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Hi
All these downloaders are at the mercy of the data
providers. There seem to be problems with their data
from time to time. In particular, a lot of the Yahoo
data has been late or missing recently. Last week
historic data for UK stocks was only provided for the
2nd, 4th, and 6th Dec, although Yahoo has now added
the missing days. If you download historic data with
Mldownloader, etc. while there are gaps, the database
will obviously have these gaps. At least with
Mldownloader it does seem to work well once you have a
complete and up-to-date database, because it does not
use historic data for daily updates. The same does
not seem to be true for MetaQuote. I am nearly at the
end of the trial period and it has only worked with UK
stocks on about four occasions. I may just stick to
manual downloads of Yahoo's daily data and the MS
Downloader. This seems to be reliable and its totally
free.
Regards
Robert Penfold
--- ericvonbar <no_reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Be aware this program has some nasty side effects.
> If messed up a
> lot of my data files and even refused to load data
> for some dates.
> Make a back up of your data before trying it!!.While
> it has a lot of
> nice features it also has a convoluted interface.
> There are better
> and faster downloaders out there. Too bad - because
> this program
> would be nice if it did not have so many bugs.
>
> Eric
>
> --- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Gary
> <gary.keeney@xxxx>"
> <gary.keeney@xxxx> wrote:
> > I've just tried out ML Downloader on Yahoo EOD
> data, and it seems
> to
> > work really well. I just tried it with a simple
> download to an
> ascii
> > file, but it also seems to have some additional
> functions like
> > directly updating MetaStock data files and filling
> in gaps in the
> > data (like if you don't download for several
> days).
> >
> > A question for other users here - I'm actually
> trying to use
> > MLDownloader to access Quote.com (QCharts/Lycos
> Finance) historical
> > intra-day data, and while it accesses Yahoo just
> fine, it cannot
> seem
> > to contact my Quote.com account. That's not very
> well documented
> in
> > the MLDownloader, has anyone else figured that
> out?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
>
>
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