An ideal application
for those that use a TV card in their PC to gather share price
information. Use Share Find to interrogate those files to find
the actual information you are looking for. For instance,
Channel 4 pages 533-537 contain share prices for over 3000
companies. That can provide very difficult to find what you
are looking for.
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With Share Find, simply put in the
Teletex name of the company (which you only need to find out once),
and it will give you the share price from the Teletext data file or
files you select.
The results can then be put into Excel for further investigation.
The companies you list can be saved
in files called share sets. Any number of share sets can be
created and used. For
instance, you may have a share set for your portfolio, one for the
shares you are keeping an eye on, or one for a friend.
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Share prices on Teletext look
something like this:
BritGlbIT 100½ BrunnerIT 484 +5½
BritSmlrC 73½ Bryant Gp 146½ +4½
BrixtnEst 241½ BS Group 160
BroadcslW 23½ BSkyB 1121 +10
Broadcstl 48½ BSoftB 85
BroadgteW 23½ BSS Grp. 365 +2½
BroadgtIT 97½ BT 572 -5
Brockhptn 320 +25 BTG 1450 +37½
BrockhtnA 105½ -1 Buckland 4¼
BrookeInd 32½ BucklndWt 2
This contains the company name,
share price and the amount it's changed since the previous day. You'll notice that the
amounts are shown in fractions, not decimals - a nightmare for a
spreadsheet. Share Find will strip out the useful information
and provide you with formatted data for pasting directly into your
spreadsheet.
PC Requirements:
Share Find
will run on almost any PC
| Processor |
any Intel/AMD (or equivalent)
from 486 onwards |
| OS |
Windows 9x, ME,
NT 4 or 2000 (pro or server) |
| Hard disk space |
approximately 2MB |
| Memory |
any amount that supports the
current OS (very little required) |
| Screen Resolution |
Ideally at least 1024x768,
although 800x600 will just about work |
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