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Re: Fundamental data downlaod via Yahoo ?



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Hi Stefan,
Do you happen to know if this P/E type data is also available for 
Australian stocks on ASX when using PSM Gold?




--- In amibroker@xxxx, tradeshark@xxxx wrote:
> Hi Tomasz,
> 
> I know, there have been severeal threads on the subject of 
importing 
> fundamental data into AB. Haven't found a convenient solution yet.
> 
> Now I came across another software ( Personal Stockmonitor Gold ) 
> which has no TA capabilities and poor charting, but is mainly 
> intended to monitor your holdings and download delayed and 
historical 
> data for US stocks from Yahoo and other quote-servers around the 
> globe.
> 
> After having tested this software, I found out, that with 
downloading 
> historical data from Yahoo, this program seem to retrieve also some 
> fundamental data per stock : Earnings per share, Dividend.
> 
> It seems, it re-calculates from these values, together with most 
> recent stockquotes, P/E ratio, dividend yield and Marketcap because 
> the latter values change every time when you download fresh 
intraday 
> data.
> 
> Since the data comes from Yahoo server, the question lies at hand, 
> whether this would also be possible within AB , since AB uses the 
> same quote source ( end of day download ).
> 
> I know, the original Yahoo historic csv files do not contain EPS 
and 
> Dividend figures, but somehow, this program must manage it to 
> retrieve them from Yahoo site.
> 
> PSM provides DDE link capabilities - maybe it's possible to link 
the 
> quote-retrieval with AB and have the fundamantals imported 
> automatically.
> 
> I know - sounds maybe a bit strange but anyway : Any ideas ?
> 
> see also www.dtlink.com
> 
> regards
> Stefan