Patrick I am running BC v 4.33.2
The documentation you are reading is old. The 'country' entry has been moved from the tab tool to the 'Stocks/Options...' menu, as you have correctly discovered. My understanding is that setting the country to 'France' causes BC to add the suffix .PA to the stock code, to build the stock code that gets passed to Yahoo. If I change the country to France (in the 'Stocks/Options...' dialog), and then simply enter CGEP (Alcatel) in the tool tab, BC returns the correct chart, with the code CGEP.PA showing at the top left of the window. Alternatively, you can set the country to USA, which causes no suffix to be added automatically. Then you can add the suffix manually in the 'Symbol' panel, e.g. CGEP.PA This approach also works for me here. With all of the above, I have both the Historical Quote and Portfolio Data Sources set (also via the 'Stocks/Options...' dialog) to Data Source 3. You may need to experiment with the data sources. Now regarding your query about stock picking. BC does NOT have a specialist stock picking facility. The best you can do is set up portfolios of 20 stocks each, and run analyses on each portfolio. It would take 2 portfolios to accommodate the CAC-40, for example. Then if you run 'Portfolios/Analyze 20 stocks (quotes from web)' for each portfolio you will get Bullish/Bearish readings for each stock. As you said, you would need to perform individual AIOs for each stock involved, before running this option. However, if you want to optimize only occasionally, for individual stocks, then see 'NOTE 2' in the section ===== DISCUSSION ON PARAMETER SETTINGS ===== in my post at http://www.stock-anal.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000684.html You might also like to read the paragraph that begins: 'BC's portfolio facility can be very useful ...' in the same post. David --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a newbie with B-C I must first congratulate the author for his > incredible job. This software has many possibilities and is, for > once, very user friendly (very rare in the trader's world). > > Anyway, I have 2 questions : > > - as I live in france I have followed the instructions for my > country. I enter the name of the stock in the specific tab but, it is > written that you also select the country from the tab tool. Maybe am > I blind but in the evalution version the only place where I can > change the country is from the option setup. Did I miss something for > that ? > > It's also weird as if I enter as a country option "france" I can't > have the result of the stock history. Nothing happens and I have to > go back to the "USA" option. > > - I now know the basics of B-C and the optimization process but what > about stock picking ? How are we supposed to choose the stock we want > to buy when on the dow jones of the Frecnh CAC40 indice, for example, > the number of companies is huge. > > Can someone be nice enough to answer that in general, as I perfectly > understand that the number of the stock itself will vary according to > my financial possibilities. My concern is how do do stock picking and > choose stocks whithout having to load and optimize all the stocks > from a country market ? > > I am really happy to be a member of the community and I will for sure > buy the software soon ;-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/GHeqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bestcharts/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
