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Mark,
What about data on demand from Reuters (for early price quotes).
Steve Karnish
Cedar Creek Trading
http://www.cedarcreektrading.com
----- Original Message -----
From: scheier <scheier@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 7:19 AM
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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