RE: [system-traders] quotes

[João Antunes Costa <Joao.Antunes.Costa AT cgd.pt>]

I personally no longer follow stocks all that much, but when I did, I used beancounter to get the data from Yahoo.

The main problem with it is stock splits and dividend adjustments. Altough some improvements have recently been made, Yahoo data is often not reliable regarding stock splits, so there's really not much beancounter can do about that.

Right now, I trade mostly in the forex market, and my broker (forex.com) provides me a data feed to work with, so that really takes care of the "data problem".

Anyway, I strongly recommend looking at paid data feeds. Very often we try to get "free" stuff, but then end up wasting a lot of our time trying to use the "free" stuff. If I was to accurately calculate how much time I spent dealing with "stock splits" and other data problems, when I used to work with Yahoo data, I quickly realize it would have been less expensive to simply buy the data.



-----Original Message-----
From: Flatman [mailto:flatman
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Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 10:21 PM
To: system-traders
Subject: [system-traders] quotes



I thought about using beancounter for downloading stock data for use with Geniustrader...
Is this the way most of Geniustraders get free quotes ?
Or is there something other/better ?

Thanks
Erik