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Hi,
I use Metastock with Ozemail's ASX (Australian Stock Exchange) data.
http://www.3rotor.com/rotary/INVEST.HTM has my excel 97 macro for tidying up
this data into a format acceptable to the Metastock (V6.5) downloader.
Cheers,
Craig.
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>From: Richard Bone
>To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: Downloader and Ticker Names
>Date: Saturday, 18 July 1998 2:09AM
>
>
>
>I sent it to Equis support and they gave me a good answer.
>
>They told me to create a header record with the column names in <>
>eg. <name>,<ticker>,<open>,<close>,<high>,<low>,<volume>
>
>Using this technique you can not only add name but can also have the data
in
>any sequence you like.
>
>As a matter of interest I now have a 20 month database built from
StockWatch
>(ozemail) which I donwloaded for free. Of course I had to process all the
>data my self but that only took a few hours. I also get this data from them
>daily (for free) via their ftp site (after midnight EST).
>
>All of my database has correct names in it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of michael
>Sent: Friday, 17 July 1998 9:13
>To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Downloader and Ticker Names
>
>
>Richard
>I went into this with Paritech (my data supplier) and with Equis, but no
>result. The only data file supplying this for Downloader is for the
>USA companies. Or, at the time of my query. This may have changed in
>the meantime, but no-one seems to want to do it for ASX. If you or
>anyone has a local source of this file for Downloader I'd be glad to
>hear about it.
>Regard
>Michael
>
>Richard Bone wrote:
>>
>> I recently came across a data source for the Australia Stock Market
>> but the data files are in a format that the downloader doesn't like.
>>
>> I am able to reformat the data so that the Convert function works but
>> it doesn't take-up the Stock names, just the tickers. This makes the
>> data a little bit confusing because I can only refer to the stock my
>> ticker rather than name.
>>
>> Is there a way to take-up the names?
>>
>> ==
>> Richard Bone
>>
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