General Scan Info

This section of scans is meant to be a resource for Quotes Plus users. It also demonstrates the power and flexabilty of the Quotes Plus software. If you end up purchasing Quotes Plus, throw me a bone, please tell them I sent you...It helps pay for the web site.

Rather than wait until I have an entire section completed, I have decided to begin by posting the new format with just my original set of scans in place. You will therefore, see other scans listed in the menu, but as of yet, their links are not active, or the scan file itself may not be posted. This approach does a couple of things. It allows me to more quickly trouble shoot problems as I increase the number of scans posted, and it also provides you, the user, a glimpse down the road as to what scans I am working on posting. If you see a scan on the menu, but it is not yet posted, e-mail me, and I will bump it up on the priority list.

Some of these scans I have written myself. Some have been written by others and have either been downloaded or sent to me. Other scans I have written based on the approaches of popular traders like Linda Bradford Raschke, Tom Landry , Jeff Cooper, etc. I have attempted to give credit in each case where the work is not entirely my own. I have also attempted to provide a web link to any individuals that have a web site if you wish to find out more about them or their methodology. In some cases, I have also added some of my own filters or formatted the output to better meet my needs. (The scan output contains more than just the list of symbols that met the scan criteria)

I have also tested each one of these scans on my own computer, so I know they will run. I am currently using Quotes Plus Release 2.3, Build 3,0,0,0.

Comments and questions are always welcomed. If you find any new links not working, please let me know.

The following information is provided to help you more easily use the QP2 Scans section of my web site, and provide a few hints when writing scans.

Down Loading scans and files from this web site:

• To download scans, right click on the "Download XYZ.EXP" highlighted text next to the yellow UnRuly Dog paw print,then select "Save As", or "Save Target As", depending on your browser.

• Once you have the scan file on your hard drive and you know where it is located, import it into your scan files using the QP2 scan selection "Scan Data base/ Select Reports-Scans/ Import".

Copy/Paste Scan Code into a Scan

• You can also copy and paste the text of the scan into an open scan.

• If you use this method, ensure you eliminate any spaces or line breaks in the "println" statements as they appear on the web page. Several scans have very long "println" lines, and to keep them within view on the web page, I have broken these down into two or more lines.

Files

• Some scans may have an "input" file that provides the list of stocks that the scan is run on. These files are available so that you do not have to create the file yourself. If you would like to run the same scan on a different group of stocks or indexes, I recommend that you create the input file yourself, in addition to changing the saved name of the scan, the input file name, and the output file name.

• If you do not specify an input file, the scan will be run on the entire data base of securities and indexes, unless you have further limited the field to be scanned by using one of the filters like "exchange=nyse,amex" line, or one of the other filters.

Errors

• One of the more common errors I run into when running a scan I have written is the "Cannot divide by zero" error. This usually occurs when I try to divide one of the data base fields by another, and the denominator field is zero. Often time this may just be a bad one time data element in the data base, or, it could be because the value is in fact zero. Let's say you wanted to compute your own P/E ratios based on today's closing price and the current quarter's earning estimate. If you had a line in your scan that said in part,

  Close (0)/currqtrest

  you would get an error if any of the stocks in your scan had a current quarter earnings estimate of zero. One way around this error is to insert a line in your scan prior to the division statement that eliminates any securities with a zero current quarter earnings estimate.

  currqtrest>0 and;