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I still remember from my Engineering days: "If it ain't broke don't fix it". The number of times I've seen even in large organisations computers not working properly on a Monday Morning is horrendous and it happens because people have loaded brand spanking new updates over the weekend and...

getting Free EOD -- US Stocks -- works for UK as well Here's a step by step method of getting EOD (FREE) data for US -- (and UK) into your computer. It also shows you a very simple way of getting large tables from the Web into EXCEL without having to cut and paste via the inbuilt but often...

Anybody using this -- if so how do you like it and does it produce more winning trades than the standard version. Thanx -K

This might work (EOD data-- haven't done any research yet on realtime stuff) http://tradestation.org/ I'm not sure where you are getting your metastock data from but for testing you can get stuff from yahoo -- this at least will check the validity of the data format for inputting to...

Hello -- So far I've been impressed with MY copy of version 9. Problem 1 -- haven't been able to re-create -- makes no difference whether I append the 2nd stock to the ist chart or have totally separate charts. problem 2 -- haven't encountered either. problem 3 -- I don't have the RAM problem...

If you have some Windows software then try running it under WINE. I have a metastock and ASCII downloader which retrieves free EOD data. This works fine under WINE. OMNITRADER (EOD version) which I use as my TA analysis software also works. I haven't tried Metastock V9 yet but will get round...

Free EOD data --- update Please note that the MQ program referred to in my posts has now been merged into another program HQuote Pro. Otherwise all settings are the same as previously described. The new program has Auto export to ASCII which is useful if your software doesn't support...

How to set up FREE US EOD data (pt 4) OK we are nearly at the end -- you only need to have performed the previous steps once to set up data collection . In daily operation the program is automatic and doesn't need to be set up again. There's one more thing to do before we can start our data...

How to set up FREE US EOD data (pt 3) Now we need to convert this file to metastock format. There are lots of ways of doing this but the easiest is to use a tool obtainable with FREE trial (you only need to create the inital metastock directory once so a free trial is fine). Download...

How to set up Free EOD Data (Pt II) OK we've got a spreadsheet containing all the symbols we need for the DJ 30 index and stocks. We need to edit this and save it as a CSV (Comma separated variable file) Proceed as follows. 1) Delete the ist 2 lines and the last line. so col 1 row 1 should...

How to set up Free EOD (pt 1) I'm breaking this post up into several smaller one's as it is quite a long one. Hopefully this will be of some use to people wanting FREE End of Day Data going back several years. Here's an easy way to get FREE EOD for US data -- You'll need MS EXCEL and this...

http://www.paritech.co.uk use this link -- not the US one (.com)

Does that mean you ACTUALLY have to CALL to cancel----I would not be very pleased about being billed automatically for something without having signed an agreement FIRST. I'm sure that as far as the UK is concerened if this practice is true then it's very near the legal mark --- UNLESS of...

Often use the A14 -- especially coming out of Harwich docks. The Stretch between the end of the M11 (Cambridge) and Huntingdon must be the Speed Camera Capital of the world -- I counted at least 7 of the new type to say nothing of those sneaky 'specs one's. Fortunately as is usual on that...

just a little tip for any of you wanting to get the Full version of metastock 9 End of Day for the upgrade price without having to install a previous version. I bought my copy at a reasonable price ( GBP 106 inc VAT and delivery) from http://www.paritech.co.uk I needed a new laptop which I...