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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or Ron at [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[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. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
