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Old 06-16-2009, 03:25 PM   #1

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Using Free Quotes or ASCII with Multicharts?

Can any of our resident Multicharts gurus *cough cough TAMS!!! cough* point me in the right direction on how to using free quotes with the platform? TSSupport says go to yahoo/msn finance... but beyond that i haven't found anything on how to actually get the data into the platform.

I've seen the ASCII walk through and that would work but where do I source the ASCII files? I'm canceling my tradestation data feed but would still be able to use a pseudo tradestation environment for analysis.

Obviously i'm screwed for intraday stuff, but for end of day equity analysis this would still be possible no?

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Re: Using Free Quotes or ASCII with Multicharts?

You can get EOD from Yahoo, MSN, Google, etc.

unfortunately OpenTick is not in business anymore, therefore no free intraday feeds is available any more.


To get your free quotes...
Open QuoteManager, make sure the appropriate boxes are checked:





You will need to create new symbols with Free Quotes as datasource.


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Dude... you're the man. Thanks so much!
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Re: Using Free Quotes or ASCII with Multicharts?

Hy guys,

i find that from many stocks or financial indices

the tickers are different between google and yahoo.

how could i setup the right code for both?

About futures like dax, mini sp500, where are the right ticker
on freequotes?
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Many thanks for the tips!
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Re: Using Free Quotes or ASCII with Multicharts?

Hi tams

i'm starting to learn your ways .... I was just getting ready to say ..., dude just send me the info and then, i said ..... I know he's going to say, surf the forum. Ha,ha

anyway, i'll follow the instructions here and see, if it helps.

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Re: Using Free Quotes or ASCII with Multicharts?

Hi TAMS

TAMS

I looked into your instructions - thanks!!! When I first saw FreeQuotes, it didn't occurr to me that it represented some underlying data providers.

For whatever reason, the data providers remain off-line. Tried the regular restart of QM; loaded a symbol etc.

Do you know what I'm missing? Please don't say EOD data!!!

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You can get EOD from Yahoo, MSN, Google, etc.

unfortunately OpenTick is not in business anymore, therefore no free intraday feeds is available any more.


To get your free quotes...
Open QuoteManager, make sure the appropriate boxes are checked:





You will need to create new symbols with Free Quotes as datasource.


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Re: Using Free Quotes or ASCII with Multicharts?

at the Data Sources window,
click on the "Activate" button. (top right corner)


yes, the data is EOD.

you can enter the symbol in the command box,
and the chart will come up.
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