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Creating a New Holiday List

Occasionally, you will find it necessary to create a new holiday list. For example, under normal circumstances, all U. S. exchanges observe the holidays in the American Holidays list. However, in the Spring of 1992, the basement of the Chicago Board of Trade flooded, so the CBOT closed. To accommodate these CBOT closure dates, you would need to create a new holiday list for the CBOT because adding the dates to the American Holidays list would affect all the exchanges to which the American Holidays list is assigned.

Creating a new holiday list is easy because the program enables you to copy an existing list to define a new list. This enables you to take advantage of known holidays. For example, to create a holiday list for the CBOT, you can copy the American Holidays list and then add the dates on which the CBOT was closed.

To create a new holiday list, follow these steps:

1. Display the holidays list.

Type .HOLIDAY and press b.

2. Select the holiday list containing the holidays you want to copy (For an empty list, select No Holidays.):

images/aspen00090000.gif Move the mouse pointer over the set you want to select and click the left mouse key.

images/aspen00090000.gif Use the arrow keys to highlight the set you want to select and press b.

A Holidays menu is displayed; the title of the menu indicates the holiday set you selected.

3. Select Create a New Holiday List.

The List Name --> prompt is displayed.

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4. Type the name you want to give to the list you are creating.

5. Press b.

The new holiday list is inserted into to Holidays List menu.

After you create a holiday list, the new list can be assigned to any exchange in the exchange filter. For more information on assigning a holiday list to an exchange, see Assigning a Holiday List to an Exchange.