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Richard,
I use http://www.quote.com for all of my news and data for MetaStock.
You can have emails sent to you during the day with up-to-the-minute
news releases on the companies you are tracking, plus track your
portfolio p&l. I usually update MetaStock once a week, and find that
www.quote.com suits my needs for ticker price histories. It costs me
$25 a month (I like having their charts (simple) available during the
day). Their lowest package costs $10/month, which I think you'll find
to be the cheapest of any service (for being able to download stock
ticker price histories). Their format is comma-delimited which
MetaStock supports through the Downloader menu option "converter".
Also, I do all of my trades through http://www.ndb.com, which is National
Discount Brokers' web page (they were previously at http://pawws.com).
This web page has some news & charting (simple) tools available for
customers.
Alex Szarka
szarkaa@xxxxxxx
P.S. If you go this route, download the stock (& indexes) price data
through an ftp (file transfer protocol) software, instead of your web
browser. A shareware ftp is available at http://www.ipswitch.com (make
a very good ftp product). Quote.Com's ftp site on the web is
ftp://ftp.quote.com (you will need to use the ftp software to get the
speed benefit and be able to pass your user id and password to
quote.com).
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From: Richard Backlund[SMTP:richard@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, June 23, 1997 11:52 PM
To: metastock-list
Subject: getting data from web
Hi
I am a new subscriber to this mail list and new user
of Metastock. I have notices some reference to downloading
data from web sites and have two questions:
1) What are the URLs of the available sites and which
ones do you recommend?
2) Do you use any special software or are there any
special procedures required to download so Metastock
can read the data?
Thank You
Richard Backlund
richard@xxxxxxxx
richard@xxxxxxxx
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