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Holiday List Maintenance

You maintain your holiday lists through the Maintenance Menu. Selecting Holiday Lists displays the Holiday List menu. When you display the Holiday List Menu from the Maintenance menu, you can maintain holidays in any of a variety of ways:

images/aspen00090000.gif Insert Holidays into an existing holiday list.

images/aspen00090000.gif Delete Holidays from an existing holiday list.

images/aspen00090000.gif Create a new holiday list.

images/aspen00090000.gif Delete a holiday list.

With the exception of deleting a holiday list, these maintenance functions can be performed when a holiday list is assigned to an exchange in the exchange filter.

Although the program provides you with a variety of pre-set holiday lists, these lists are sent to you empty. The reason the lists are empty is that an incorrect date entered in any holiday list can adversely impact historical charts. If an incorrect date exists, you will not see intraday data on the incorrect date, and if the End of Day process occurs, historical charts will show a gap on the incorrect date. It is very important, therefore, that you know which dates an exchange will observe as holidays and that you enter these dates in the correct holiday list. There are many sources of information on holidays observed by U. S. and foreign exchanges. Please make a note of these sources and use them to build your holiday lists.

Futures Magazine (Editorial, Sales, and Marketing Offices, 250 South Wacker Drive, Suite 1150, Chicago, IL, 60606, (312) 977-0999; New York Sales Office, 160 Broadway, Suite 700, New York, NY 10038 (212) 608-6786) publishes a calendar every issue that contains domestic and foreign holidays. Additionally, Futures Magazine publishes an annual Trader's Calendar. Some trading houses also provide information on holidays.