George - While not directed to me, I found this to be a thoughtful and helpful response. Thank you.WPO/NCC Investors. From: QuantextMC@yahoogroups.com...
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Ralph Bowlin
zydecodiver
Jun 25, 2011 9:51 pm
Thanks for the You Tube hot link to a german view of US market. To qualify myself I am 50% invested in distressed real estate as an operating business, 25% in...
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Brett
pearlcreek31
Jun 26, 2011 2:18 am
I appreciate the recent comments on reducing equity exposure and also appreciate everybody openly discussing their strategies. Perhaps I am missing something,...
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investor952
Jun 26, 2011 2:19 am
Yes, I look at SeekingAlpha.com regulary. There are also a whole host of other free dividend related (and other) blogs out there that I have forwarded to an...
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investor952
Jun 26, 2011 3:57 am
Hello...like I said in one of my messages...I agree with you IF the correction is for technical reasons (price/chart reasons). However, if it is for...
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Geoff
quantext2002
Jul 13, 2011 8:15 pm
Hi all: As many of you are aware, I have done a lot of research on low-Beta stocks and their role in strategic asset allocation. I have a new blog post on...
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Geoff
quantext2002
Aug 30, 2011 4:04 am
Hi all: Wow--it has been quite around here--not least because of me, but I want to see if I can get this discussion going again. To start: I am not doing most...
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Lowell
lherr_99
Feb 18, 2012 8:30 pm
Is anyone else having problems updating QPP? My software is choking on ticker symbols that are not part of the portfolio I am trying to examine. Did Yahoo!...
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Geoff
quantext2002
Feb 19, 2012 6:45 pm
Hi Lowell: We have heard from about 6 users that they have had problems with the data update. I have had QPP choke a couple of times, but it runs fine if you...
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Lowell Herr
lherr_99
Feb 19, 2012 8:17 pm
Geoff et. al., I am running a new Windows 7 with a 64-bit Operating System. I don't think this is the problem as I had QPP40 running until a few days ago....
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physlab@...
lherr_99
Feb 19, 2012 10:59 pm
Geoff, I was able to update the QPP20 using two tickers. I followed identical procedures, again using only two tickers with QPP40 and the program choked. It...
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George Gagliardi
ggagliardi_0...
Feb 20, 2012 12:01 am
Make sure that your license hasn't expired. I had a similar problem a week ago, and then discovered that I had passed my 1-year anniversary date. George ...
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Geoff
quantext2002
Feb 20, 2012 12:27 am
Hi Lowell and others: I have spent a good bit of the day going through QPP. What I am finding suggests very strongly that Yahoo! Finance is simply...
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beethovenfunk
Feb 21, 2012 6:32 am
I don't have Quantext anymore but can confirm that the problems appear to be on Yahoo's end. My accounting software updates through Yahoo as well and it won't...
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Eric Johnson
commander_rice
Feb 21, 2012 12:59 pm
I, also, have had no success after several tries. The lock-up seems to be random. Eric Johnson ... -- Eric Johnson...
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Lowell Herr
lherr_99
Feb 21, 2012 1:16 pm
I tried early this morning and still no success with QPP40. I was able to update using QPP20 yesterday afternoon. Lowell http://itawealthmanagement.com...
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Geoff
quantext2002
Feb 21, 2012 3:28 pm
Good morning all: After substantial diagnostic analysis this weekend, I have concluded that the Yahoo! data download is running so slowly that QPP's data grabs...
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David Phillips
davidphillip...
Feb 21, 2012 5:40 pm
Thanks very much Geoff. Please provide us with the info needed to contact Yahoo. Several years ago I tried to find a way to bring some errors to their...
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wilgor456
Feb 21, 2012 6:04 pm
Recently, other program(s) [VSS] produced necessary updates for Yahoo data retrieval. Perhaps the same problem is occurring with QPP....
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QuantextMC@yahoogroup...
Feb 22, 2012 12:25 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the QuantextMC group. File : /Sub...
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Geoff
quantext2002
Feb 22, 2012 12:36 am
Hi all: A QPP user has solved the problem with the data download!! Newilar, as he is known here, has come up with the following that works and will take about...
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Lowell Herr
lherr_99
Feb 23, 2012 2:23 pm
Geoff, The latest "On Error GoTo QueryQuote" is not a complete solution as the choking problem is showing again this morning even with the fix in place. Lowell...
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lswpubrw
lswpubrlw
Feb 23, 2012 7:07 pm
At 2:00 PM, it took 4 tries to get a download on QPP40. Bob Warasila From: Lowell Herr Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:23 AM To: QuantextMC@yahoogroups.com...
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Bill Erickson
hoyacoder53
May 1, 2012 3:41 pm
I've been using QPP for several years and I normally use a 3-year time horizon for historical data. One of my biggest holdings, roughly 10%, is ConocoPhillips...
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clg94960
Jul 31, 2012 1:35 am
Geoff - Thanks for your article on CEFs - Very helpful...CLG...
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Lowell
lherr_99
Jan 30, 2013 7:27 pm
Investor952, I am setting up the "Optimizer SS" you developed to work with the QPP spreadsheet and I would appreciate some help in creating constraints so the...
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Lowell Herr
lherr_99
Jan 31, 2013 12:48 pm
I answered my own question as I figured out how to set up the constraints I was searching for. I'm finding that optimizing on Return/Risk ratio is yielding...
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uzzk23a
Feb 1, 2013 5:13 pm
Did you ever rationalize why you are optimizing against Return/Risk as opposed to [10%-ile portfolio value 45 years into the future] These two approaches...
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Lowell Herr
lherr_99
Feb 1, 2013 8:29 pm
Craig, No, I have not set up a way to optimize using the 10%-ile value. I read post #2261, but I'm not sure how I would create those graphs. Considering the...
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kninece
Feb 19, 2013 11:08 pm
What I would pay good money for: 1) A real world working SS that links with QPP (I've modified bill.g.welch's 2007 Simple Optimizer 3 found in the files...
