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Hi Mark,
Nice to get the good feedback. I'm glad you got it working.
Also I'm always happy to find anyone who is NOT just writing code in Metastock Formula Language and C++.
I think Metastock is great, but there are also quite a few things I want to do for my own trading system development that are related to enhancing Metastock's functionality in various ways (other than just writing or modifying formulas in the Metastock Formula Language).
I'm not a skilled programmer myself, I use VBA and PowerBasic rather than C++, and I'm not sure how interesting this is to most of the general readers, but if you (or anyone else who uses VBA &/or PowerBasic) wants to continue this topic further and share ideas (especially with regard to MSX, the MDK, interfaces with the Internet, or Excel & other software), then please let me know, either via this site and/or directly to my personal email, t4tonym@xxxxxxxxx
Cheers,
Tony M.
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----- Original Message ----
From: markumansky <no_reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 3:35:51 PM
Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: Downloading prices ... and lots more ... for free
Hi Tony,
It took me a while to get it working but once I got it, it works
perfectly! Thank you very much for your advice and assistance.
Mark
--- In equismetastock@ yahoogroups. com, Tony M <t4tonym@xxx > wrote:
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> Dear Markumansky,
>
> Step 1.
> I assume that you are familiar with Excel. If not, then you need to
learn to use Excel first.
> Open an Excel spreadsheet and go to: Data | Import External Data |
New Web Query
> If you have Excel 2002 or later version, then in the Address input
box you should see: http://www.msn. com/
> Change this to the URL of whatever you want to use as your data
source, for example www.finance. yahoo.com
> and then click "Go". If you are connected to the Internet, you will
then see the web page on the small screen.
> Whatever you see on that small window, you can then import directly
to Excel.
> So, if you went to Yahoo Finance Home, enter a stock symbol & "Get
Quotes" and see the stock data in the small window.
> When the web page has been downloaded, just click the "Import" button.
> Excel asks what cell in the spreadsheet you want the data imported into.
> Select somewhere (e.g. "A1") and click OK.
> The spreadsheet now contains, in text format, all of the text data
from the web page that you were looking at. Very nice.
> You now have the main building block for a downloader for anything
you want
> ... prices, fundamental data, whatever.... all for free !! The
only thing you have to do now is to automate it so don't have to keep
pressing buttons each time for each stock.
>
> Step 2.
> Once you have Step 1 working OK, then:
> Excel | Tools | Macro | Record New Macro ... OK.
> Now repeat Step 1, but this time you are recording everything as an
Excel macro.
> When the download from Step 1 is complete, stop the Excel macro
recorder.
> Go to Excel Tool | Macro Visual Basic Editor
> You can now see the Excel VBA code that was used to perform
everything from Step 1. The code is very short.
> In the line that starts "URL; you will see the URL that you
chose, and also the symbol of the stock that you chose.
> If you are using Yahoo, this will be (for example):
> "URL;http://finance. yahoo.com/ q?s=mot" (if, for example the stock
you were looking at was MOT).
> Now you can either change the stock symbol if you want more of the
same sort of data, or change the URL if
> you want data from somewhere else. With some simple programming (DO
loops) you can now set this up.
>
> Step 3.
> If you can already write VBA code for Excel, the next part is
straightforward programming (even for me, and I am not a programmer).
And if you don't know VBA, its easy to learn - either use the online
tutorials from the Microsoft website, or get a beginners book on
Visual Basic for Applications. (Note that you do NOT need to learn the
full version of Visual Basic, but only VBA for Excel). If you can
already do some simple programming, then one of your friends who knows
VBA should be able to show you enough in about an hour so that you can
get started with the rest of this step).
>
> Replace the stock symbol with a variable, and then write VBA code to
create a (DO or FOR or WHILE) loop containing a list of whatever stock
symbols you want, use the variable to successively input the items
from your stock symbol list one by one, and add instructions of where
you want to write the results out to. And basically that's your
downloader. It runs like any other macro in Excel.
>
> Tip: If I remember correctly, I think that when you try to download
stock
> price data from Yahoo and you want to do it in blocks of a number of
> stocks at a time, there is a limit of about 200 stock symbols per
> block. It's not much of a problem, but useful to know about it in
> advance so that you don't get frustrated when your block of 220 stock
> symbols won't download properly!
>
> I made and used a downloader like this for a few years before I
bought Metastock. (THat was when I tried to do everythingin Excel).
Nowadays I prefer to get good quality price data for Metastock from a
daily data subscription service, but I still use my Excel "free
downloader" for automated downloading of a whole range of other
sharemarket data, fundamentals of all kinds, etc. Very useful.
>
> The only thing it costs is the time to learn to write a couple of DO
loops in VBA for Excel. And that's a great investment for anyone
serious about trading ! Getting data is easy. Figuring out what to do
with it after that is the harder part :-))
>
> Best wishes,
> Tony M.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: markumansky <no_reply@xxxxxxxxxx s.com>
> To: equismetastock@ yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2007 1:56:08 AM
> Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: Yahoo Prices
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> --- In equismetastock@ yahoogroups. com, Tony M <t4tonym@ > wrote:
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> > You can download stock prices & other data fairly easily into Excel
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> for free,
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> > and then from Excel to Metastock, if that is a useful alternative
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> for you.
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> > Tony M
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> >
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> > ----- Original Message ----
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> > From: ptc_man3 <ptc_man3@ .>
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> > To: equismetastock@ yahoogroups. com
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> > Sent: Monday, June 4, 2007 10:27:21 PM
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> > Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: Yahoo Prices for free?
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> > I'm sure that there are some free programs that do that but the only
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> > one I know and use is MLDownloader but you need to pay for it. It's
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> > not expensive, I think it's around $50. I bought mine a couple of
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> > years ago so I really can't be sure.
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> > regards
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> > --- In equismetastock@ yahoogroups. com, markumansky <no_reply@ .>
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> wrote:
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> > > Does anyone know how to download yahoo stock prices into MS9 for
free?
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