First question is why 10000 symbols?
How many of those do you actually follow, can you review in a day?
What is your Internet connection speed?
What else is running on your box?
If you feel you do need that many, can some be broke out to a weekly update?
Another approach would be to update the ones you are actually trading, have positions in, and the potential ones you are tracking to put on a position. When they are done, download the rest while you are performing your EOD analysis.
For comparison I use to do about 4k symbols in 20 minutes with Downloader with a 4CPU 3ghz and 2GB ram.
Might help to check you swap file size and defrag your disk.
IMHO a little more time focused one the ones you actually trade or are watching would be better. Now I mostly trade Forex and a select group of ETFs. Life is a lot simpler and a lot more profitable.
You also may need to weed out the bad symbols. Create an explorer that captures the last data date for each security. If any are more than 2 days old, they may need their symbols update or just be deleted. I also use this date check on my everyday explorer runs are part of a qualification. No need to look at anything that is not current.
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--- On Tue, 12/15/09, rickbw <rickbw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: rickbw <rickbw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Lengthy Download
To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 11:17 AM
Currently my laptop is taking 2+ hours to download my daily price updates. The number of symbols is around 10,000 and what seems to be taking the most time is the portion of the update called "Building Collection Report" (last part of the process). I have attempted to turn off Norton Antivirus to see if that was slowing the process and it does not seem to have any effect.
My system follwos:
Windows Vista
Intel Core 2 Solo Processor (1.4 GHz, 800 MHZ)
4GB Memory
250 GB HDD with about 120 GB free.
Should it take this long? Any ideas if it shouldn't on how I can improve the time? It is frustrateing waiting this long each evening :(
Rick
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