Recent content by c_steam

The only way to make money in the markets is for someone else to be losing money. Surely we must take a strong line to promote KtoA as a source of naive punters to benefit the rest of us? ;) (only joking, honest..............)

Addendum - Yahoo will give you data back to Jan 1 2003. (although I only checked this on one stock) If you have the patience you could do it manually, one stock at a time, the data will download in .csv format, you can open this straight into excel or lots of other things.

You can get history from yahoo. Not 10 years though (answered with out looking) but anyway why back test that far?? Lots of VBA code out on the net to automate the import of the data. You just need a mechanism to list your tickers (exel or access would work) and write the code - I'm using...

I've done one as part of my scanning system, written in MS Access VBA. I'm a tightwad, so wrote the system to "do the maths" on end of day data which is loaded automatically from Yahoo. I then get a tabular output which, in access, you just click on the column headers to rank, so i can look at...