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MG
The key to making this really interesting would be in one-click (or
automatic) updating. Economagic has self-updating Excel files for some
series but you still have to go through linking that with Metastock. The
amazing thing to me is that data providers who already have the data (e.g.
Reuters) don't offer it as part of their retail packages. But then this is
the company that shut themselves out of the futures market by not offering
adjusted continuous contracts, so maybe not such a surprise.
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: MG Ferreira [mailto:quant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 1:10 AM
To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: Economic Data for Metastock
Hi Andrew,
We update our internal database on a weekly basis with this data from the
Fed. We have developed all manner of scripts to import the data into our
database, and use our own tools to view and manipulate it. But if there is
sufficient interest, we could also develop scripts to export this Fred stuff
to MS format, taking care of the quarterly problems etc, and upload it to
our website where you can access it. We also regularly import lots of stuff
from South African vendors, if there is any interest in that. We are
working on some java code that read/write stuff in MS format, pretty similar
I guess to mansoors' utilities, which we probably will use in the interim.
Regards
MG Ferreira
TsaTsa EOD Programmer and trading model builder
http://tsatsaeod.ferra4models.com http://www.ferra4models.com
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "MS" <marketstudent@xxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > What is the most efficient way of getting economic data into
> Metastock?
>
> The best site I have found for US economic data is the St. Louis Fed
> database, which also has a number of interesting market price series
> like various bond yields available for download in .csv format.
>
> Check them out here: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
>
> One problem, however, is that some of the more interesting series
> like GDP are compiled on a quarterly basis which means you will need
> to do some creative spreadsheet work to get them into a monthly MS
> file format.
>
> If you want more history than the Fred database provides then the
> Economagic site is also usually worth taking a look at:
> http://www.economagic.com/
>
>
>
> --- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Andrew Tomlinson"
> <andrew_tomlinson@xxxx> wrote:
> >
> > What is the most efficient way of getting economic data into
> Metastock? I am
> > thinking of the common US and global economic statistics that move
> markets,
> > like the monthly non-farm payroll numbers, etc. Most of the series
> can be
> > found in one form or another on the official websites (e.g. the
> BLS) but the
> > formats are not always friendly. I don't mind paying a small
> monthly amount
> > if I could get it cleanly and efficiently into Metastock format.
> >
> > Thanks for your thoughts
> > Andrew
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