StockXloader - 3.0.5

StockXloader is a native Mac OS X application for fully automated downloading of stock market quotes and indexes to the technical analysis program ProTA or ProTA Gold from BeeSoft (http://beesoft.net) — effectively building an arbitrarily large database of tickers containing historical quotes for the open/high/low/close of each day!

It collects quotes from:

• the archives at Yahoo! Finance for any stock exchange in the world;
• the archive at Affärsvärlden (a Swedish business magazine) carrying quotes and many indexes for the Stockholm Stock Exchange.

The downloaded information is automatically imported into the database of ProTA. In the process, it informs ProTA which tickers are stocks, which are mutual funds, and which are indexes so that any new ticker is put into the right category by ProTA.

You can try out a full and completely uncrippled version of StockXloader for evaluation up to 60 days — try before you buy! Read more about StockXloader on the product page.

Features of StockXloader include:

• The system treats daily quotes and historical daily quotes of stocks, mutual funds and indexes.
  • For Yahoo, you can (1): download all quotes for today, even for hundreds of tickers!
  • For Yahoo, you can (2): download historical quotes for a list of tickers for many years back in time!
  • For Affärsvärlden, you download quotes for the whole Stockholm Stock Exchange for any number of days or weeks or months back in time!
• For Yahoo, StockXloader keeps two separate lists — "EU" and "US" — that you can fill with arbitrarily many tickers from any stock exchange in the world. Keeping two lists makes it possible to optimize each behavior and differentiate regions of stock exchanges.
• For European quotes, Yahoo enforces a restriction as to the amount of data that can be fetched in each "batch" — a maximum of 200 days per download. However, StockXloader has the ability to work around that limitation by automatically and seamlessly dividing it all up into as many periods as is necessary!
• For quotes from other regions of the world, such as Asia, the Yahoo conditions may vary, so you will choose to enter the tickers in either the "US" or the "EU" ticker list.
• For downloading a set of quotes for today from Yahoo, they enforce a restriction as to the number of tickers — a maximum of 200 tickers per "batch" download. However, StockXloader has the ability to work around that limitation by automatically and seamlessly dividing it all up into as many chunks as is necessary!
• For both Affärsvärlden and Yahoo, where the latter is further separated into "EU" and "US", StockXloader keeps track of the last date you successfully downloaded data (really got some data, not just attempted a download!). All this information is kept visually updated in a live table so you immediately know the status.
• For all dates of last download, you can back any of them as much as you need — days, months, years — for building a historical database!
• StockXloader provides you with very detailed progress information concerning how the download and conversion proceeds.
• For Yahoo historical quotes, StockXloader warns you about those tickers that do not have any data or that do not have as recent quotes as the most recent ticker has.
• After all the files have been downloaded, they are processed to fit the import specifications for ProTA and the character set used in Mac OS X. The resulting information is assembled into a single file to be automatically imported into the database of ProTA.
• Saturdays and Sundays are automatically exempted from any downloads, so no time is wasted for such attempts and you will never be bothered by messages about missing data for those days.