Friday, February 20, 1998

The Daily Workshop Report
by Robert Sheard (TMF Sheard)

LEXINGTON, KY. (February 20, 1998) -- Well, Fools, it's going to be an abbreviated report tonight as we learn a lesson in the problems of database screening. The new Value Line weekly update was delayed today by some three hours. When it did make its appearance, the data wasn't entirely accurate. For example, Best Buy <% if gsSubBrand = "aolsnapshot" then Response.Write("(NYSE: BBY)") else Response.Write("(NYSE: BBY)") end if %> is showing a 26-week Total Return of -57%. The stock has, in fact, more than doubled in the last six months.

Someone obviously blew the data on Best Buy and many other stocks this week. Of course, that pretty much puts paid to the rankings we follow that use relative strength screens based on the last 26 weeks. Rather than post obviously flawed rankings for these stocks, I'll only post the new rankings that aren't based on relative strength data. Let's hope next week's data is back on track.

So, no updates for the Relative Strength screen, the Low Price/Sales Screen, the IFG with Relative Strength Screen, and the Keystone Screen. Also, no updates for the YTD returns, as those come from the database as well.

I'll attempt to download the data again this weekend or early next week to see if they've posted a corrected version. Until then, Fools, sorry about that. Have a good weekend!

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