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Walter,
Here are some other options for free data in ascii (prn) format. What their
source is and how clean it is i'm not sure but i notice that volume and
open interest is 0 on some days. I don't understand why this happens and i
see it alot even with Primate my subscription vendor.
http://www.teggen.com/dataidx.asp
or FTP:
ftp://ftp.teggen.com/contracts
-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Lake <wlake@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Metastock bulletin board <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 7:23 PM
Subject: downloads
>Hi Dale
>
>Thanks for your email
>
>By synchronous, I mean that the code does not proceed past the statement
>until the transfer is complete. Asynchronous transfer refers to issuing the
>request then moving on to the next line of code. Synchronous is the simpler
>code but I believe is slower because concurrent transfers don't occur.
>
>As far as my own download needs, my commodities downloader stopped working
>and I need to download historical and end-of-day Corn contracts etc. C=
>corn, 0= year 2000, K = May
>
>Contract Months are
>Dec (Z), Mar (H), May (K), Jul (N), Sep (U)
>
>C0H 990312 2500 2516 2500 2500 1551 9328 5
>C0K 990312 2552 2560 2546 2552 25 683 5
>C0N 990312 2584 2596 2576 2582 206 2343 5
>C0Z 990312 2580 2584 2580 2582 176 2061 5
>C9H 990312 2170 2176 2154 2156 4570 5128 5
>C9K 990312 2244 2246 2220 2226 33167 134420 5
>C9N 990312 2296 2304 2274 2290 10713 102617 5
>C9U 990312 2360 2366 2340 2350 924 24124 5
>C9Z 990312 2440 2444 2424 2426 10047 70082 5
>
>either from
>http://router.minot.com/~bohl/index.html
>http://router.minot.com/~bohl/history/990312
>
>CH99,d,03/12/99,2170,2176,2154,2156,,
>CK99,d,03/12/99,2244,2246,2220,2226,,
>CN99,d,03/12/99,2296,2304,2274,2290,,
>CU99,d,03/12/99,2360,2366,2340,2350,,
>CZ99,d,03/12/99,2440,2444,2424,2426,,
>CH00,d,03/12/99,2500,2516,2500,2500,,
>CK00,d,03/12/99,2552,2560,2546,2552,,
>CN00,d,03/12/99,2584,2596,2576,2582,,
>CZ00,d,03/12/99,2580,2584,2580,2582,,
>
>or from http://www.jackcarl.com/ascii/dailyhist.asc
>
>
>The ".igy" file listed at
>http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/excel/webquery/samples.htm
>
>only contains a few commodity markets (not corn) at
>
>http://cnnfn.com/markets/commodities.html
>
>
>So this is what I have to set up.
>
>Other commodity markets can be added once the initial template is
organized.
>
>Best regards
>
>Walter
>
>
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