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prybansky1
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Hello. I tied to download some screens this morning to excel and after a few downloads I could only download excel spreadsheet with no data and statement that "Maximum number of report downloads per day exceeded". I am doing this every morning and this is the first time this happened. Is this some kind of error or a new policy for managing downloads into excel? Thanks. p. |
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marco
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We are negotiating a new data contract and the download is a sticky point. We decided to add this policy in advance to understand the reasons for downloads. Let us know why you need the downloads. Is there a functionality missing? We can easily add functionality to do the analysis within P123. Thanks ---------------------------------------- Portfolio123 Staff |
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dss
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Hi Marco This is going to adversely affect me as well. Could you provide some clarity on what the actual limits for downloading are? Essentially, I have an offline market-timing engine written in python, that utilises data pulled down from screens. Being able to explore the data in an interactive session with proper statistical methods, graphing tools etc, is a huge boon. Unless you're going to provide a full, extensible interactive scripting language in P123, its not really functionality that can be 'added in'. In an ideal world I'd have a complete local copy of the P123 database that gets daily or weekly sync updates. I'm assuming this is just the sort of thing your data provider doesn't want happening, but I'm wondering what sort of compromises are going to be available - is there some level of downloadability you're pushing for in the new contract? Could greater access to data be incorporated into the pricing tier somehow? ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by dss at Apr 25, 2012 10:18:28 AM] |
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prybansky1
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Hi Marco, I am using Excel for my quick stock check while I trade. I use real time data from 2 other sources in Excel (price and fundamentals) and in additions yst rankings of stocks (ranked by several ranking systems and each ranking downloaded from p123 to a separate sheet). When I select my watch list during day I quickly rank selected stocks based on different criteria. It is very important for me to download data to excel as excel integrates further real time data from other sources along with rankings from p123. In addition there is a period from time to time that I download data from screener's backtest where I screen for certain type of conditions. Then I use no. of stocks that pass the screen each day for my further analysis in excel or in other systems (Amibroker). Seeing how many of stocks met certain criteria I can build market breadth market timing models. But this is not regular (these downloads I make when I have a need to have a deep look at market timing). Rankings of stocks I download I mentioned I download each day, it is part of daily routine. p. |
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dwpeters
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What is the maximum? I download screen results to excel and combine with other price data to create watch lists, calculate orders, and track pricing in real time. I often download sim trade results to do further analysis (such as estimate results with limit orders). I also download performance results for multiple sims to combine them in Excel to see how they are correlated and how they perform as part of a portfolio. P123 may be able to do some of this (limit orders, combine sims) but cannot replicate the limitless custom functionality available in excel. The download is a key feature. Don |
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marco
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Looks like most people don't need data columns. We will be able to provide a fixed set of 50 data columns, like the ones in the pre-formatted reports. I'll relax the download restriction now. In the next release downloads after a certain TBD limit will only show few columns, like ticker,name,ranks, and few others. Thank you for your patience dss: are the pre-set reports good enough for you? ---------------------------------------- Portfolio123 Staff |
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dss
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Thanks for the clarification Marco - The pre-sets provide a reasonable set of data, although they are a bit selective - showing growth rates for sales and EPS, for example, but not showing any balance or income sheet information. As I said, in an ideal world, we'd retain access to everything, but I understand that won't be the case :) One thing I'd really like to retain access to is the stock ID (rather than just the ticker symbol). It really helps keep things aligned, disambiguating new listings/tickerchanges etc. Lastly, is there an approximate date for when the 'next release' restrictions will come into effect? -David |
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marco
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dss, probably this weekend. Unfortunately stockid also needs to be disabled (return NA). ---------------------------------------- Portfolio123 Staff |
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lopiuh
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hmm i am wondering more and more if pf123/compustat is my product. I hate not being in control of the data I pay for (using). Compare the situation to AAII sipro where you get a local copy of the data for under 200$. I would prefer compustat data (pf123). I would be willing to use data on a pay to rent basis. But being restricted in this way - can't crunch the data in my way - just in order to satisfy compustat needs for copy protection seems not to meet customers targets and to fool us a little bit. So it all is about lesser data quality (sipro) or "data in prison". Just some thoughts. Sorry for being angry, but I thinks its such a bad compustat thing. Kudoos for pf123 software development but I have a PC and compiler, not only a browser! ---------------------------------------- [Edit 2 times, last edit by lopiuh at Jul 18, 2012 6:33:05 PM] |
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dfritz1
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I received this error message today after only a few downloads - maybe 4 or 5? This is a big problem for me. I sometimes need to download the data to see why a rank or sim is working the way it is. Please let me know if I can get more downloads per day. thanks, Debbie |
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