question for traders of individual stocks

I am a data hound. I now devote about 1/3rd of my personal work time to individual stocks because I enjoy that type of trading, and I have staff to assist my trading and data collection activities.

DecisionPoint.com has quite a lot of individual stock information organized by industry sector. As do other free and pay sites.

I maintain a personal database of fundamental and price-related statistics organized by industry sector for individual stocks. Some of the stock statistics that actually assist my trading decisions do not appear to be readily available at any one pay or free web site. When I am looking for information related to dividend yield by industry sector for example, I know I can quickly find that information at my personal database, with the ex-dividend date, the size of the float and the short ratio data for the stocks in which I am interested...and the comparison of this data within each industry sector can be accomplished efficiently with my database

At the moment, I am reviewing the outcome of my scan result showing those individual stocks whose price is residing within 3% of their 52-week intraday high. One observation is that stocks like BABY, SAP and MPR have again approached proximity to their 52-wk high after backing off during this recent decline push in the overall market. In fact, many stocks now reside on this proximity list that fell off the list recently....and some new ones have appeared.

I rarely take the time to share these types of scan results. And I have been wondering since I personally act as a trader on this information, shall I work on importing this data into a spreadsheet program like Excel or one offered by Open Office ... so that it can be emailed to other traders in a file format that can be downloaded and sorted by statistic column once received by other traders. I would want compensation for providing this information as a data assembler and provider. So, it would be a subscription service which is not my thing...am wondering about it because I already collect the data and use it myself.

here is a link to where I posted a partial scan result of this type of data, closing basis Thursday. Do you know any free or paid service that offers this type of information in a format that is readily and efficiently actionable by you as a trader? I realize some folks use Decisionpoint.com for price-related scans by industry sector.

http://www.websiteto...post?id=2981333

I have numerous other columns of price and/or fundy info. that I collect and then choose whether to include in the scan result...and these other data elements are not shown in the posted info. for Thursday at this link.

any comments you have are welcome. I am tempted to simply drop this idea, but it has been on my mind for a few years. Why have data that I find most useful to me, and not attempt to share it with those who are interested?

When I posted this data at the website shown above, the posting process required about 2 hours because the size that can be posted in any individual post page is finite, so it required 37 separate post transactions to accomplish a mere partial data set sharing with the public. Clearly, communicating this information to other traders with a downloaded spreadsheet file would be much more time efficient for me...and more useful and sortable on the receiving end.

Edited by hiker, 21 September 2008 - 05:16 AM.

I have no idea how that info could be useful. So therefore I vote nay.

I have no idea how that info could be useful. So therefore I vote nay.

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can you tell me within 1 minute of research, which stocks within the NDX are faring best and which worst year-to-date?

this may help decide which NDX stocks are best longs and which are best shorts. And it may help understand the current trend of QQQQ.

how about which NDX stocks are green year-to-date? how long will it take you to locate that information and understand how to use it to your advantage going forward?

Edited by hiker, 21 September 2008 - 07:47 AM.

I have no idea how that info could be useful. So therefore I vote nay.

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can you tell me within 1 minute of research, which stocks within the NDX are faring best and which worst year-to-date?

this may help decide which NDX stocks are best longs and which are best shorts. And it may help understand the current trend of QQQQ.

how about which NDX stocks are green year-to-date? how long will it take you to locate that information and understand how to use it to your advantage going forward?

To just name a couple:

http://www.telechart.com/
https://www.tradesta..._0840_beta.aspx

This is a lucrative industry with big players having hundreds of employees and thousands of customers. Are you a trader or a data vendor?

I have no idea how that info could be useful. So therefore I vote nay.

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can you tell me within 1 minute of research, which stocks within the NDX are faring best and which worst year-to-date?

this may help decide which NDX stocks are best longs and which are best shorts. And it may help understand the current trend of QQQQ.

how about which NDX stocks are green year-to-date? how long will it take you to locate that information and understand how to use it to your advantage going forward?

I can, its CEPH took me 30 sec actually. Believe or not, I use Yahoo Portfolio have all 100 loaded then customize the columns they have over 75+ data points. Dump it into excel then sort by your criteria. I tried to upload the excel file but got an error that said I can upload excel files.........


Basics :
� Symbol
� Name
� Last Trade (With Time)
� Last Trade (Price Only)
� Change & Percent
� Change
� Volume
� Average Daily Volume
� More Info
� Trade Links

Details:
� Bid
� Bid Size
� Ask
� Ask Size
� Last Trade Size
� Ticker Trend
� Float Shares
� Previous Close
� Open
� Day's Range
� 52-week Range
� Change From 52-wk Low
� Pct. Chg. From 52-wk Low
� Change From 52-wk High
� Pct. Chg. From 52-wk High
� Short Ratio

Pre/After Market:
� Last Trade with Time (Pre/After Market)
· After Hours Change & Percent
· Pre Market Change & Percent



Fundamentals :
� Earnings/Share
� P/E Ratio
� Dividend Pay Date
� Ex-Dividend Date
� Dividend/Share
� Dividend Yield
� Market Capitalization
� Book Value
� Price/Book
� Price/Sales
� EBITDA

Moving Averages:
� 50-day Moving Average
� Change From 50-day Moving Average
� Pct Chg. From 50-day Moving Average
� 200-day Moving Average
� Change From 200-day Moving Average
� Pct Chg. From 200-day Moving Average

Estimates:
� 1-Yr Target Price
� EPS Est. Current Year
� EPS Next Year
� EPS Next Quarter
� Price/EPS Current Year
� Price/EPS Next Year
� PEG Ratio

Portfolios:
� Shares Owned
� Price Paid
� Commission
� Holdings Value
� Day's Value Change
� Holdings Gain & Percent
� Holdings Gain
� Trade Date
� Annualized Gain
� High Limit
� Low Limit
� Notes

Edited by hedgehawk, 21 September 2008 - 10:06 AM.

This is a lucrative industry with big players having hundreds of employees and thousands of customers. Are you a trader or a data vendor? [/quote] ------ I have participated at this traders-talk site since 2001/2002 and the record of over 10,000 posts in that time reveal clearly that I am a trader. I realize you are new here and understand that you need to ask. thanks for the data sources of which you are aware. clearly I have not revealed the extent of my database or all of its functionality and data elements because it is not possible to post it in a blog format. it is currently customized to support my trading decisions, and the ease of use for my needs is what I find most helpful. thanks again and have a good weekend. I am headed out for most of the rest of the day. Good trading next week.

hedgehawk - your reply confirms what causes me to hesitate to do anything more than keep my years of work for my own benefit on this database by sector to myself. ie: those who want information to assist their trading decisions either create it themselves, or pay for it from an existing vendor. ease of use is always a relative criteria depending on the trader's specific needs for information. thanks for the reply. Thursday's scan of my database by sector, revealed that USB, PBCT, GBCI etc would likely run to new 52-wk highs again on Friday with the markets' desire for combining yield with safety following this week's run to short-term treasuries which are now providing such low yields.

Edited by hiker, 21 September 2008 - 10:31 AM.

Why not just focus on ultra long/shot etfs and covered call/puts and simplify trading system?







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>>Are you a trader or a data vendor? That is a question for you to ask yourself. Just trying to help you think through this, given that the wheel has already been invented. Have a good weekend.