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-function ReadQuotes() {
-  # Retrieve historical data for each ticker symbol
-  FS = ","
-  for (stock = 1; stock <= StockCount; stock++) {
-    URL = "http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=" name[stock] \
-          "&a=" month "&b=" day   "&c=" year-1 \
-          "&d=" month "&e=" day   "&f=" year \
-          "g=d&q=q&y=0&z=" name[stock] "&x=.csv"
-    printf("GET " URL " HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n") |& YahooData
-    while ((YahooData |& getline) > 0) {
-      if (NF == 6 && $1 ~ /Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec/) {
-        if (stock == 1)
-          days[++daycount] = $1;
-        quote[$1, stock] = $5
-      }
-    }
-    close(YahooData)
-  }
-  FS = " "
-}
-function CleanUp() {
-  # clean up time series; eliminate incomplete data sets
-  for (d = 1; d <= daycount; d++) {
-    for (stock = 1; stock <= StockCount; stock++)
-      if (! ((days[d], stock) in quote))
-          stock = StockCount + 10
-    if (stock > StockCount + 1)
-        continue
-    datacount++
-    for (stock = 1; stock <= StockCount; stock++)
-      data[datacount, stock] = int(0.5 + quote[days[d], stock])
-  }
-  delete quote
-  delete days
-}
-function Prediction() {
-  # Predict each ticker symbol by prolonging yesterday's trend
-  for (stock = 1; stock <= StockCount; stock++) {
-    if         (data[1, stock] > data[2, stock]) {
-      predict[stock] = "up"
-    } else if  (data[1, stock] < data[2, stock]) { 
-      predict[stock] = "down" 
-    } else {
-      predict[stock] = "neutral"
-    }
-    if ((data[1, stock] > data[2, stock]) && (data[2, stock] > data[3, stock]))
-      hot[stock] = 1
-    if ((data[1, stock] < data[2, stock]) && (data[2, stock] < data[3, stock]))
-      avoid[stock] = 1  
-  }
-  # Do a plausibility check: how many predictions proved correct?
-  for (s = 1; s <= StockCount; s++) {
-    for (d = 1; d <= datacount-2; d++) {
-      if         (data[d+1, s] > data[d+2, s]) {
-        UpCount++
-      } else if  (data[d+1, s] < data[d+2, s]) {
-        DownCount++
-      } else {
-        NeutralCount++
-      }   
-      if (((data[d, s]  > data[d+1, s]) && (data[d+1, s]  > data[d+2, s])) ||
-          ((data[d, s]  < data[d+1, s]) && (data[d+1, s]  < data[d+2, s])) ||
-          ((data[d, s] == data[d+1, s]) && (data[d+1, s] == data[d+2, s])))
-        CorrectCount++
-    }   
-  }       
-}
-function Report() {
-  # Generate report
-  report =        "\nThis is your daily "
-  report = report "stock market report for "strftime("%A, %B %d, %Y")".\n"
-  report = report "Here are the predictions for today:\n\n"
-  for (stock = 1; stock <= StockCount; stock++)  
-    report = report "\t" name[stock] "\t" predict[stock] "\n"
-  for (stock in hot) {
-    if (HotCount++ == 0)
-      report = report "\nThe most promising shares for today are these:\n\n"
-    report = report "\t" name[stock] "\t\thttp://biz.yahoo.com/n/" \
-      tolower(substr(name[stock], 1, 1)) "/" tolower(name[stock]) ".html\n"
-  }
-  for (stock in avoid) {
-    if (AvoidCount++ == 0)
-      report = report "\nThe stock shares to avoid today are these:\n\n"
-    report = report "\t" name[stock] "\t\thttp://biz.yahoo.com/n/" \
-      tolower(substr(name[stock], 1, 1)) "/" tolower(name[stock]) ".html\n"
-  }   
-  report = report "\nThis sums up to " HotCount+0 " winners and " AvoidCount+0
-  report = report " losers. When using this kind\nof prediction scheme for"
-  report = report " the 12 months which lie behind us,\nwe get " UpCount
-  report = report " 'ups' and " DownCount " 'downs' and " NeutralCount
-  report = report " 'neutrals'. Of all\nthese " UpCount+DownCount+NeutralCount
-  report = report " predictions " CorrectCount " proved correct next day.\n"
-  report = report "A success rate of "\
-             int(100*CorrectCount/(UpCount+DownCount+NeutralCount)) "%.\n"
-  report = report "Random choice would have produced a 33% success rate.\n"
-  report = report "Disclaimer: Like every other prediction of the stock\n"
-  report = report "market, this report is, of course, complete nonsense.\n"
-  report = report "If you are stupid enough to believe these predictions\n"
-  report = report "you should visit a doctor who can treat your ailment."
-}     
-function SendMail() { 
-  # send report to customers
-  customer["uncle.scrooge@ducktown.gov"] = "Uncle Scrooge"
-  customer["more@utopia.org"           ] = "Sir Thomas More"
-  customer["spinoza@denhaag.nl"        ] = "Baruch de Spinoza"
-  customer["marx@highgate.uk"          ] = "Karl Marx"
-  customer["keynes@the.long.run"       ] = "John Maynard Keynes"
-  customer["bierce@devil.hell.org"     ] = "Ambrose Bierce"
-  customer["laplace@paris.fr"          ] = "Pierre Simon de Laplace"
-  for (c in customer) {
-    MailPipe = "mail -s 'Daily Stock Prediction Newsletter'" c
-    print "Good morning " customer[c] "," | MailPipe
-    print report "\n.\n" | MailPipe
-    close(MailPipe)
-  }
-}