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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=150190407-31081999>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=150190407-31081999></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=150190407-31081999>I trade the 
Australian market and have&nbsp;tried</SPAN> to create a "new" security - the 
DOW!&nbsp;&nbsp;<SPAN class=150190407-31081999>I sourced historical data from 
Yahoo and downloaded it into csv format.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=150190407-31081999></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=150190407-31081999>The fields were 
correct in the file:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=150190407-31081999></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=150190407-31081999>date,open,high,low,close (an example of the data 
appears below)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=150190407-31081999></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=150190407-31081999>
<P align=left><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><SPAN 
class=150190407-31081999></SPAN>990827,11198.45,11295.33,11021.15,11090.17</FONT></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face=Arial 
size=2>990826,11326.04,11393.48,11133.86,11198.45</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face=Arial 
size=2>990825,11282.38,11428.94,11106.31,11326.04</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face=Arial 
size=2>990824,11297.54,11404.88,11135.76,11283.3</FONT></P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=150190407-31081999></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV><FONT size=2><FONT 
face=Arial>
<DIV><SPAN class=150190407-31081999>I then used the downloader to convert the 
ascii data into Metastock format.&nbsp; As no ticker was listed in the file, 
when prompted I put in DOW.&nbsp; The conversion went happily along.&nbsp; The 
problem is that the following data appeared in the Metastock 
File</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=150190407-31081999></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=150190407-31081999>Date Open High Low 
Close Volume</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=150190407-31081999></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=150190407-31081999>08/25/1999&nbsp;11106.3&nbsp;11282.4&nbsp;11428.9&nbsp;11106.3&nbsp;11326&nbsp;0<BR>08/26/1999&nbsp;11133.9&nbsp;11326.0&nbsp;11393.5&nbsp;11133.9&nbsp;11198&nbsp;0<BR>08/27/1999&nbsp;11021.2&nbsp;11198.5&nbsp;11295.3&nbsp;11021.2&nbsp;11090&nbsp;0<BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=150190407-31081999></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=150190407-31081999>It appears that 
somehow the downloader has transposed the column data and copies the&nbsp;data 
to volume.&nbsp; My daily download data is in the same format with no 
hitches!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=150190407-31081999></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=150190407-31081999>Any suggestions 
would be gratefully accepted.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
class=150190407-31081999></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=150190407-31081999><IMG 
alt="Andrew :-)" border=0 
src="cid:150190407@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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