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I'm sorry, but I missed the site for Quotemonster.
Would you post it again?
Thanks,
Alan Benjamin
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> From: Jim Michael <genepool@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Quotemonster
> Date: Monday, October 12, 1998 5:40 PM
>
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, CMA wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks to Jim Michael for what may be the long-soughtsolution to
> > daily free download of data for MSPRO.
> > But a couple of questions about Quotemonster. Have you used it?
>
> Due to a little variation in how the data is formatted and the objective,
> there are really two applications - QM Daily and QM Historical. For your
> purpose you are referring to the Daily app, or to a previously written
> but as yet unpublised QM RealTime. I use the historical and daily apps
daily.
>
> > Is there any website with free EOD date with whichQuotemonsterworks?
>
> Yes, the default with the daily app is Yahoo. An untested assumption is
> that the data presented at the end of the day is reasonably close to the
> 'official' EOD numbers. No study has been made comparing these numbers or
> EOD historical data from the historical default site with any other data
> sources. If anyone does a test I would like to know of the results.
>
> > HOw much Perl or other programming do you have toknow to set it up?
>
> Zero, zip, nada :-) You should be able to create a ticker list (or use
> the default S&P 100 list) and start downloading quotes after you install
> the perl interpreter (this should mean downloading the perl binary
> distribution from perl.com, decompressing and running install.bat). See
the
> readme.now file and the script header for further info. Some other perl
> scripts for retrieving data from the Internet will be available so it
> would be a good idea to get Perl and install it.
>
> HTH. HAND.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
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