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Date:	Sat, 16 Jun 2001 18:27:08 PDT
From:	"Lynn H. Maxson" <lmaxson@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
To:	Scoug Sundial Sig <scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-SundialSIG: Our June investment project kickoff

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Now the balancing act begins to maintain a continuity in this
project through this mailing list and still somewhat irregularly
scheduled monthly meetings. Apparently we (or at least some of
us) have ongoing investments in mutual funds, 401ks, IRAs, stocks,
savings accounts, and possibly even in foreign currencies and in
commodities. What we want to do is to have some way of tracking
multiples within each and eventually globally across all of them.

This means the capturing, maintaining, archiving, summarizing, and
reporting of data. Baring the use of live feed for moment by
moment shifts, this means at least the ability to capture daily
data when available. Then processing this daily data into weekly,
monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual summaries individually
and in groups.

While we begin with different investment types, our apples and
oranges, our goal lies in evaluating them relative to their
nutritional value, i.e. their common evaluation as food. It
wasn't presented with this analogy in the meeting, but "apples to
apples" and "oranges to oranges" doesn't allow the more global
comparisons to occur, which are part of the group's (this one)
specification.

So we will focus first on data capture, including our sources, the
means of capture, those of extraction (selection of relevant
data), and their internal storage form, e.g. CSV or
comma-separated. One suggested program is WGET for capturing an
entire (html) webpage (I believe). Certainly we are open to
considering others as well as accumulating a list of sources. So
anything used by any member, whether fee- or free-based, is
welcomed.

So shall we begin?

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