here is the thing. Having MT return a consistent value is a technical issue and I can deal with that. However, deciding which # is right for float seems to be completely arbitrary. For example, I checked multiple sources for the same symbol and got wildly different values. For example symbol HSCS:
Yahoo Finance: 56.19M
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HSCS/key-statistics?p=HSCS
Finviz: 8.34M
https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=HSCS&ty=c&ta=1&p=d
MarketWatch: 8.77
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/hscs?mod=mw_quote_tab
Webull: 38.1M
At least for HSCS 2 of them were close. For others, they are all completely different. Of course on something like AAPL, all 4 are identical
How do I validate?