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Alex,

Did Yahoo make an addition?  It looks like they now provide the option of
downloads or have I not had enough coffee yet?

~Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Matulich <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, November 24, 2001 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: EOD data frustration


>Colin West wrote:
>>As there are so many free EOD sources it also amazes me that TS
>>doesn't take advantage of them. If you're up for a bit of (lower
>>level) coding, take a look at UMDS (http://www.uniserv.com),
>>and interfacing it to yahoo, for example. Perhaps neoticker
>>(http://tickquest.com) may be a better choice than TS for your
>>application. Just some thoughts.
>
>Those are interesting but still require some sort of subscription
>data service, in which I pay for real-time data that I don't need.
>
>By the way, you can get historical stock data on yahoo.  Their
>default page at http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv doesn't offer
>spreadsheet downloads , but I created a page at
>
>  http://unicorn.us.com/yahooquotes.html
>
>that makes Yahoo disgorge all the historical data you want in Excel
>.csv format, which can also be imported to TradeStation.  Hope it's
>useful to you guys.
>
>Trouble is, that's just stocks and indices, not futures.
>
>--
> ,|___    Alex Matulich -- alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>// +__>   Director of Research and Development
>//  \
>//___)    Unicorn Research Corporation -- http://unicorn.us.com
>

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