If QP has inaccurate data, it is the correct thing to bring it to Gary's and to everyone else's attention. By the way some retail data companies scan their data before sending it on to their customers. 'Nuff said. Lionel Issen
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of investor0329 Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 11:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [quotes-plus] Re: Attn: investor0329 I disagree with you. And QP doesn't carry pink sheet stocks, so I cannot comment on data accuracy regarding those. Did you know that? I care about dividend omissions..doesn't matter if you do or not. I think having data accuracy based on how often a stock is traded, as you suggest, is ridiculous. My research has indicated to me that smaller companies are more profitable than big companies. I rarely buy sp500 companies. Small value stocks are well noted to be the most profitable. And it isn't only small stocks, it is large as well. If you check message number 17240, you will see that msft was one of them. Does msft qualify as a highly traded company to you. In that message I stated that msft had duplicate divvys. I just checked and that has been fixed. And frankly..different people have different methods of analysis. Who are you to judge shat I or others want or should use/do? I have been a long time subscriber of QP. I do not subscribe to their service to look at graphs. I can do that for free at many internet sites. I use them so that I can manipulate and analyze data..and use in Excel, etc. And..if you have, for example, a single datapoint that is 500 points or so away from the mainstream, it completely makes that ticker worthless for computer analysis as it throws everything off...and the reason i post it is because it is irritating to me that there seem to be a growing number of these, when it is so easy to run a scan to find them and clean them up. Whoever supplies the data to QP should be doing this. Apparently they are not. Imagine buying a car where there was no quality control. Regarding you allusion to crooked ceo's/cfo's..I agree. They are sucking money out of American companies and ruining things for small time investors. I think a govt org should be set up solely to track them all down..past and present..get back the $$ they stole, and give them jail time...but that is another matter. This is all i care to say about this issue. Occasionally, i will continue to look for systematic errors and report them as it appears no one else is. When things look fairly clean I will cease. I checked the other day and there were still scores of divvy duplicates and late/missing divvys. Some are small issues..some on very large issues, some are closed end funds, etc. --- In quotes-plus@ <mailto:quotes-plus%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com, "James C. Barone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I happen to agree with Earl. Enough is enough. > > It's not so much that you might find errors, it's the kind of errors you > complain about. I venture to say that extremely few QP subscribers give > a rat's --- about dividend errors on thinly traded issues. Nor do they > care about price errors on obscure pink sheet stocks. > > You need to recognize the difference between precision and accuracy. > Once more, it's hard enough to trust earnings that QP correctly reports > given the myriad of tactics CFO's use even when they follow proper > accounting practices. Investing or trading in stocks, ETF's or whatever > is not an exact science. > > I venture to say the time you spend chasing these errors might better be > spent on more productive work. Like money management, timing of > trades/investments or just a walk in the park for fresh air. > > There is one other alternative you might consider; spend $1,200.00 per > month to obtain data from another source. Maybe then someone there might > give you a direct line to answer your questions/hold your hand. > > IMHO, > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: quotes-plus@ <mailto:quotes-plus%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com [mailto:quotes- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:plus%40yahoogroups.com> com] > On Behalf Of investor0329 > Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 6:04 PM > To: quotes-plus@ <mailto:quotes-plus%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com > Subject: [quotes-plus] Re: Attn: investor0329 > > Perhaps you should check out some of your own posts..like #17215 and > #17337. > > Often times I do send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometimes i get a > response and sometimes not...and when not, the problem is often still > there...so sometimes i do both. How am i to know if their email is > working or not? Gary has already stated that sometimes he doesn't get > the email. > > If my emails bother you, ignore them. > > Others may find them of use and may like to know of the problems > should it affect their own analysis. > > Gary said that some of the data inconsistencies would be fixed by end > of last month. I sent an email just asking if they were (so I could > proceed with some of my own analysis that requires the data be > right)..but never got a response. So I assume he didn't get it. > By the way..i usually sent to both the [EMAIL PROTECTED] email and to > gary specifically. I don't know where the 'data' one goes. > > > --- In quotes-plus@ <mailto:quotes-plus%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com, "EAdamy" <eadamy@> wrote: > > > > Is there anything we could do to induce you to route your incessant > data > > problems directly to quotes-plus support? Or limit your posts to > this NG to > > just one message a day? Or even better to give it a rest for a > month or two? > > The volume of your posts and data complaints goes far beyond a > service ... > > it is a nuisance. > > > > Earl > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
