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[Metastockusers] Re: importing COTR data into Metastock



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jose...I noticed the words "Active CoT futures data available (84 
contracts, 252 data files),as at Sat 08/Jan/2005" on the web page 
you cited in your reply...where can I get more information on how to 
subscribe to the service ?


CoT updates available weekly in MetaStock format,
for commercial, large speculators and small traders contracts.

--- In Metastockusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jose" <josesilva22@xxxx> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> Each CoT report data line has 129 information fields - MetaStock 
can 
> only handle six of those per data file.
> 
> If that's not enough to deal with, the CFTC changes the CoT data 
field 
> format now and then, adding new contracts (and/or changing the 
> contract names) on a regular basis, making the MetaStock data 
> extraction process even more cumbersome.
> http://www.cftc.gov/cftc/cftchome.htm
> 
> Extracting accurate and meaningful CoT data in MetaStock format is 
> almost a full-time job.
> 
> This is a summary of the latest available CoT data:
> http://users.bigpond.com/prominex/CoT/CoTlist.txt
> 
> 
> jose '-)
> 
> 
> 
> --- In Metastockusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "mattheim" <subscribe@xxxx> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > As a futures trader I collect and analyze the CFTC Commitment of 
> > Traders data on a weekly basis using Excel...is there an easy 
way to 
> > import this data in Metastock ? I have played around with 
importing 
> > Excel files into Metastock but have found it too cumbersome to 
be 
> > practical...





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