I came up with this program while I was at work. If you like this program just send $15.00
dollars to:
      Joseph Zupko
      26460 Shirley Ave.
      Euclid, OH 44132-1931

Disclaimer:
Please note this is a as is program. The accuracy of the Value is as close as it can be. This
program will not increase your wealth it is just a program to keep track of daily stock quotes
from American Online, Prodigy or other services that let you download in CSV, WKS or DOS
TXT formats. With other formats you might have to parse it first.

YOUR FIRST ENTRY:
To use it just click on the entering data button. Then fill in the blanks but never fill in areas that
contain a formula this will because the program will not work. Don t press click on  New  when
entering a stock for the first time. Doing this will cause the data to go to the next line. After you
enter your first stock you can close it or enter a new one. To enter another one just lick on
 New  to clear the form. If you want to exit out of the form sheet just click the close button on
the form sheet. To enter another stock just click on the new button and fill in the blanks. Please
note  PURCHASED  on the form sheet is the date you bought the stock. The only items you
should fill out are NAME, SYM, PURCHASED, SHARES, PRICE, and INITIAL QUOTE. The
rest are for calculations. To learn more about the data sheet commands on the right look at the
chapter that explains the data sheet form.


GETTING QUOTES:
If you use the Prodigy and possibly other boards to get your quotes you might only have to
change one thing and that is on C21. On this line you should replace  FILE NAME  with the
file name that will open the data file that contains your stock data. 

PRODIGY:
Prodigy has a area of service were you can keep a list of stocks that you would like to down to
your hard disk or just have them printed out. To get  to the Quote Track area just type Quote
Track in the Jump box when you click on Jump on the bottom of the screen. The format below
is a closed quote. Using this type or format only downloads the closing stock prices. The other
format you can have is call current quotes. This format lets you download the current trading
price, open and low. 

Closing Quotes



ADBE
72.5
6/14/93


ALDC
15.5
6/14/93


LOTS
35.375
6/14/93


MSFT
92.25
6/14/93


SPCO
7.875
6/14/93


SYMC
16.75
6/14/93


CA
28.25
6/14/93


BORL
23.25
6/14/93


When choosing this format the formula should look like the one below:
=INDEX($A$60:$C$161,MATCH(B6,$A$60:$A$161,0),2)

The  2  tells Excel to return the result in column two. More about the formula later.

For  Date  enter C61 in K4.

If you want Current quotes only the downloaded format looks like this.:




APD
6/14/93
41.5
-0.125
41.75
41.75
41.5
180700


ALG
6/14/93
9.75
0
9.625
9.875
9.625
124900


BAC
6/14/93
43.875
0
44
44.5
43.75
1038600


BOL
6/14/93
51.375
0.5
50.75
51.75
50.75
226300


BTL
6/14/93
48.5
-0.375
49
49
48.5
44300


When choosing this format the formula should look like the one below:
=INDEX($A$60:$C$161,MATCH(B6,$A$60:$A$161,0),3)

The  3" tells Excel to return the result in column three. 

For  Date  enter B61 in K4.

American Online

American Online has a different format then Prodigy. The format in prodigy is ASCI only. You can
name the file and extension anything you want. The best extension is .TXT. This will save you
from parsing the data.

When you enter the stock you want on American Online it will ask for the purchase price and the
number of shares you want. This way you will get a current value of how each of your stocks are
doing. But you can t keep a log of it or let you chart your historical data. Using Portfolio will let
you accomplish this. 

Closing Quotes 
The way American Online lets you download quotes look like the one below:






Curr.

Purch.
Gain/



Symbol
Qty.
Price
Change
Price
Loss
Value











BORL
100
22 1/2
0.875
26
-350
2,250.00


CA
100
27
0.375
29.38
-238
2,700.00


adbe
100
68 3/4
4 1/8
64.75
400
6,875.00


aldc
100
15 3/4
-0.25
15.5
25
1,575.00


lots
100
34 3/4
0.625
32.25
250
3,475.00


msft
100
91
-1 1/4
88.5
250
9,100.00


spco
100
7 7/8
0.125
8
-12.5
787.5


symc
100
15 1/2
-0.5
17.13
-163
1,550.00


=INDEX($A$60:$C$161,MATCH(B6,$A$60:$A$161,0),3)

For  Date  enter it yourself or use the =Today() function

ENTERING STOCK TO KEEP TRACK OF
To make a list of stock that you wold like to follow just type  Quote Configuration  in the Jump
dialog box when you click Jump on the bottom of the screen with your mouse. Click on the  File 
button and go to  Add Item  this will take you to a dialog box. You can enter a stock in two ways
by typing the stock symbol or the name of the company. If you know the stock symbol for the stock
that you wish to keep track of enter it on the first line. This will add the name of the stock to your
list. If you don t know the stock symbol for the stock that you wish to add to your stock just type
the name of the company that you would like to add on the second line. This will then give you a
list of companies. Just place your arrow on the name of the company you like and press the mouse
button. This will then add the stock symbol to your list.


Compuserve

Name                                     Volume    Hi/Ask   Low/Bid     Last  Change Update
-------------------------  ------       ---------    ----------   ----------      ------    ------
MICROSOFT CORP COM         89990     74.250    72.000     74.000  -5.000   7/30
 
=INDEX($A$60:$C$161,MATCH(B6,$A$60:$A$161,0),6)

For  Date  enter H61 in K4.

Everything is very self explanatory if the only change you might have to encounter is sorting the
database. to extend the data base just click on Formula, Define Name, select SORT and change the
number on how far down the database goes.


If your have any questions just sent to my Compuserv account or to my internet address:
AH238@cleveland.freenet.edu

Hope you like the program.