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Joined: 10/27/2004
Posts: 821
Location: Philly area
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I have a number of Watch Lists. Periodically, I notice that Worden updates them for symbol changes and the like.
Unfortunately, sometimes the updates are a mystery - in that someing gets replaced with something that's unrelated. I have complained to Worden several times without result over the years..
DOES ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCE THIS PROBLEM? If so, do you have any idea what's happening?
Background: Lately it's happened again. For example, CIT Financial and China Wind Systems appeared imex[ectedlu on one of my longer watchlists. I have not figured out just what (if anyathing) got booted when this happened.
As I have dozens of watch lists, I am never sure what get's corrupted as some were historic scans. In this case, it's a much used list (it holds stocks I have and am interested in).
In most of the cases I have traced down it's a replacement, not an addition, to the list. The changes don't appear to have any relationship between the Before and After stock symbol. Checking out the two symbols in a pair do not show anything that would imply the change (such as a merger, a buyout, a change in an exchange listing (as in NYSE to NASDAQ)). It have not noticed a proclivity to a case where a stock symbol is temporarily changes -- as in when a "D" suffix is temporarily applied to a listing.
I have been keeping a simple record of each one that I find. In general, I find that there is no relationship to any of the stocks that were on the list and got overwritten. In this case, it's a list of stocks I have or am interested in. So eventually I will identify what's happened.
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Joined: 10/7/2004
Posts: 154
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Yes there are long standing issues with ticker maintenance.
You may want to review these discussion topics:
http://forums.worden.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=32945
http://forums.worden.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=38625
http://forums.worden.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=26121
Also note that it is now 2010, and the last release of TCNet (not counting the 2007 release,
which was just for compatibility with what was called "Blocks" at the time (now "StockFinder"))
was in 2005:
http://forums.worden.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=20436
Draw your own conclusions.
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