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Re: AIMster post# 1151

Sunday, 08/24/2008 6:36:14 PM

Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:36:14 PM

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Hi AIMster,

As usual your suggestion is very good, but there are 2 issues right now.

1) VSS is currently a subscription-based package because it uses data that I have to continually update on one of my servers. However AI is not subscription-based because it retrieves its data directly from Yahoo! Finance. So to implement VSS-like functionality in AI would either mean charging a recurring fee to AI users or having VSS users subsidize AI users. Neither of these options are good ones at the moment.

2) I'm in the process of finishing a major update to the Pragmatic Investor software and thus my time is extremely limited.

However I like your idea. Of course the work-around is to use VSS to create the list of stocks, export it to a text file and then import this file into AI and analyze it. Not the seamless solution you're proposing, but it would work and it's not too difficult to do. The one thing missing would be the automatic sort, but that can be eye-balled.

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