Downloading yahoo EOD prices

Just when I wanted to ask about dumping Reuters EOD for some free quotes, up pops a relevant discussion. Cool!

I am running Metastock 8.01 offline.

MiniGrasshopper

"i use routers (installs with metastock) but get feed from yahoo so its free"

I'm interested. Please tell me more.

simsim

"I am using the smartdownloader from www.hypertrader.it
It is working fine. Downloads all the EOD data from yahoo and integrates seemlessly with the metastock offline."

Excellent! I’m glad to hear that. So you’d say it’s fairly idiot-proof? (This is the idiot speaking.) Ease of use is really a paramount consideration for me.

Anybody have experience with DCenter from traderssoft.com ($54) or HQuote Pro from http://www.hquotes.com?


TIA

 

like mentioned before: get MLdownloader - it is the best and pretty easy to use. Have only the highest recommendations for it. You can select which server you get it from and if you do not like yahoo then you can select another server (MSN, wallstreetcity, oanda, quotes - latter one is paid) Can output to ASCII and Metastock and both can be read by multiple trading software packages.

 

word of caution about yahoo data-it's not split adjusted(only adj.close price). not volume,open,high\low. don't know about dividend. and it get updated really late....

 

there is free tool from dukascopy, it is good for individual data.

http://freeserv.dukascopy.com/exp2/

or

http://freeserv.dukascopy.com/exp/

 

MLdownloader checks back with their own server and gives a message of stocksplits. But you can turn it off (like I did for ETF's and HLDR's).

Hope this helps.

 

Take a look at Quaccess. Stores all the downloaded data in a MS Access database. Also has a static adapter available for Wealth-Lab.

http://www.quaccess.com


- Greg

 

can anyone explain the format string that yahoo uses ? how do i get data for a date range ?

http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=MSFT&f=sd1l1ohgv&e=.csv

thanks.

 

For some more information on Yahoo data format, please see the following two links...

http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm

http://www.gummy-stuff.org/macros.htm


Thanks,

- Greg

 

FYI, candlestick charting added to new version. Very handy tool.

 

MLDownloader released V6.7 today