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RE: From Fox



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I agree re the historical problem, Chris.
I suggested to Bud that he should choose PSM over QuoteMonster for its
simplicity, but QM does allow you to completely reload the data.

With PSM you can, of course, manually apply splits in downloader.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Christian Baude
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 4:33 PM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: From Fox
>
>
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 08:02:42 -0500, you wrote:
>
> > I can now recommend - If your looking for a software package that can
> > download data from Yahoo,  this is a good one. With a little help, in
> > tweaking the  extract utility.
> > I plan to pay the $50 for the lease program, it;s well worth it...
>
> Bud,
>
> The program is well worth it... BUT if you are a "quant", and a real
> stickler for accurate data, don't depend on YAHOO's data.  If you do,
> get the final day's data late, say after 8pm EST/EDT.
>
> Remember that once taken into MS the data is fixed, unless you
> periodically do an update from other sources (see Yahoo historical
> data as mentioned by Ton, or use Fund Manager's download capability).
>
> Enjoy.... I too like PSM..
>
> -= Chris ß =-
> Using FastTrack/FastRUBE/FastTools/Trade/EZPnF/PSM/MetaStock
> FastBreakPro/SpeedResearch/Agent
>
> Spell /type checked :)
>
>