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This Quote Monster deal sounds interesting. But, surely, at some point,
you've got to pay somebody something. Right?
Clint
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Michael <genepool@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 4:28 PM
Subject: QuoteMonster [Was:Re: Yahoo data]
>
>Rob,
>
>Thanks for posting the detail. I have modified QuoteMonster Historical to
>use this new data source. QMH is a FREE perl script for retrieval of
>historical data for any number of tickers for the date range you specify.
>You may change the order of the fields and include only those fields of
>interest. I have not added code to reverse the date order but will be
>uploading a script to perform that function only.
>
>The QuoteMonster web page is at http://xmlworks.com/quotemonster/
>Send bug reports to quotemonster@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jim
>
>
>On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Rob Nagler wrote:
>
>> joachim@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > Yahoo! just extended it's "free" information. Now you can
>>
>> Quite convenient, thanks. To save some clicking, here's how to
>> download a comma-separated list of IBM daily prices for all of 1991:
>>
>>
http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ibm&a=1&b=1&c=91&d=12&e=31&f=91&g=d&q=q
>>
>> The form fields are defined as follows:
>>
>> s=Symbol
>> a=Start Month
>> b=Start Day
>> c=Start Year (two digits only!)
>> d=End Month
>> e=End Day
>> f=End Year
>> g=(d: Daily, w: Weekly, m: Monthly, v: Dividends)
>> q=(q: spreadsheet, <other>: html)
>>
>> It's in a weird format, because the file is in reverse order, i.e. end
>> record is first and first record is last. Easily remedied with a bit
>> of perl or whatever.
>>
>>
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