Investor952:
There are at least 2 reasons that there are fewer issues in QP. 1. Gary removed the inactive/dead listings from the database. 2. As you pointed out many issues are now OTC or have gone belly up. Lionel From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of investor952 Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 9:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [quotes-plus] Gary... some concerns regarding data availability as affected this market I would think that due to the current extended market malaise, that many stocks that have been listed on the Amex, NYSE, Nasdaq have been dropped to the OTC since their price has fallen so much. I can think of several that I used to track and unfortunately own...like tma and uss. Is there any chance that QP can include the OTC market as well. If not, ongoing data analysis will be a problem. Heck, even Citi appears to be in danger of being dropped...it is now a penny stock. There appear to be much fewer issues now in QP than 10 years ago probably because of mergers and issues being lowered into the OTC. Any thoughts on this, anyone? I could see the point of excluding the OTC when the Dow was normal..but it ain't normal any more. In fact, there are several issues in the Dow that, by definition, shouldn't be there anymore.
