San files

San files are files on the hard disk which contain the stock data. You can collect data, save the files, and then view and analyze them off line later.

Press the + button (See Adding stocks) while connected to MyTrack or Quote. Enter a stock symbol (e.g., ibm or IBM). It is not case sensitive. The program will verify that the symbol is valid, and then add a record to the table. If NTag is set for anything but 0, the new record will have the tag selected. You will then be prompted for another stock. Cancel when you have entered enough stocks. This merely adds records. You will then have to actually get the data, as shown below.

If you have csi files, and wish to create san files so that MyTrack can collect, then ConvertDta1. This will convert the dta files to a file which can be read only by this application. The extension is san. The program then goes to the site and downloads the latest data, overwriting relevant parts of the dta data. The advantage of dta data is the fact that it extends back earlier in time.

The san files are put into the directory \pivots\Quote\A, for stocks beginning with $ or A, in B for stocks beginning with B, etc.

You may wish to create csv files from the data files so that other programs can read the files. Press Create ascii files. Before you press this, you must have the filter set for Intraday or Daily Filter, so that you see only the daily or intraday files. A directory selector will pop up. Choose the directory where the files are to go to. A subdirectory of this directory will be created. The subdirectory is named Daily or Intraday, depending on the filter you choose. The files are put there.

In addition, there are menu items for adding data from Stock Selector:

ManualAdd1        Manually add stock symbols

ManualSym1        Use a sym file for manual add. This permits you to add thousands of symbols easily.

Createcsv1        Create csv files for Stock Updater. This creates a list from the filtered database which is then imported into Stock Updater, which uses this list to select which stocks to download. Normally this is done just one time.

Loadcsv1        Loads csv files from Stock Updater into san files. This is normally done daily after market close.