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On Fri, 14 May 2004 15:22:57 -0500, you wrote:
>yes, but this is just like the tools from hquotes.com. It has 2 problems
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>1) Stocks need to be eyeballed. Can't run radarscreen on 3rd party metastock
>data. Granted, I want to eyeball it before placing trades, but it's nice for
>the radarscreen to scan 7000 symbols and give me like 100 to look at.
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>2) Speed - all these tools get data from yahoo or somewhere else via http
>requests. 7000 http requests, no matter how you cut it takes a lot of time.
True.
Luckily I'm only intrested in a few 100 high volume charts :-)
Besides of that I don't care to much about the speed.
It's a nice nightly task :-)
>If you get just a file per exchange, you can get your download done in <1
>minute vs. something potentially a lot more.
It's just one day per file...
Lycos allows upto 10 years back.
>Now only hope eoddata.com doesn't go away 8 )
Now only hope you also write some tool to import MetaStock data into GS :-)
Happy trading,
Tony
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tony" <acjhopst@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Omega-List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:53 PM
>Subject: Re: EOD stock data made EZ
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>> The speed certainly looks good.
>> Personally I use http://www.trader-tools.com/ qNavigator
>> I just open the MetaStock files as '3rd party directory'
>> I bought it a while back and it's great to get years of historical data
>for
>> free.
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>> Stock Quotes Express also allows intraday (1,5,10,20,30,60min)
>> I've this one just 1 day so I can't really comment on it.
>> But it looks a nice tool to fill some gaps in your data.
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