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Al Taglavore
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> From: Alan Benjamin <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Quotemonster
> Date: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 2:36 AM
>
> 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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