help hkwarrant

Title

hkwarrant -- Download warrant or warrant's information associated with the codes you entered from Eastmoney.com.

Syntax

hkwarrant codelist,
[options]

path(foldername) Specify a folder where output .dta files will be saved in

Description

hkwarrant is used to download warrant or warrant's information associated with a list of Hong Kong public firms from Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The generated warrant information includes deadline, warrant name, strike price, exchange ratio, etc.

code In Hong Kong, stocks are coded in five digits, not tickers as in the United States. Examples of codes and the names are as follows:

Stock Codes and Stock Names:

00001 CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.

00002 CLP Holdings Ltd.

80737 Shenzhen Investment Holdings Bay Area Development Company Limited

Note: The leading zeros in each code can be omitted.

path specifies the folder where the output .dta files are to be saved. The folder can be either existed or a new folder. If the folder specified does not exist, hktrade will create it automatically.

Examples

`"hkwarrant 1"'

The Hong Kong stock code has a length of 5. If you enter an insufficient length, it will be recognized as the left most digit of the stock code(eg input 1 equals 00001), and then hkwarrant will extract a list of warrant information associated with the codes you entered.

`"hkwarrant 1 , path(D:/temp)"'

It will extract a list of warrant information associated with the codes you entered, with output files saving to folder D:/temp/.

`"hkwarrant 25737 "'

Warrant information can also be obtained individually if the code is already known.

Authors

Chuntao LI

China Stata Club(爬虫俱乐部)

Wuhan, China

chtl@zuel.edu.cn

Xiuping Mao

China Stata Club(爬虫俱乐部)

Wuhan, China

xiuping_mao@126.com

Tianyao Luo

China Stata Club(爬虫俱乐部)

Business School, Xinjiang University, China

cnl1426@163.com