Recent content by rap2win

I believe you, Hittfeld, and I hope it proves useful to someone. I use the standard version of Amibroker, and I recall that Amiquote was restricted to a certain number of symbols till you pay for it. So I think that is what you will have to do before you can maintain a full Tokyo stocks EOD...

As I mentioned before, MSN is not in AB's list of data sources, so I don't think Amiquote would get if for you. If it will, that's cool and I will stand corrected. But don't forget that you will need to pay separately for a fully functioning version of Amiquote if you didn't already buy it.

MSN Money is OK Hi, I don't trade Tokyo anymore, but when I did I found MSN Money did work as a free daily and historical Japan stocks data source for Amibroker if I downloaded the data with third-party software. I used MLDownloader to download and create a Metastock database, and then loaded...

In my experience, no. Refer to previous messages in this thread for other opinions.

Also true, of course. We all have different requirements, and everyone has to do their own calculations to decide how much they should pay. It's still handy to know that there are a couple of sources of free EOD data that will do for folks whose sophistication needs are low. In most cases...

My experience almost precisely. There is no way to match the trades he claims to make. I have a good real-time data feed, and a glance at the screen immediately after some of his chat-room trade alerts showed a substantially different price. I also found some info that indicates Mr Backus has a...

Sorry, I don't get here very often, so this reply is well late. Downloadquotes.com was not free. I never did sign up with them, because they were unresponsive. Now they're out of business, presumably at least partly because a service provider does not gain and retain clients if its customer...

I used to do this using Yahoo (free) and MLDownloader software (not free). I found the main downside with Yahoo was that they were slow to update their lists of stock symbols to include the new and drop the delisted. There were a couple of decent paid data services mentioned in this thread already.

That's handy, but on a free subscription they appear to offer no data at all for the LSE and only 30 days of historical data for a limited few others.

True enough. With Yahoo you pay nothing and what you get is not perfect, but it is serviceable unless you need perfection. In which case, you'll need to pay.

Oh, it goes way back. You can also get it from MSN Money. I'm not sure how much data you need. If you have a lot to download, there are tools for it. PM me if you need help. Cheers.

Aaaah...OK. In that case, Skyline, you might want to consider Yahoo Finance. You can download historical data for most markets from there free, and I have few complaints about it.

Excuse my ignorance, but what's OHLCV?

Why short term? Jackie, If you don't have the time to commit to short-term trading (monitoring news, research, and spending time at your screen etc), you might want to ponder long-term stocks investing as an alternative. To pick up on what you should buy and how to select your own buys, take...

What, no one at all in here has used the downloadquotes.com EOD data service?