ValiTrade
Instructions for downloading historical stock data.
To obtain historical data for the program (version 1.4) you can either manage your own data files or you can download data files through internet, the program is designed to directly accept files from the sites shown below.
There are several resources of historical data files available:
Swedish stock files can be found here.Data obtained from this site need no special instructions: When you have selected a stock and a graph is shown you can find a link to the data file at the end of the document. Click on link and save data in a file.
S & P 500 files can be found here and a direct link to the search page is here.
Select a stock and save data in a file.
Greek stocks can be found here and a direct link to the search page is here.
In order to get data from this site to work properly a special download procedure should be used:
1. Select stock of interest and time period, then submit request.2. Use your browsers "Select all" and then "copy" feature.
3. Paste data into a word processor or equivalent.
4. Save as a text file.
5. Open data file from ValiTrade with "Greek stocks" selected in data file format menu.
US stock files from Microsoft network (Internet Explorer only).You need a plugin for Internet Explorer to obtain data from this site (supplied free from Microsoft), this plugin will transfer data to Excel. From Excel save data as a text file and you are done.
US stock files from Yahoo.
Select a stock and save data in a file with a suitable name. Unfortunately Yahoo have changed the data format. An upadte is on the way!
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