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jiml · Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Posts: 7

Hi Adrian,

Thanks for the YGQD software. Do you have any plan in the near future to support this MetaStocks format?

Thanks again,

James

adrian · Site Admin Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 965

I would definitely like to, but for this I will have to use the libraries developoed by MetaStock and I'm not sure what the licensing terms are. If anybody out there knows more about this please let me know.

Adrian

jiml · Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Posts: 7

adrian · Site Admin Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 965

I'm not actually interested in writing a metastock module myself, but rather use the metastock dll that Metastock license as part of their sdk. They offer this to third party developers, but I don't know under what sort of license model, or price. I will contact them at some point, or maybe somebody else has this info.

Adrian

davcbr · Joined: 13 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

I was briefly interested in the Metastock SDK, until I found out it would cost $1000 for an independent user who was not interested in saleable products.

They have a detailed questionnaire to fill out, asking your intentions. You will then be called and interviewed. The price will then be given, and who knows how that is determined.

It is really a moot point though, as it is extremely easy to adapt the output of your downloader to yield data files that can be quickly converted by Metastock's downloader program:

You need a title line exactly as illustrated below -

<ticker>,<per>,<date>,<open>,<high>,<low>,<close>,<vol>

and then the data in the appropriate columns -

GLD,D,6/1/2009,96.47,96.76,95.63,95.73,17921200

Under "Conversion Options" - Destination tab check "append data" and "replace matching dates"
Also check "traverse destination folders"

If you are adding new files, you will need to uncheck the "taverse" and check "New File" and specify the folder it goes into.

Hope this helps.

adrian · Site Admin Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 965

Thanks for the info.

BTW, probably dumb question, but what is <per>?

Adrian

davcbr · Joined: 13 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

That is "period" which can be "D", "W", or "M"

alepatmartin · Joined: 05 Sep 2009 Posts: 1 Location: argentina

Hi friends

Last weekend I started using Yahoo Downloader and converted .scv files to metastock format. Thanks a lot !!!

marcovth · Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 4

There is a little DOS command line program called asc2ms.exe
which converts from csv to metastock format.

Google it, and you might still find it.

marcovth · Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 4

Is there an option somewhere to run a command-line command after the data is downloaded and processed.

If so, it would be very easy to integrate yloader with asc2ms.exe

http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/MetaStock-Data-Conversion-Command-Line-Utils-Download-11606.html

4Solver · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 5

I use asc2ms.exe to batch (as in DOS .bat files) convert Downloader ASCII output to MS format. First, I run the Downloader in a .bat file which downloads about 40 directories full of ASCII data from Yahoo. Then I run another .bat file which uses asc2ms.exe to convert each of these files into MS format. The reason for the large number of directories is that I'm DLing about 4000 symbols and I adhere to the old 256 maximum for MS. That makes the data compatible with all the SW I use.

If you're interested, I can upload my .bat files but they are specific to my directory structure. There was a bug in asc-ms.exe's command-line structure which I never could solve so I just worked around it. It takes about 10-15 minutes to do the ASCII DL and about 2 hours to do the MS conversion, but both can be done in the background, without any human interaction except for starting the .bat files in Command Prompt windows.

Metastock's own converter is faster but it is interactive and thus labor-intensive.