Joe- Thank you, thank you, thank you! I looked through the SPP manual, but obviously not hard enough. In the reading I've done on this issue, I wonder if it's as much what the .dll offers as what QP3 allows to be taken. If I understand it correctly, we might have to lobby QP3 to make the fields we need available.
On the EPS and Sales arrays, I'm not much of a programmer, but I wonder if there's a way to run a For..Do loop that runs through the array and finds where it changes, pick that date, calculate how many days since then, and plugs that number into the Ref() function? Cato --- In [email protected], "Joe Landry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello there - Guess we have some common interest. CANSLIM first. > > I'm assuming you have Stock Picker Pro installed with your QP3? It comes with the QP3 CD for no additional charge. > SPP has dozens of filters, one of which is called CANSLIM. > I've attached a screen shot and you'll see that at least 2 of the data fields needed are not exposed by the AB plugin that Tomasz has > provided us, like CQIE and CYIE. A couple of options 1) if important enough maybe we could talk Tomasz into adding > those 2 extra fields in the plug in, or 2) ask someone who has the skills with the AB SDK could take the plug in > and extend it for those 2 fields. I've never fired up the SDK myself and not sure I have all the elements in my development desktop > to do this. I run the CANSLIM filter on QP3 and get somewheres around 175-200 good stocks every day that form a small universe of > stocks with good fundamentals and price change momentum. > > 3) EPS is an array and if you plot it you'll see it changes every quarter. So by either running an explore or a plot you can > see if Ref(EPSarray,-66) works or not. I'd take it outside the reference function just to be conservative like > EPSArray = GetExtradata("EPS"); > > 1) and 2) Lots of good documentation in SPP, like the following that should remove any doubt in your mind as to what the fields are. > > We had a 'birds of a feather' meeting at the Amibroker Conference in Houston and there were about 12 QP3 users there. I have a distribution > list that I'm adding your name to and if you don't want to be copied on some of our mailings please let me know and I'll take you off it. > Dan Clark is very active and has been providing information for the forum, to our group and feed back to the owner of Quotes Plus, hopefully to some avail. > > Hope this helps. > Joe > > % 5Yr EPS Gr > Description: 5 Year Earnings Per Share Growth > The percentage change in current fiscal year earnings compared to five years ago fiscal year earnings. > Source: Quotes Plus > Filter category: Fund Earnings - % EPS > > CYIE > Description: Continuous Yearly Improvement in Earnings Per Share > The objective is to find securities with year after year of continuous EPS growth for the past 3 years. The year is based on a trailing twelve month (TTM) basis. The yearly difference between the most recent EPS quarter and the same quarter a year ago is computed. This backwards computation is done to arrive at 4 yearly EPS values. If the difference for most recent yearly EPS value is greater than the previous year (not equal) we add one to the count. This type of backwards comparison goes on until one of two events occur: > > 1.. All 3 yearly time periods have been processed or > > 2.. The security fails with a yearly comparison that doesn't increase, the process will stop and the count is recorded > > The process results in a number from 0 - 3. A security with consecutive upward yearly progress will get a value of 3 (3 years of steady upward > > % 1Yr EPS Gr (TTM) > Description: 1 Year Earning Per Share Growth (trailing 4 quarters) > The percentage change using the sum of the last 4 quarters of EPS compared to the sum of the prior 4 quarters of EPS. This is a current 4 quarter over the previous 4 quarters EPS comparison as opposed to the data fields: > > a.. % EPS Chg which is comparing the current quarters EPS to the same quarter a year ago. > > b.. % 1Yr EPS Gr which is comparing the current fiscal year EPS to the prior fiscal year EPS. > > Source: Computed > Filter category: Fund Earnings - % EPS > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: fatboycato > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 12:51 AM > Subject: [amibroker] GetExtraData > > > I have a few questions about the fundamental data coming out of QP3 > that I hoped someone here could answer: > > I'm pretty sure that sales and sharesfloat are reported in millions > (e.g. "1.2" means 1,200,000), and sharesshort are reported in > thousands (e.g. "1,200" means 1,200,000), but I don't know about > some of the others. > > 1) TTMSales? I can't think of any way to make this a real number. > 2) TTMEPS? It looks like it could just be normal, but I'd like to > make sure. > 3) Earnings growth numbers (Y1, Y5, and projections)? One would > expect percentage (e.g. "12" = 12%), is this the case? > > One final question: Since "EPS" is an array, does that mean I can > get historical EPS by using Ref(GetExtraData("EPS"),-#)? If so, I've > tried that and it didn't seem to work. Is there another way to do it? > > I'm trying to set up some sort of CANSLIM type of exploration. 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