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David Walton wrote:
>
> Boy, this quotemonster stuff is nice. I sure like free.
>
> So now the downside. Does anyone have a link to favorite site that they
> use to clean up stock splits? The data quotemonster is pulling from yahoo
> appears to have numerous errors (pointed out by the downloader's test
> capability) and I need the historical stock split data to correct it.
> Thanks for your assistance.
>
> ----------
> From: Fernand Levesque[SMTP:techpack@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Reply To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 11:40 AM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Quotemonster
>
> Al Taglavore wrote:
> >
> > http://xmlworks.com/quotemonster/
> >
> > Al Taglavore
> >
> > ----------
> > > 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
> > >
> > > ----------
> > > > 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
> Very interesting software, do I required do download the standard
> distribution interpreter before downloading the sofware for intraday
> and historicals.
> Thanks Fern
Downloaded all software and run the install.bat, but unable to run
the software. What have I done wrong ????. Would appreciate if someone
could walk me trough the installation .
Fern
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