TigerSoft Support:
Changes in TigerSoft
7/15/2008
Dowloading Data from Dial Data using Peercomm
(1) Self- Editing.
(2) A New Peercomm to Download.
Open EXTRA.exe
to place
PEERCOMM.exe
in c:\peercomm
See notes below.
(3) *DJI Will Get Trading
Highs and Lows.
(4) Tiger Data Service is an Alternative/Backup.
(5) Tiger Computations
of Theoretical Highs and Lows
last updated 7/15/2008
william_schmidt@hotmail.com
5/29/08
If you want to get STOCK data earlies than 8:00 PM from Dial Data. Save PEERCOMS.exe
into c:\peercomm and then from that directory run PEERCOMS.exe This uses the *DJI symbol for
relative strength purposes and is available sooner. Later in the day, Dial Data updates *DWI X
and the PEERCOMM.exe should work. We'll see tonight if I'm right. EPEERCOM,exe also
works early in the day. But does not get the index data properly.
7/15/2008 Save EPEERCOM.exe into c:\peercomm and create an
icon for it and put the icon on your desk top
or use the command Run c:\peercomm\EPEERCOM.exe"
This will let you get stock data right after the market closes
(1) SELF-EDITING BAD DATA SENT FROM DIAL DATA.
The retrieval program fix here works if Dial Data provides the data correctly.
But I noticed that they provide data for the DJI for 5/27/08, 2/18/08 and 3/21/08
when there was no trading. This produces an inconsistent count of the number
of days of data for the DJI and stocks, etc. and causes the Peercomm program
not to want to accept the data. When you get such an error message -
inconsistent number of records for DJI and NYSE..., there is a way to fix
this problem now, before I can figure a solution.. Here are the steps to fix it.
1.) Go to Peercomm
2.) From the top pull down the menu Tiger Stocks
3.) Click Tools and Edit Last Tiger Retrieval.
4) Click OK
This shows you all the lines of your retrieval. Use the vertical scroll bar
and find *DJI on the extreme left with the date for a holiday when there
was no trading, but Dial Data has started to insert a line for.
Then look for a row with a "0," after the sixth comma.
If the values after the second comma, third comma, fourth comma and fifth
comma are all the same, delete the line by highlighting it and using the delete
command with the right mouse key.
The bad line of be deleted will look something like this:
*DJI ,080321 ,12361.320 ,12361.320 ,12361.320, 12361.320, 0, 0,
or
*DJI ,080218, 12348.210, 12348.210, 12348.210, 12348.210, 0, 0
Be sure to eliminate the space between the lines (daily records)
Then from the File sub-menu at the upper left.click Save
Next click X
Answer Yes to the Question "Do you want to update your stocks using this edited retrieval?"
Be sure Tiger Data is highlighted.
Click Append New Data.
This will get you past a bad line of data.
(2) A New Peercomm to Download.
5/20/2008 Download EXTRA.exe and execute it to place a new PEERCOMM
Dial Data retrieval program in your computer. Be sure to close
the existing peercomm.exe program in your computer before opening
EXTRA.exe.
They assure me that they are now providing the correct theoretical highs.
"Please be advised that back on May 8th Dial Data has made available "Actual Value" Dow Jones symbols for those who may be interested, these symbols are listed below and should not be confused with the symbols you are normally accustomed to downloading.
Original Symbols Theoretical Values |
Additional Symbols Actual Values |
|
| Dow Jones Industrial | *DWI X |
*DJI |
| Dow Jones Transportation | *DWT X |
*DJTR |
| Dow Jones Composite | *DWC X |
*DJC |
| Dow Jones Utilities | *DWU X |
*DJU.X |
We will continue to make available both
"Actual Value" and "Theoretical Value" symbols to our Dial Data
Subscribers., We apologize for the inconvenience and if you have any questions about your
account or the availability of our data, please feel free to call a Dial Data
Representative at (212) 612-2150 or (800) 935-7788. Customer Support Representatives
are available from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, any day that U.S. financial
markets are open.
(3) *DJI will get the DJI's Trading Highs & Lows.
5/29/2008 Save PEERCOMS.exe into your computer in C:\PEERCOMM
. This version uses *.DJI and allows you to get stock data earlier in the day
because *DJI is available when stocks are. The hypothetical highs and
lows are not available until much later in the afternoon.
DO NOT USE PEERCOMS FOR INDEX retrievals. Doing so will get
the trading highs and lows, which Peerless does not use. Use the regular
Peercomm program for that.
You can now add *DJI as a stock symbol and treat the DJIA as a stock.
Here is the current chart. There is no valid opening price, so the Opening and
Closing Lines do not appear. Neither will relative strength lines versus the DJI.
4) Tiger Data Service is an Alternative/Backup.
Tiger Data Page Order Form. The Tiger Data page ($150/year) now includes:
NIGHTLY DATA
1. Peerless
Index Data will be saved into c:\peerless
DJI data added back to 1965-1966 , including "DATA0607"
To see 1987 enter "DATA87" or DATA8687" The theoretical
high and low are correctly provided, as well as *DJI's trading highs and
lows.
2. Data.exe: 415 Stocks, Indices, Currencies & Commodities
to be saved into c:\stocks As the trading
volume has risen, the space needed
increases. Sometimes it passes the maximum, as it did tonight. I have
reduced
the number of stocks and it should now work. Sorry for the inconvenience.
3. NASD-100 STKS.- To be saved into c:\nasd-100
List of NASDAQ-100
stocks and other information.
4.. FIDELITY -To be saved into c:\fidelity
Use these to see which industries are strongest and weakest.
5.
These are the stocks used well for years with our Tiger "Tahiti Approach", buying
at the end of each quarter the highest AI/200 stock and holding it for 21 month.
So that you can quickly compare a DJI-30 stocks with the DIA, SPY, QQQQ and
MDY, we have added those symbols to this download. CHV and BAC have replaced
MO and HON.
6. ETFS - To be saved into c:\etfs
These are foreign country funds.
7. GOLD - STKS.- To be saved into c:\gold
8. BIOTECH To be saved into c:\biotech
9. HOTSTKS (450) To be saved into c:\Hotstks
Stocks that reecently made new highs.
10. FTSE To be saved into c:\ftse Includes 1/21/08 for stocks traded in London.
11. FIDSTKS (400) To be saved into c:\fidstks
It is based on the top ten holdings for each Fidelity fund as posted by www.yahoo.com
12. OILSTKS To be saved into c:\oilstks
13. NEWLOWS.exe (470) To be saved into c:\newlows
14. HOMEBLDG(33) To be saved into c:\homebldg
15. OPTIONS (233) To be saved into c:\options
16. 410 Low Priced Stocks - To be saved into c:\lowprice
These are stocks under $4.00 a share unless they have recently taken off.
17. FINANCE To be saved into c:\finance:
162 brokerage, bank and mortgage stocks.
18. INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS (INDMATER.exe) To be saved into c:\indmater
Aluminum, coal, steel, zinc, copper producers ....
19. SECTORS - To be saved into c:\sectors
These are non-foreign ETFS. They are useful for seeing which sectors are performing well
and show high accumulation.
20. CHINA To be saved into c:\china These are Chinese stocks and closed end funds.
21. GREEN To be saved into c:\green These are "green" stocks. Renewable energy.
22 COMODITIES To be saved into c:\comodity These are perpetual futures' commodity
contracts foods, fuels, cotton, metals, currencies, bonds and SP-500.
23. FUNDS To be saved into c:\funds 2/4/2008
these are mutual funds. Because they have no volume and no high and low, you will not be
able to run the normal nightly analysis for ranking and flagging program. Instead use
Peercomm + Chart + Ranking Results + User Set Ranking + 21 (or whatever length you like)
+1 Send me - william_schmidt@hotmail.com the funds you want to add here. Use a 21-day,
65-day ranking. The automatic signals under Signals2 work well. Look at the price patterns here,
as well as relative strength indicators.
24. CHEM To be saved into c:\chem These are specialty chemicals, including those used for
fertilizer.
25. TRANSP To be saved into c:\transp These are transportation and shipping stocks:
railroads, trucking, airlines, shipping, cargo transportation. A few more will be added.
26 UTILITY To be saved in c:\utility Electircal utilities.
27. BONUS Stocks - To be saved into c:\bonus
These are stocks you have asked us to add...
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(5) Tiger Computations of Theoretical Highs and Lows
5/20/2008 It still appears that the theoretical high and
low for the DJI are not the same we can compute using
the following technique. Perhaps, the difference owes to
slight differences in the "quotient". The percentage differences
are small.
Tiger Calculation of theoretical high and low.
1) Add up the closings of the 30 DJI stocks. Call it
"sumofcloses".
2) Divide the sumofclose by the DJIA's reported closing price.
Call this "quotient".
3) Add up the sum of highs of each of the 30 DJI stocks
and divide this by "quotient". This is the estimated
theoretical high.
4.) Add up the sum of lows of each of the 30 DJI stocks
and divide this by "quotient". This is the estimated
theoretical low.
5.) Replace the reported trading high with the estimated
theoretical high.
6.) Replace the reported trading low with the estimated
theoretical low.