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Something to consider - QCollector and Quote.com.
If you have a subscription to Quote.com ($79/mon) you can use
QCollector - http://www.mechtrading.com/qollector/index.htm - to
download and save EOD or intraday data in MetaStock format. Quote.com
has a huge universe of symbols - stocks, indexes, futures, mutual
funds - and historical data going back years. QCollector makes it easy
to manage your MetaStock directories and will even do an automated
download for you at a specific time each day.
A new feature with QCollector 2.0 is automatic timed updates on
intervals as frequent as every 10 seconds. If you have a way to
automatically reload your MetaStock charts, such as with a macro
program, you can turn your EOD MetaStock into a close aproximation of a
real-time charting application. Some QCollector users are already doing
this with TradeStation. I'm still looking into ways of doing this with
MetaStock - any feedback would be appreciated.
Dave DeLuca
Tradeworks Software
http://www.mechtrading.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of scheier
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 7:20 AM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: automating Metastock
>
>
> Walter, in the world of XL programmers that you frequent, has
> anybody automated
> the process of downloading an internet EOD ascii data file
> into XL, order the
> columns to fit requirements, and merge it into current
> metastock directories so
> that the whole thing is reduced to a couple of WinScript actions?
>
> Mark Scheier
>
> The early availability of eod stock data from this site
> stockhistory.com
> (updated every hour) makes the possibility of running system
> scans that much
> earlier in the afternoon all the more attractive.
>
> Walter Lake wrote:
>
> > Hi Moshe and others who wrote.
> >
> > Sorry ... I don't know much about automating Metastock actions and
> > procedures.
> >
> > Metastock has recently released access to their program for
> users and
> > outside programmers, I'm sure that Ton or others can tell
> you more about
> > that. I don't know of anything that has been written that
> is available as an
> > add-on.
> >
> > Most of the work that I see is in Excel and VBA. Some VB
> stuff is available.
> > We are still in the very early stages of Metastock/Excel
> integration.
> >
> > There seems to be several groups of users: occasional
> users, stock scanners
> > and futures/index traders, etc. Each have their own trading system
> > development / testing needs.
> >
> > Now that the Y2K problem is over, most of the users that I
> hear from expect
> > Metastock to be a stable end-of-the line product that is
> just fine the way
> > it is. Very little effort is going into new indicator
> development and
> > traditional indicator systems. Other areas are being integrated.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Walter
>
>
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