I’m using Metastock EOD Ver 9 with a Paritech USA data feed. The USA shares are arranged alphabetically in a separate folder for each letter. All NSYE, AMEX & NASDAQ shares beginning with A are in one folder and those beginning with B in another. I’m wanting to make up filtered lists of these shares that I can add to sub-folders in Favourites. For instance I might want a list of all NSYE shares that are valued at over $1 billion. This information comes from a text file I can get from the internet, not from within Metastocks database so I cannot use Metastocks exploration programme to chose the shares list. Is there any way I can load an “external” list of shares into Metastock’s favourites folders. Any help much appreciated Cheers Gerard

Marilyn Thanks for the speedy reply. I've created a separate symbol list as you suggested but I cannot import the stock links into the Favorites. Each time I try "Add New Security" it simply creates a new data file in the last data folder I was looking at. I wonder if I haven't explained the position clearly in my original request. I have data for all these stocks, I just want to include the links from the data file into folders in the Favorites folder. For instance I have the chart for Microsoft in the "master" database in the folder named "M". I now want to add it to the Favorites folder named "Over $1billion". I dont want to create a new data file as this will mean I have 2 data files for Microsoft and trend lines etc I add into one will not show up in the second. Also, if I have more filtered lists this will add more data files for the same share. And it takes much longer to update all the new data files every day. I know how to add a file to Favorites individually but what I want to do is to add groups of say 500 shares to a Favorites folder. This would take forever doing it manually. I am afraid I could not see any way of adding the new shares list I had created in the "SYM" file in the Downloader folder into Favorites. Each time I tried it created new data files in whichever "Local" folder I had last visited. Hope this is clear!! Many thanks for your help. Cheers Gerard

Patrick Many thanks for your reply. I think I might know why I'm having such difficulty. I'm using the Paritech EOD data which is all off line. I download the whole USA price list for each day and update my prices database on my PC using Paritech's own programme "Data Director" I do not have an <Online> option in the Open Securities box, only History, Local and Favorites. When I open the Dummy exploration and try "Add Securities" the box only considers SmartCharts in the "Files of Type" box and will not let me look at *.SYM types. Is there any way round this? If not I'll try Paritech and see if they have any suggestions. Cheers and many thanks for your help Gerard PS I've attempted to add Screenshots of what I'm talking about as an attachment. No sure if I've got the right format though!