I know a little bit about Hemscotts strucure. I don't use QP so I can't help you directly..... of you want to copy the structure directly you need to know if it is saved locally i.e. in AB Workspace etc.
You then have a few choices: - save copy of database & delete what you don't want - copy/paste key files to duplicate database structure without data - export symbol lists manually then reimport to a new database BUT! You can start from scratch and make your own H structure database (it is incredible fun, trust me). It would help if you could be specific about what you want to do. To help you decide: - Hemscott is a UK company - it doesn't make a lot of sense to use H if you are not going to use QP - Hemscott have their own structure (similar to ICB) - it is more fine grained than S&P (most of the sector trading in the US goes on in the S&P ETF's) - H has gained some favour in the US (don't know why they have forgiven the Pommies, for the Boston Tea Party stuff, so easily). - H is used at YahooUSA http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/ind_index.html hunt around there and you can get 5day intraday charts for industries and component lists (html only). - AFAIK there is no way to trade a Hemscott sector/industry (actually there is very little difference in performance between an H sector and an ICB sector anyway ... same old companies). - you can get links to the H structure and H site from the UKB (scroll down to DatabaseManagement>>Hemscott (I posted files at the UKB to help people use for set up the Hstructure ... can't seem to download the XL file but ask Tomasz about it if you want it). - You can subscribe to H site and get filtered lists for the UK but not the US http://www.hemscott.com/companies/company-search.do I prefer use Dow ICB classification (I follow international markets a little) because while it comes second in the USA it is a more universally used classification: - It is very similar to Hemscott. - It is used mainly in Europe/UK. - The DownIdexes site recently improved features and you can get quite good file lists in CSV format from there. - You can trade ICB sectors via futures and ETF's. - Used by YahooUK. - Used by STOXX. http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/sectors/ http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/m9.php http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/m7.php --- In [email protected], "trb0428" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > QuotesPlus has recently added Hemscott structured data to their data > download. > > Their industry monitor index structure is automatically imported and > setup > within the AB database providing sector/industry groupings organized in > a folder > structure. > > Now, with the Hemscott structure available from QuotesPlus, is their a > way > to set up the AB database to directly import this Hemscott structure? > > Is anyone using this? > > Here is the Hemscott structure: > http://www.webcando.com/demos/hemscott_structure.jpg > > Thanks, > Tom >
