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What we have in mind would be some tool that would allow you to
update to whatever format you please - java and web driven - and
that somehow connects to our database.
Look, all of this is just an idea at the moment, but it is not
the first time we have contemplated such a thing. There is a
local company that supplies economic data, but at approx USD150
a month, but then it updates spreadsheets, presentations etc.
automatically. Quite fancy, but not really that difficult to
do. Once we have the stuff in the database, to get it out in
Metastock/CSV/Excel/eViews/xxx won't be such a big issue. But
to properly distribute the stuff, incrementally and so on, is
where we have to apply our minds a bit. Also, we update FRED
manually once a week, as we do with a lot of data that we
gather. But for something like this, we have to automate it
and somehow keep data current in from Japan to the US.
Most of our work is done on Unix, so we can very very easily
automate stuff and do fancy number crunching and typesetting.
But a real pain then becomes all the proprietary Micro$oft
formats. We have done lots of work with Excel lately and have
good libraries to read/write out spreadsheet files and so on.
So we can steam ahead with this as well.
Analysis we already do on the local economic stuff, such as GDP
and so on, but once we have the weel rolling, we can add analysis
graphs, revision highlighters, time series projections and so
on to the lot. But this is the sweetener.....
Finally, living in South Africa..... We have this magnificent
telecoms monopoly that makes internet frightfully expensive. Then
we have problems with eCommerce. There are new rules, by the
credit card companies, that force you to go into a partnership of
sorts with a local bank if you wish to remit payments to that
country. So most of the guys such as paypal and worldpay simply
don't support us (or Mexico or whatever is too small to matter)
any longer. The local banks of course enjoy this, and you should
see some of the rates they charge.
The least of our worries is to get the holy grail as far as web
design is concerned.........but we'll have to address that as well.
Maybe, just to start with something, we must pick just five series.
What would you most like to see? Here is my selection. This will
just a test and for free, so please, anybody that is still reading,
what do you want in Metastock format.
My selection:
- US real effective exchange rate
- US GDP
- US M3
- US CPI
- US effective federal funds rate
Regards
MG Ferreira
TsaTsa EOD Programmer and trading model builder
http://tsatsaeod.ferra4models.com
http://www.ferra4models.com
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Andrew Tomlinson"
<andrew_tomlinson@xxxx> wrote:
>
> 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@x...]
> 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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