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Ronald McEwan wrote:
>
> Mark wrote:
>
> the problem I've always faced with these reports is how to quickly
> bring this info into an indicator. Have you actually created a macro
> or
> something to grab this data from the CFTC's website and process it
> quickly into a file to be read by your chart program? Getting it there
>
> seems to be the hassle. And I find that if you can't make the study of
> the
> report a consistant, habitual practice, its value as a tool dimishes.
>
> Mark, sorry I dont have a quick easy way of getting this data from the
> ascii file. I did it manually and put it into excel (and it was a
> hassle). I was always interested in this study and wanted to explore it
> for myself . The two week delay in getting updates is a problem as the
> recent decline in the markets has shown.
>
> Ron
I had a recollection that Pinnacle had some COT emphasis. It turns out
that they have a cot historical database as well as a program that says
is "A window driven data manager that allows you to select fields of
data from any one of the various databases offered by Pinnacle Data Corp
or from your own ASCII files and combine into one large ASCII output
file. What isn't mentioned in this listing is whether they have current
downloadable commodity/cot data.
I seem to recall that one of the data vendors was linked with Larry
Williams longer term courses which include looking at COT data. It
might have been Genesis?
Finally here is a website that shows an indicator version of COT. Its a
subscr. site but only $5/mo. http://www.orc.ca/~blees/futures.htm
[no rel. with any of the above except as a customer of Pinnacle once for
their continuous contract data. Nor have i used cot data in my
analysis.]
Conrad Bowers
PINNACLE DATA CORP
460 Trailwood Ct
Webster NY 14580
Tel# - 716-872-0845
Fax# - 716-872-1597
Toll Free# - 800-724-4903
pinnacle@xxxxxxxxxx
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