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Right, well, let's start with downloading all US equities. You have to have
a basic understanding of how the StockBrowser works for this. All this
program does is take information off publicly available (and known!) pages.
So for starters, there must be pages showing this data in one way or the
other. If there are, and Ivo van Thiel (the author of the progam) has found
it, well, he's most likely added it to the StockBrowser (if he hasn't, you
can add it yourself. Read the included Word file with explanation on how to
do this). For a list of all the pre-defined sites, take a look under the
tab 'Download groups'. The leftmost column shows all the sites that
StockBrowser automatically recognises. Then look in the second column. In
here, you see the 'Download groups' that are predefined: look at the group
'US update' for example by clicking on it. The right column now fills with
the Web pages that are scanned when downloading this group. If you see a
source on the left and want it to be included in the download group, select
the source on the left, the download group in the middle, and click on the
'Add source' button. To actually download the selected group, make your
internet connection, select the desired group ('US update' in this example)
by selecting it in the combobox next to the 'Group update' button at the
top of the screen. You can also add your own groups with any of the sources
you see in the leftmost column.
Chances are, you've been downloading a lot of US equities without actually
knowing it. Check this by selecting the 'Stock' tab, click open the
combobox 'Category:' and selecting 'USA'. The names you see in this
combobox are simply different views on all the stocks the StockBrowser
knows. You can also select the '[All]' category in this combobox; don't
enter any filter (and pressing 'OK'), and you'll see ALL the stocks,
options, futures, warrants etc. the StockBrowser knows. Sometimes you may
not be sure what the ticker symbol (or name) is for a particular equity.
Let's say you're looking for Minnesota Mining and aren't sure whether
StockBrowser knows of it yet. Press the 'Find Stock' button and enter
'minnesota' (+ press OK). You'll then see it appear.
I'll leave it at this for now, as you might have found what you were
looking for. If not, you can also mail me privately on m.jonker@xxxxxxxxxx
Hope I helped you. Cheers, Mark.
mchristo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 08/18/98 09:06:14 PM
Please respond to metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: (bcc: Mark Jonker/Everest)
Subject: Re: Using Downloader/ASCII files to update stockbrowser
Mark,
Thank you so much for your information about downloading from Stockbrowser
to Metastock. Still working on it..
New Question: I would like to put my own stocks in, or download all us
equities.. (maybe this is too much).. so far, no luck.. could you please
explain in detail how to put my own list of stocks in, as you did so well
regarding the downloading?
Thanks in advance,
RB
-----Original Message-----
From: m.jonker@xxxxxxxxxx <m.jonker@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: Using Downloader/ASCII files to update stockbrowser
>Yes it certainly can. Go to the tab 'Settings', then the tab 'Export
>format'. Fill out as follows:
>Header line: <TICKER>,<DTYYMMDD>,<HIGH>,<LOW>,<CLOSE>,<VOL>,<OPEN>
>Extension: .prn
>Date format: align tis with the International Settings of your computer
(as
>this is how MetaStock reads it)
>Field separator: This should also be the same as your international
>settings
>Max symbol length: 14
>Symbol: first position
>Synoniem: keep empty
>Date: 2nd
>Open: 7th
>High: 3rd
>Low: 4th
>Close: 5th
>Volume: 6th
>Click back on tab 'Stock', select a list ([Watch] is default, you can also
>select [All] with no filter if you want)
>Then click button 'Export All'. Select 'Userdefined format', click 'Export
>to a single file' and anything else you find relevant.
>This is a one-time only set up. With the tab 'Settings', 'Daily Export',
>you can set StockBrowser up to export certain lists each time you do an
>update.
>Hope this is enough for you!
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>mchristo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 16-08-98 04:40:24
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>Please respond to metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>cc: (bcc: Mark Jonker/Everest)
>Subject: Re: Using Downloader/ASCII files to update stockbrowser
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>Can Stockbrowser downloaded info be exported into Metastock?
>If so, Please explain how.
>
>Robin
>-----Original Message-----
>From: m.jonker@xxxxxxxxxx <m.jonker@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Saturday, August 15, 1998 3:48 PM
>Subject: Re: Using Downloader/ASCII files to update
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>>Try StockBrowser.
>>http://www.xs4all.nl/~ithiel
>>This exports directly to a format the downloader can read. Simply start
>>StockBrowser, click on the "Update" button, wait, exports automatically,
>>start downloader, click convert and you're done.
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>>cma6@xxxxxxxxx on 08/14/98 09:31:12 PM
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>>Please respond to metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>cc: (bcc: Mark Jonker/Everest)
>>Subject: Using Downloader/ASCII files to update
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>>Has anyone figured out how to
>>1) get free end-of-day data from the net;
>>2) import that ASCII file into Excel;
>>3) manipulate the data in Excel to produce a file,
>>4) which Downloader can use to update MSPRO?
>> 1) and 2) should be quite easy; but 3) and 4) could be tough.
>> CMA
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