Re: [system-traders] quotes

[Flatman <flatman AT swing.be>]

* João Antunes Costa <Joao.Antunes.Costa
AT
cgd.pt> wrote:
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| I personally no longer follow stocks all that much, but when I did, I used beancounter to get the data from Yahoo.
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| 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.
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| 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".
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| 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.
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Thanks Joäo,

Your answers come _very_ fast ...

I didnot think getting pathces that fast !

I'll try further with beancounter ... maybe I'll switch to a paying service later , but right now, beancounter is really nicely written .

Erik