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Hi Jim and Rob,
Is the yahoo data of good quality? To what extend can we trust the data
downloaded?
Thanks,
Gregoire.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim Michael
> Sent: jeudi 29 octobre 1998 14:28
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: QuoteMonster [Was:Re: Yahoo data]
>
>
>
> Rob,
>
> Thanks for posting the detail. I have modified QuoteMonster Historical to
> use this new data source. QMH is a FREE perl script for retrieval of
> historical data for any number of tickers for the date range you specify.
> You may change the order of the fields and include only those fields of
> interest. I have not added code to reverse the date order but will be
> uploading a script to perform that function only.
>
> The QuoteMonster web page is at http://xmlworks.com/quotemonster/
> Send bug reports to quotemonster@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Rob Nagler wrote:
>
> > joachim@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Yahoo! just extended it's "free" information. Now you can
> >
> > Quite convenient, thanks. To save some clicking, here's how to
> > download a comma-separated list of IBM daily prices for all of 1991:
> >
> >
> http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ibm&a=1&b=1&c=91&d=12&e=31&f=91&g=d&q=q
> >
> > The form fields are defined as follows:
> >
> > s=Symbol
> > a=Start Month
> > b=Start Day
> > c=Start Year (two digits only!)
> > d=End Month
> > e=End Day
> > f=End Year
> > g=(d: Daily, w: Weekly, m: Monthly, v: Dividends)
> > q=(q: spreadsheet, <other>: html)
> >
> > It's in a weird format, because the file is in reverse order, i.e. end
> > record is first and first record is last. Easily remedied with a bit
> > of perl or whatever.
> >
> >
>
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