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From: JimH on 7 Jan 2010 09:51
TomYoung wrote:
> On Jan 6, 1:31 pm, SPP wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:48:02 -0600, "John Pollard"
>>
>> <8plus7...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Basically, I think, no.
>>> But if you can find a source that will provide a properly formatted "comma
>>> separated values" (.csv) file of the prices you are looking for; Quicken
>>> can import such a file.
>> Do you know of any good sites for these - paid or free please?
>
> You can create .cvs files for closing prices of most European equities
> by going to http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/ and working through the
> process, but it's one-stock-at-a-time so unless you're working to fill
> in a lots of historical information it would certainly be slower than
> just manually keying in the prices.
>
> Tom Young

When Intuit had quote problems I started usintg NetStock. It can import
prices, and export them to a csv file. I wonder if the authors would be
willing to modify it to use that web site instead of the current one. It
wouldn't hurt to ask. Here is the URL...

http://www.splitcycle.com/Forum/Default.aspx

--
Jim
From: John Pollard on 7 Jan 2010 11:11
JimH wrote:
> TomYoung wrote:
>> On Jan 6, 1:31 pm, SPP wrote:
>>> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:48:02 -0600, "John Pollard"
>>>
>>> <8plus7...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Basically, I think, no.
>>>> But if you can find a source that will provide a properly
>>>> formatted "comma separated values" (.csv) file of the prices you
>>>> are looking for; Quicken can import such a file.

>>> Do you know of any good sites for these - paid or free please?

>> You can create .cvs files for closing prices of most European
>> equities by going to http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/ and working
>> through the process, but it's one-stock-at-a-time so unless you're
>> working to fill in a lots of historical information it would
>> certainly be slower than just manually keying in the prices.

> When Intuit had quote problems I started usintg NetStock. It can
> import prices, and export them to a csv file. I wonder if the authors
> would be willing to modify it to use that web site instead of the
> current one. It wouldn't hurt to ask. Here is the URL...
>
> http://www.splitcycle.com/Forum/Default.aspx

I've used (and suggested Netstock) on a few occasions. Mostly, I think,
it's a neat little application. You can leave it running, and tell it how
frequently to get prices, and look at it whenever you want to see the
latest prices (the latest it can get).

One thing to beware of: the program always uses today's date for the .csv
file prices ... even when it knows that the prices are not for today (a
clearcut problem when you download before today's mutual fund prices are
available: Netstock will get yesterday's fund prices, with yesterday's
date ... but put today's date in the .csv file). I asked the developer if
he would fix the problem a couple of years ago ... but he demurred, saying
that he was avoiding outputtting invalid dates (huh?), and that the
program was free (meaning, I suppose, that I shouldn't expect a fix).

[It's been several months since I have used the product; it's possible
things have changed since then.]

--

John Pollard
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From: SPP on 8 Jan 2010 16:27
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:51:50 -0700, JimH <JimH(a)invalid.net> wrote:

>When Intuit had quote problems I started usintg NetStock. It can import
>prices, and export them to a csv file. I wonder if the authors would be
>willing to modify it to use that web site instead of the current one. It
>wouldn't hurt to ask. Here is the URL...
>
>http://www.splitcycle.com/Forum/Default.aspx


I tried using Netstock and managed to get stock prices. However when I
tried to obtain fund prices from UK market, I could not. I tried
pointing to yahoo uk and us. Where do I get the fund Symbols from
please?

From: JimH on 8 Jan 2010 18:29
SPP wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:51:50 -0700, JimH <JimH(a)invalid.net> wrote:
>
>> When Intuit had quote problems I started usintg NetStock. It can import
>> prices, and export them to a csv file. I wonder if the authors would be
>> willing to modify it to use that web site instead of the current one. It
>> wouldn't hurt to ask. Here is the URL...
>>
>> http://www.splitcycle.com/Forum/Default.aspx
>
>
> I tried using Netstock and managed to get stock prices. However when I
> tried to obtain fund prices from UK market, I could not. I tried
> pointing to yahoo uk and us. Where do I get the fund Symbols from
> please?
>
I see in the settings that you can already choose which source to use
for prices. I hadn't seen that before. Cool!

How about some fund names? that might make it easier to figure out how
to get the ticker symbols.

--
Jim
From: SPP on 9 Jan 2010 12:54
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:29:05 -0700, JimH <JimH(a)invalid.net> wrote:

>>
>I see in the settings that you can already choose which source to use
>for prices. I hadn't seen that before. Cool!
>
>How about some fund names? that might make it easier to figure out how
>to get the ticker symbols.


I tried Fidelity, Jupiter and JP Morgan in UK Funds. None of these
funds work. I tried Yahoo UK and US settings without luck. The equity
stocks seem to work ok.
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