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Thanks for the tip, Jack. But people should know QuoteMonster is a
DOS program that requires also downloading and installing Perl,
whatever that is, it requires 20 MB of space.
The readme file with Perl says the Path environment variable
(whatever that is) needs to be c:\perl\bin. In order to do that you
need to go to Control Panel, then System, then the Environment tab.
Trouble is, in Win98SE, there is no Environment tab.
I ended up deleting everything as being a waste of time.
--- In amibroker@xxxx, Jack Weinberg <jacklweinberg@xxxx> wrote:
> Hello all:
> There have been a number of questions recently about
> obtaining end of day quotes, and assigning stocks to
> industries/sectors.
> I would like to make the following suggestion to those
> who are using the Windows platform (sorry Donald).
> There is a little know utility called "quotemonster",
> available for free download from:
> http://www.xmlworks.com/quotemonster/
> This utility will download end of day data from yahoo,
> as well as historical data.
> But which stock tickers to use? How do you allocate
> them to sectors (as in AmiBroker)?
> May I humbly suggest using the facilities of:
> www.marketguide.com
> This site offers a free utility called netscreen,
> which will allow you to download (into an excel
> format), a listing of over 9,500 stock tickers, with
> an indicator of which market sector it is in! This may
> be imported (quite easily) into AmiBroker, so that you
> have the entire NYSA, NASDAQ, etc. classified into
> sectors.
> This should get the new users up and running in a very
> quick manner.
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