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                           SHARE

                (c) J.R.Leighton Aug 1987

SHARES is a suite of programs which allows up to 3 portfolios
containing up to 20 companies each and 1 Index file, to be updated
either manually or automatically from 'live' CEEFAX broadcasts. The
data in the files may be displayed in the form of plots such that
trends can be seen and perhaps forecast. Books on the subject,
'chartism', can be found in libraries and bookshops.

It must be emphasised that the author cannot be responsible for any
gain or loss incurred from the use of this suite of programs!

                       ...oooOOOooo...

1.  DOWNLOADING FROM TELESOFTWARE

Download from telesoftware, files MAIN, ENTRY, ANALYSE, PLOT,
OVERALL, AUTO, PRINT16, YEAR, 19870, 19871, 19872, 19880, 19881 and
19882 to a blank formatted disc. A description of the data files
19870, 19871 etc., may be found in Appendix I.

1.1 INITIALISATION

CHAIN MAIN by typing CH."MAIN" and, because it is being run for the
first time, you will be asked whether you would like a !BOOT file
produced. If so, from now on, the disc may be auto-BOOTed in the
usual way by pressing shift-BREAK.

It is recommended that you now make a back-up copy of the disc since
it is written to whilst updating records. In fact, regular back-ups
should be made, since, should a disc become corrupted or damaged, you
could lose several years worth of data. 

2.  CONTROLS AND USE OF SHARE SOFTWARE

There now follows a description of the controls required to save and
analyse share prices. It is assumed that the broadcast software and
data files are on the same disc in DRIVE 0.

Later on, you may wish to select your own shares from those broadcast
on the financial pages of CEEFAX. In this case see APPENDIX II.

The disc holding the SHARE software should always be placed in DRIVE
0 since programs are loaded automatically from this DRIVE. See
APPENDIX I on how to use different DRIVES for the data files.

Auto-BOOT the disc and the main menu will be presented.

The UP/DOWN cursor keys should be used in any menu/panel to select
and the RETURN key used to make the selection. Wrap around of the
cursor is utilised.

3.  SELECT PORTFOLIO

The first option selects a portfolio. This is only required if you
wish to create/enter/alter/browse a portfolio manually. Selecting
this will present another panel which lists all the available
portfolios (3) and an index file.

If any particular portfolio has not yet been created you will be
asked whether you would like one created. This entails entering the
date and the day of the week from which it will run. Enough space for
the current year is then allocated to the file selected, provided
there is enough room on the disc.

4.  DATA ENTRY

The next option on the main menu allows the currently selected
portfolio (displayed at the head of the menu) to be
updated/altered/browsed. Either the name of the companies may be
inserted/altered (usually on creation of the Portfolio) or the share
price for any company on any day may be entered/altered. When
inserting the company names, care should be taken to ensure that the
entered characters are exactly as transmitted on CEEFAX page 130. If
there is ANY difference, it will not be updated. It is not necessary
to insert the FT-100 name to the index file since this is done
automatically on file creation and it is not searched for during data
downloading.

4.1 Whilst in the edit prices panel, use the LEFT/RIGHT cursor keys
to decrement/increment the date and the UP/DOWN cursor keys to select
a particular company.

Note that if you DECREMENT the date, using the LEFT cursor key,
beyond the beginning of the file then the current file will be CLOSEd
and a file for the previous year will be searched for. If it does not
exist you will be asked whether you would like to create one.

Similarly, if you ADVANCE the date, using the RIGHT cursor key,
beyond the last day of the current file, then this file will be
CLOSEd and a file for the next year will be searched for. Again, if
it does not exist you will be asked whether you wish to create one.

On answering a few questions the new file will be created if there is
enough room on the current disc surface.

N.B. WHEN LEAVING THE EDIT PRICES PANEL, IT SHOULD BE SET ON THE
CURRENT DAY SINCE THE PLOTTING PROGRAMMES PLOT UP TO THIS DAY.

4.2 Having left the editing facility and records have been changed it
is advisable to use the SCALE option. The data in the current file is
scanned such that scaling parameters can be calculated and placed on
the disc which increases the plotting speed in the plot option. If a
large amount of data has been collected this will take a little
while. Since the updating is designed to be done automatically from
CEEFAX this should not be a problem as the scaling is also done
automatically and all the data does not normally need to be scanned.
This facility can also be utilised if the scaling parameters are
found not to be correct while plotting.

5.  AUTO ENTRY

The third option will automatically update from CEEFAX, any Portfolio
files found on the disc. Presently, there are two files of share
prices and a file holding the FT100 index.

The data is only downloaded at the 'close of business' for the
current day. It does not matter what day the file was left at on its
last use since the program searches for the correct day. 

Any days for which data is not entered will result in gaps on the
disc. These gaps are catered for in the analysis programmes. Weekends
are not allocated space on the disc since the City is closed at these
times, thus reducing wasted space.

If an attempt is made to download data during the weekend, it will be
saved in the space allocated to the previous Friday. Similarly, if an
attempt is made to download data after midnight and before 9 am and
the CEEFAX pages still hold data for the previous day, it will be
saved in the space allocated to the previous day.

Bank holidays are allocated space since it would be difficult to
calculate these days and the amount of work involved would not
warrant the small amount of space saved.

It is advisable to plot all the data after downloading them, since
any errors in capturing the data can usually be identified and
corrected. See APPENDIX III for errors in auto-downloading data.

6.  ANALYSE

The fourth option on the main menu is to analyse the data. On
selection, another panel will be displayed which allows the data to
be plotted.

6.1 The first two options allow a particular company/index to be
plotted with that of another company/index. If only one is selected
then a graph covering the whole screen will be plotted for the
selected company/index.

6.2 The third option plots the one or two selected companies/index
previously selected. The price/indicator axis (vertical) is
logarithmic since share prices move in this manner.

6.3 The fourth option allows the index and share prices to be plotted
two-at-a-time with a key press required between each plot. The ESCAPE
key may be used to exit this sequence. Pressing <P> will cause the
supplied screen dump software to be loaded and dump the current
screen to an Epson compatible printer. See APPENDIX IV for use of
other screen dump programs.

6.4 The next option plots the percentage gains/losses over all the
companies in all the Portfolio files on the disc.

The data for shares going ex-scrip are not adjusted but these are
easily detected by large downward jumps in the plotted prices by
factors of 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 etc. (these are marked xc on the CEEFAX
pages). However, large slumps in the market will also appear in a
similar fashion and usually affect all prices and indices as during
October 1987. 

6.5 The sixth and seventh options allow the setting of running
averages.

Both running average periods may be increased or decreased in days by
pressing the LEFT or RIGHT cursor keys whilst the bar cursor is over
the required option. Also each averaging period may be toggled ON or
OFF by pressing the RETURN key whilst the cursor bar is over the
required option.

The settings will be stored on disc in file 'YEAR' so that the next
time the program is used the same averaging periods and state will be
used.

The averages plotted may, arguably, be used to assist in determining
the trend of a share price. Trial-and-error and experience should be
used to find good values for the averaging periods. 

6.6 The final option returns the user to the main menu.

7.  DATA DRIVE

This option allows the current drive to be changed from within the
program should you have more than one drive available.

8.  END

This option ENDs the program cleanly and enters BASIC.


APPENDIX I

A)  FILENAMES

Data filenames are made up of the YEAR, eg. 1987, followed by  0, 1,
2 or 3. Files ending in 0 are the Index files holding the FT-100
Index. Those ending in 1, 2 or 3 hold prices for up to 20 companies
each.

The file 'YEAR' holds the current year for each of the previously
described files. This file may be deleted using the Disc Filing
System (DFS) command 

              *DELETE YEAR

and then recreated on AUTO-BOOTing the MAIN menu. This is to allow
data from a previous year to be plotted on its own.

Should the current disc become full whilst creating new files, you
have to remove old files from the disc. You may like to copy these
old files to another disc first before they are deleted from the
current disc. If so, exit the SHARE programs and use the DFS command,

              *COPY 0 0 1987*

which will copy all the files for 1987 to another disc in DRIVE 0. In
this case, you will of course, be prompted to insert source and
destination discs.

Once they have been safely copied they should be deleted from the
current disc using the DFS command

              *WIPE 1987*

It is suggested that the disc is now compacted.

If you have a double sided or dual disc drives you may maximise the
amount of disc space available for data files by transferring all the
data files to a disc surface in other than DRIVE 0 which must hold
the SYSTEM software. So, if for instance, you have a double-sided
drive you could transfer all the data files to DRIVE 2, the obverse
side to DRIVE 0, by issuing the DFS command,

              *COPY 0 2 1987*

which will copy all 1987 files from DRIVE 0 to DRIVE 2. Then,

              *COPY 0 2 1988*

which will copy all 1988 files and so on.

Once this has been done you could delete these files from DRIVE 0 as
described earlier.

To use these files on DRIVE 2, auto-BOOT the system disc containing
the SHARE software and change drives using the relevant option from
the MAIN PANEL.  

B)  FILE STRUCTURE

For those who may wish to write their own software to analyse the
data there now follows a detailed description of the file structure.

The file 'YEAR' may be read using the following BASIC:-

         10 DIM year%(3)
         20 X%=OPENIN("YEAR")
         30 FOR I%=0 TO 3
         40 INPUT#X%,year%(I%)
         50 NEXT
         60 IF EXT#X%>&14 INPUT#X%,L%,H%
         70 CLOSE#X%
         80 END
          so that the current year for the INDEX file, YYYY0 is held
in the array element year%(0) and that for PORTFOLIO 1, ie. YYYY1, is
held in the array element year%(1) where YYYY is the integer held in
the array element concerned.

The variables L% and H%, if present, hold the current averaging
periods and state. If the value held is greater than 200 then the
averaging period will be switched ON, otherwise it will be switched
OFF. If an averaging period is ON, subtract 256 and it will be
switched OFF. Conversely, if an averaging period is OFF, add 256 and
it will be switched ON.

The INDEX and PORTFOLIO files have a relatively complex file
structure. There are 4 main sections to these files.

SECTION 1 - INDEX or Company names. SECTION 2 - dates and disc
pointers. SECTION 3 - maximum and minimum prices. SECTION 4 - the
prices.

SECTION 1  INDEX or Company names.

When updating the files from 'CEEFAX' the Index data is found by
transferring BBC 1/Page 125 to memory. Pages are transferred to
memory until sub-page 2 is found, when the FT-100 index is extracted
and saved to disc.

On the other hand, for the PORTFOLIO files, BBC 1/Page 130 is
transferred into memory. The share price for any particular company
may be found on any of 6 sub pages so each company name held on file
is compared with each company name on the transferred CEEFAX page. If
there is a match, the appropriate price is extracted and saved.

The company names on CEEFAX are held in up to 7-characters. Likewise,
the company names held in the PORTFOLIO files are held in
7-characters. For this reason, there are no terminators to the
company names on file as they are always 7-characters long. The
company names are written one character at a time in correct order,
ie. as they normally appear.

SECTION 2  DATES AND DISC POINTERS

This section holds some spare bytes for possible future expansion and
all the dates and pointers for data access.

SECTION 3 - MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM PRICES.

Because the Index/prices may be any value from 0 to 9999 they need to
be scaled whilst plotting. To speed up the plotting process the
maximum and minimum values are stored on disc. During automatic
downloading, these values are updated simply by comparing the most
recently downloaded prices against the maximum and minimum values
stored on disc. If necessary, the max/min values are updated.

SECTION 4 - THE PRICES.

The main section of each file holds the prices for each company.

There now follows the layout of the data files:-

SECTION 1  SHARE NAMES

         bytes     description

         0-6       first share name
         7-13      second share name
                   etc. for up to 20 names SECTION 2  POINTERS

         bytes     description

         140-157   spare bytes
                   
         158-159   pointer to first data point for first share
                   (pointer DIV 256, pointer MOD 256)
                   
         160-163   current date (D/M/Y) in the form D, M, Y DIV
                   256, Y MOD 256
                   
         164       current day (Monday=1, Tuesday=2 etc.)
                   
         165-166   pointer to first share price on current day
                   (pointer DIV 256, pointer MOD 256)
                   
         167-170   date of first data point in the same form as
                   bytes 160-163

SECTION 3  MAXIMUM, MINIMUM VALUES

         bytes     description

         171-172}  first share minimum value (min DIV 256, min
                   MOD 256)
         173-174}  first share maximum value (max DIV 256, max
                   MOD 256)
         175-176}  second share minimum value (min DIV 256, min
                   MOD 256)
                }  and so on for up to 20 shares

SECTION 4  SHARE DATA

         bytes     description

         251-252   first share price for first company (price
                   DIV 100, price MOD 100)
                   
         253-254   first share price for second company (price
                   DIV 100, price MOD 100)
                   
         and so on for 20 companies. This sequence is then
         repeated for each day so that for a normal data file
         each day occupies 40 bytes. Note that in the case of
         the INDEX files each day occupies 2 bytes only but in
         every other respect the files are identical. 

APPENDIX II

STARTING A NEW SET OF PORTFOLIOS

If you wish to start with a completely new set of portfolios, proceed
as follows:-

 1) DELETE ALL DATA FILES.
    
    Assuming the data files are in the current drive, issue the
    following DFS commands from BASIC or whatever,
    
                        *WIPE 1987*
                        *WIPE 1988*
                        *DELETE YEAR
    
    and reply to any prompts.

 2) AUTO-BOOT THE SYSTEM DISC IN DRIVE 0.
    
    You will be asked what year the INDEX and PORTFOLIO files
    are to start. If you do not want a particular file to be
    created reply by entering 0 (zero), otherwise, enter the
    year, eg. 1988. This creates the file 'YEAR' on DRIVE 0.
    
    FILE 'YEAR' IS ALWAYS ON DRIVE 0.

 3) CREATE THE DATA FILES.
    
    The data files will only be created when you try to access a
    file which does not exist.
    
    The best method is to select each file from the MAIN panel
    and then select 'Data entry'. Select 'Data entry/browse'
    from the next panel and answer the questions presented.
    
    If all is well a blank file will be created starting at the
    specified starting date and ending on the last day of the
    year which is not a Saturday or Sunday.
    
    Return to the main panel to create the next file.

 4) ENTER SHARE NAMES.
    
    Next the blank files must have sharenames inserted.
    
    The INDEX file has its name inserted automatically.
    
    From the MAIN panel, select one of the PORTFOLIOS previously
    created. Then select 'Data entry'.
    
    From the next panel select 'Share name entry/edit'.
    
    Enter the sharenames. The keyed input is printed in the
    panel at the bottom. When all the required characters for
    each share name have been entered, press <RETURN>. There is
    no need to press <RETURN> if the entered name is 7
    characters long. The PANEL cursor will automatically move
    down 1 row, ready for the next share name.

    When all the share names have been entered, it is important
    to exit the routine by placing the cursor over the 'End
    entry' and pressing <RETURN>. This will cause the share
    names to be written to disc and the file closed. The
    previous PANEL will then appear.
    
    Return to the MAIN panel to repeat the process for the next
    PORTFOLIO.

APPENDIX III

ERRORS IN DOWNLOADING DATA FROM CEEFAX

A) SHARE NAMES SPELT INCORRECTLY

The share prices are downloaded by scanning the relevant pages of
CEEFAX for the required companies.

As mentioned earlier, if the sharename is spelt differently to that
on the CEEFAX pages it will not be found. Check the spelling on the
disc file by using the EDIT option.

It has been noticed, very occassionally (twice in about 8 months),
that a company name transferred from CEEFAX is spelt differently from
that stored on disc.

This is usually temporary but does mean that the share price in
question is not downloaded to disc.

This may be detected whilst plotting the data by the fact that the
scaling for the share is wrong ie. most of the data will probably be
compressed to the top of the graph.

If this happens, the easiest method of correction is to:-

      1) exit the SHARE programs
      2) enter TELETEXT
      3) select BBC 1/page 130 and look for the share concerned 
      4) note down the price
      5) exit TELETEXT
      6) enter the SHARE software
      7) insert the price manually using the EDIT option
      8) use the SCALE option on exiting the EDIT option to
         reset the scaling parameters.

B) SHARE PRICE INCORRECT

Sometimes, the price may be incorrect. This can be detected whilst
plotting by large jumps in the price.

If the share has gone ex-scrip, which means that it has been
de-valued by factors of 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, etc. it will be annotated thus
on the CEEFAX page and nothing should be done about it.

If the share has not gone ex-scrip and the price still looks wrong,
check the CHANGE which is given after the price. The correct price
can be calculated by ADDING this change to the previous days
'close-of-business' price. On the odd occasion that this happens
there is usually just one character wrong.

Once the correct price has been found, use the method previously
described to correct it on the disc file.

C) SHARE MISSING FROM CEEFAX BROADCAST

The list of shares broadcast by CEEFAX usually stays constant, but
there is no guarantee that the shares chosen will remain unchanged.

If a share is taken off the CEEFAX broadcast there is not a lot you
can do apart from entering the prices manually from another source,
ie. the financial press.

Alternatively, you could change the company name such that prices for
a different company will be downloaded. In this case the data
downloaded previous to the name change should be blanked using the
EDIT option, which is rather tedious.

APPENDIX IV

ALTERNATIVE SCREEN DUMP IN PLOT OPTION

If you wish to use a different screen dump to that offered, LOAD the
program "PLOT" and enter the relevant command in PROCedure (PROCdump)
in place of that already there.

N.B. Do not move this procedure in program PLOT since the last dozen
lines or so are deleted from memory during execution of the program
to save on space.

SAVE PLOT and repeat the process with the BASIC file OVERALL.
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