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Right you are Jim. There are so many ways to do this. Quote Monster is an
excellent
program and combined with a macro program like EZ Macro can do the job.
Fred
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim Michael
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 2:26 PM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Downloading Free Quotes
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> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Fred.J wrote:
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> > Thanks Javier. PSM is a nice program. However I am trying to
> find a nice
> > and
> > easy way to download (and save) intraday data 'directly' into Excel for
> > charting and
> > calculations (poor man's version of real time data). PSM will
> save data
> > into a designated file and Excel can later access the file and
> import data.
>
> There are OLE extensions for Perl. You could modify QuoteMonster to
> retrieve your quotes (add a timing loop and sleep() between retrievals),
> then use OLE to update your spreadsheet. Search dejanews for
> sample code.
> Pretty easy stuff. See http://xmlworks.com/quotemonster/
> http://xmlworks.com/pf1/ and http://www.perl.com/ Everything is free
> and open source.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
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