Recent content by RichardDale

Why not get a cheap analysis package such as AmiBroker and you can create any manner of reports yourself. If you do not have the funds to do that, perhaps it's time to consider whether you have sufficient capital to trade. If you don't, that's OK, and you can consider free alternatives while...

Without knowing sources or what the information represents (which exchange/source it comes from) you cannot draw any conclusion from it. Clearly there are 3 different data sets with 3 different series of parameters - all of which are unknown.

It's impossible to recommend a data vendor based on the above data. You need to determine why each data provider is different. Look at: a) Source - what source is used b) Does the data represent an actual trade, a mid-point of a bid-ask spread, bid or ask, low-volume after-hours trading that...

Google search for things like: on demand market data xml market data Xignite netdania Reuters have a snapshot service Interactive Data has a snapshot service Is this for your own personal use or commercial use?

Since you want daily data progressively updated intraday, you'll also need to define the frequency of updates? i.e. do you simply want to query it on-demand and how many securities per minute would you need etc. if you want a subset of securities coming down, how many do you need any how often...

What periodicity do you seek? (tick feed, 1 min, 5 min, daily etc.) Which markets? Do you want a delayed streaming service of ALL symbols or just a subset? Or do you just want to be able to query-on-demand a symbol at a time?

AmiBroker is a very competitively priced platform compatible with multiple data vendors for EOD, delayed and real-time data. Can be programmed with scans to perform what you require, and also has backtesting to, so you can develop mechanical trading systems. Worth a look - AmiBroker -...

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What timeframe of data do you require (end-of-day daily, intraday, tick)? Which trading/charting applications do you use? What format are you seeking (ASCII, MetaStock)?

You need to backtests with delisted data. Such historical data is rarely available freely, but is available from a handful of paid data vendors.

Norgate/Premium Data has a few options in this area... please feel free to contact me.

Graham Kavanagh has a great reputation for producing quality code: http://www.aflwriting.com/

The reason it is expensive is because the demand for such information is low and the costs to process are high. Reuters, Bloomberg, Zacks, Morningstar etc. make a business out of doing this type of thing and have teams of dozens of people to interpret the financial statements (eg. to strip out...

I think you'll find it's contained within the SEC announcements as part of the regular reports

Yahoo does not supply dilution factors (aka split factors). Different Dilution factors are applicable at different points in the stock's history - a single dilution factor does not exist for the history of a stock.