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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: lizgdal ✶☼  😊 😞
Number: of 6244 
Subject: Re: My new Program
Date: 01/26/26 11:47 AM
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Nasdaq is specified by:
iflt(linear(1,ord(1),-1,date2ord(19731217)),0,3,excd.a)et3

[NHNLDiff]
step0 restricts to Nasdaq listed: [Exchange Code] == 3
step1 restricts to "Russell-eligible stocks": [Security Type] == 10,11,18,48

Author: rgearyiii
Subject: Re: Nasdaq NH/NL
Date: 8/26/2019
"... The design is to use the stocks that I use, which happens to be very close to FTSE/Russell-eligible stocks, so I describe them as such for ease of communication. ...
6. Perhaps most importantly, judging by how bullish $NAHL remained through the end of July, I`d say StockCharts is not applying any crap filters to NASDAQ securities because it would have taken an awful lot of new highs from bond-like securities to keep it propped up like that. Using the entire exchange for $NAHL may work fine most of the time, but for now, it`s broken IMO."
https://yorickm.com/Message.php?pid=34281772

Author: rgearyiii
Subject: Russell 2000 Not Torpedoed
Date: 2/19/2014
"1. Preferred stock, structured products, exchange-traded notes, exchange-traded debt, warrants, rights, and OTC pink sheet and bulletin board stocks are all excluded by Russell, and are excluded by definition from the GTR1 universe.

2. Closed-End Funds, Exchange-Traded Funds and Unit Trusts are excluded with styp.a.

3. Russell includes REITs as long as they don`t distribute unrelated business income (a tax nightmare for otherwise tax-exempt investment entities); I simply include all REITs. ..."
https://yorickm.com/Message.php?pid=31125719
https://gtr1.net/2013/?~zgIWM_20140219_rgearyiii:l...

Command Translation [NHNLDiff]
step0: [[1*[Mkt Date as Ordinal; lag=0 days] - 1*[19731217 as market date ordinal 13271]] < 0 ? 3 : [Exchange Code; lag=0 days]] == 3
step1: [Security Type; lag=0 days] == 10,11,18,48
step2: [Mkt Days Since Security Opened; lag=0 days] >= 252
step3: [Rank by [Share Class #; lag=0 days] (Asc), grouped by [Permanent Company ID; lag=0 days], at step3] == 1
gtr1.net: GTR1 Backtester
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