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Thank you David for describing the method in great details. I will surely
try it the first thing.
Kalpana
>From: "David Bozkurtian" <dbozkurtian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Daily indexes
>Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:44:25 PST
>
>Kaplana,
>
>Not sure exactly what you are asking for, but I will assume that you want
>end of day historical data for the Dow and Nasdaq. If that is the case,
>click on the following link for the end of day data.
>
>http://chart.yahoo.com/d?s=^DJI
>
>Then once you are on that page, go to the bottom of the web page and click
>the "download spreadsheet format button". Depending on your web browser, it
>will either save the file to a disk (*.csv Comma Separated Values) file, or
>open MS Excel in your browser and allow you to begin working with the file
>directly from your browser.
>
>You need to do three things with the spreadsheet then. 1) Insert a column
>(A) and in the first row, type in "TICKER". Then copy the string/text
>"DJIA"
>in all the rows of column A. 2) Change the date format to mm/dd/yy.
>Finally,
>3) save the file as an MS Excel 4.0 format spreadsheet. Close the browser/
>or Excel.
>
>Next, you will need to import the file into Metastock. To do so, you will
>need to convert the data from MS Excel to Metastock format. Go to the MS
>Downloader and user the Convert function to do this. Here are the steps. I
>will assume that the file DJIA.xls is in the C:\TEMP directory, and that
>you
>Metastock data is in the C:\METASTOCK directory.
>
>1. Select Tools|Convert from "The Downloader"
>2. Source: File Type = Excel, Folder = C:\TEMP, Filename = DJIA.XLS
>3. Destination: Filetype = Metastock, Folder = C:\METASTOCK
>4. Click the Options|Destination tab and make sure "Create new files" is
>checked.
>5. Begin the conversion.
>
>This should get the EOD data into Metastock, and I know you can chart
>because you have an 80% success rate in your TA.
>
>Good luck.
>
>David
>
>
>
>
>
>From: "Lionel Issen" <lissen@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Daily indexes
>Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 08:59:17 -0600
>
>Kaplana:
>
>Metastock doesn't sell data. Its parent, Reuters does sell data.
>
>You can get excellent charts and daily information on the indices at web
>sites like wallstreetcity.com and at bigcharts.com
>Both these sites also allow you to put a number of indicators on the
>charts.
>Lionel Issen
>lissen@xxxxxxxxx
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Kalpana Kabra <kalpanakabra@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 6:23 AM
>
>
> > Can anyone help me ! I am a TA based in India . Is it possible to get
>DJIA
> > and Nasdaq charts plus daily data through metastock since that would
>help
>me
> > to analyse it. If yeas kindly explain the method in detail. Thanks in
> > advance
> > Kalpana@xxxxxxxxxxx
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