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I have been using Quotes.com for some time now. $10 a month for stocks and
mutual funds. History going back many years. I use a shareware FTP server,
WS_FTP, to download text file for the exchanges I am interested in, and use
downloader to convert the files. Other than the fact they have been down since
thursday night, I have been pretty satisfied.
Tim Lumley
> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 00:39:23 -0400
> From: Ron Schuck <nite_owl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Quotes Plus
>
> To Whom It May Be Of Interest:
>
> According to the web site explanation, there isn't an export feature for
> Power Investor. On another note, I presently have Quotes Plus and have
> not had a problem with it. The information that I received was the fact
> that the old version ( 1.1 ) will continue to be used only until
> December of this year, at which time you will have to upgrade or quit
> the service. Now this is where I have a problem, it is not the fact of
> an update, but the fact that it is going to be the only option
> available. It doesn't matter that the present version does everything
> that I need, and I really wouldn't use any of the new and improved
> features of version 2 of Quotes Plus. I simply use MetaStock and use
> Quotes Plus as a source of data.
>
> I am looking into several other programs, which have possibilities. They
> retrieve the data on the varoius stocks via the internet Quote Servers,
> and export to a MetaStock file. Aside from the cost of the program, (
> all of which are below $100 ) the daily downloads are FREE !! I am
> presently looking at one which will do automatic End Of Day export in
> MetaStock format.
>
> So far the down side comments are: You have to enter the symbols
> yourself, ( definitely time consuming, even if it is only once ), the
> time required to download several thousand quotes, and finally the size
> of the daily download ( seems to be around 6K per hundred ).
>
> If there is any interest, I will update what I find out and also would
> appreciate additional input.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Ron
>
> Bill Blank wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if there is a downloader for Investor's Alliance
> >
> > quotes to Metastock now that Quotes Plus is raising it's monthly
> >
> > fee 60%???????
> >
> > Bill
> >
>
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