stock
Sectors
Communications
Financial
Health
Natural Res
Precious Metals
Real Estate
Technology
Utilities
Value
Large Value
Mid-Cap Value
Small Value
NEW Group Database Reference Group: Exchange Indexes
This group contains the SPP generated indexes for:
* ALL NYSE * ALL NASDAQ * ALL AMEX * ALL Securities indexes
NOTE: All SPP generated indexes contain volume, unlike many market
indexes
NEW Group Database Reference Group: Sectors by Stock. This new
group shows all of the component stocks within each of the 12 sectors.
To get this information in the past you would have to make a User Group
and collect all the securities from within the various industries that
make up a sector. This new group compliments the previous Sectors by
Industry group.
NEW - Warehouse and Filter: Bollinger Band Fields
* %B 1-Dy Chg * Bollinger %B * Bollinger Bandwidth
Note: These Warehouse, Filter and Charting fields are used by Ian
Woodward and Ron Brown to show the ebb and flow of the Major Market
Indexes using the Visual Filter Back Test (VFB) (HGSI Charting). For
examples of its usage contact Ian at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or Ron at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . The following was provided by Ian
Woodward.
Introduction of a Unique HGSI Filter Function:
We are well aware that "Volatility" plays a very important part in the
fortunes made and lost in the stock market. %B provides a vehicle for
measuring Volatility.
We recently studied the Bollinger Band relationships between %B and
Bandwidth leading to the W&B Bull's-eye Indicator. This enhanced
the Ready, Set, Go criteria (featured in the August 2006 HGS Investor
Newsletter) for selecting candidate stocks to buy and sell, and enabled
further indicators to evolve.
Intense evaluation around the recent precipitous fall since May 11, 2006
for two months across all markets showed that it is accompanied by an
equally large 1 Day drop in %B (over 0.40), thereby demonstrating large
Volatility.
The provision of a new unique filter factor allowing "%B 1-Dy Chg" to be
inserted in filters and views has helped to capture the ebb and flow of
the Major Market Indexes in "picture form" using the Visual Filter Back
Test (VFB) feature. They work best with large Indexes, but can also
provide useful information for Sectors, Industry Groups and even stocks.
It is used for both up and down swings in Volatility.
NEW - Warehouse and Filter: 20 DMA fields
* % Index Above 20DMA * 20 DMA * 20 DMA 1-Dy % Ch * 20 DMA
Slope * % Cl/20 DMA
NEW - Save As HTML in the Warehouse. There is a new Save As HTML option
under the File menu that saves the Warehouse view as a "friendly" HTML
file (similar to the Designer GPA report). Drag and drop the saved
Warehouse HTML file onto an Excel spread sheet or into Access for
further analysis or report. Color coding of various fields is preserved
so you will have an exact replica of the Warehouse view.
NEW - Global Security Search. ALT-Space in any of the windows brings up
a search box by first jumping to the All Securities folder and removing
any filter applied. You can right mouse click and use Back to return to
the group you were in.
NEW - News/Private Message announcement system. This is a customer
service communication improvement feature that allows Industry Monitors
to send important messages directly to users of the software when they
do a nightly update. The messages are sent via web pages that open in
the user's browser.
IMPROVED - Export/Import of Warehouse Views, Warehouse Combos and
Filters.
On all the import and export dialogs we now use the standard file names
and extensions show below to make it easier to identify which file is to
be imported to which HGS tool. E.g. when you have combos to be imported
the file name "Warehouse Combo.cmb" will be visible when you navigate to
the location where the file was downloaded/exported to on your computer.
* Warehouse Views.whs * Warehouse Combos.cmb * Filters.flt
IMPROVED - Group Performance Analysis Report
* Remembers if the "Exclude Indexes" option was selected the next
time the GPA is started. * Defaults GPA options to "Round all share
counts to whole integers" and "Compare vs. S&P500 * If a filter was on
when running GPA and that filter excluded the S&P500 it would negate the
"Compare vs. S&P500" option. This option now works as expected. * GPA
Short percentages now correctly computed
See Investopedia
<http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/maxreturnshortsale.asp> for
algorithim
IMPROVED Error messages for Quote Tracker.
Added error box when using | or comma (,) when making a Quote Tracker
portfolio with the Add To Quote Tracker features.
IMPROVED - Usability:
* HGSI filters out the symbol INDEX if it appears in the Quotes Plus
database. The symbol INDEX is reserved for internal use of HGSI. It is
the symbol assigned to all indexes generated by HGSI * The sort caret
in the Warehouse and Designer now will color match your windows
settings. * The group property page in the Designer no longer has an
apply or context help button. * Improved the scrolling for the dialog
boxes in Warehouse "Choose/Create Combo Ranking" when there are long
lists. * View drop down in the Warehouse is much wider.
CHANGED - A/D Letter Rank now no longer sorts/ranks in raw A/D rank
order to work correctly with SA. If users wish the numerical ranking
order they will need to sort on the numerical A/D ranking and should use
it in any combo rankings as well.
CHANGED Group Database Reference Group. The Sectors group has
been renamed to Sectors by Industry to compliment the new Sectors by
Stocks.
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