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Product Description:
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, futures or options 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 a list of Yahoo tickers, you can download historical quotes for all those tickers many years back in time! And you can also download all the quotes for today, even if there are hundreds of tickers!
- 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 three separate "region" lists — "EU", "US" and "A" — that you can fill with arbitrarily many tickers from any stock exchange in the world.
- For non-US 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 current-day quotes 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 Yahoo and Affärsvärlden, StockXloader keeps track of the last date you successfully downloaded data for each region (really got some data, not just attempted a download!).
- 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, what is currently being processed, missing dates, empty tickers, error conditions etcetera.
- For Yahoo historical quotes, StockXloader warns you about those tickers that do not have any data or 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 assembled into a single file, which automatically gets imported into the database of ProTA.
- It verifies fields to find out what the latest date is where you really got some data, and all dates are converted into a format that is independent of your preferred date format in ProTA. The format is also independent of your chosen decimal separator (period or comma).
- For Yahoo quotes, the full security names and type codes are obtained from the ticker files, so that ProTA can create new ticker symbols automatically in the right categories with full security names.
What's new in this version:
- Fixed compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
- You can now specify security type in the ticker lists, by prefixing the ticker (symbol) with a single character followed by a colon. This means that StockXloader now supports any security type that ProTA recognizes, such as options and futures. The character shall be one of the supported Type Codes in ProTA's Universal Text Importer, i.e: S, M, I, F, O, B, G.
If you do not specify a security type, StockXloader will, just as before, automatically categorize tickers into stocks, indexes and mutual funds if they abide by the standard syntax used by most tickers at Yahoo. By specifying a security type, however, you can override the automatic categorization, and it is now the preferred method. - Delivering the 'full security name' to ProTA is now supported also for YahooCurrent and not just for YahooHistorical. So, in the Yahoo ticker files, you can enter both a 'full security name' of your choice and its 'security type' — StockXloader will now, for both YahooHistorical and YahooCurrent, insert those information fields into the relevant columns in the file to import into ProTA. The effect is that when ProTA shall create new symbols, it will automatically get the full security names and place the securities into the right categories. Thus, you automatically get the proper names into the database without having to enter each name in a dialog, and it works also for futures, options and bonds!
- Affärsvärlden completely changed their site 2005-05-20. StockXloader has therefore been adapted so it works like before.
- The number of tickers from Affärsvärlden has grown steadily, and many short-lived items (lasting only a few months) have recently been included. These may for instance be convertibles, derivatives or subscription right certificates. In order for you to be spared from having to create new tickers for these items and "cluttering" your database, StockXloader now skips tickers that have a space followed by any of [BT or TO or TR or KV or a string that contains a number].
- Minor improvements/enhancements and bug fixes.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2.3 or later
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Featured Reviews
Works under 10.5 - Version: 3.4, 11/27/2007 05:13PM PST
whytoi
Great support. Works under 10.5.1 now and I can now upgrade my main Mac to Leopard. :)
Just works - Version: 3.3.4, 10/28/2007 04:03PM PST
whytoi
Stumbled on this AppleScript based program after finding ProTA for technical analysis. This worked really well in combo with ProTA for my level of need. Although individual stock entry process by manual entry in both StockXloader and ProTA is somewhat tedious, but it's well worth the routine given the data feed is free, and covers more international data than some paid subscription service. I highly recommend this program and ProTA if your technical analysis need goes no finer than 20mins delayed daily time scale.
One word of warning though. The current 3.3.4 version is incompatible with Mac OS X 10.5 as noted by the author. An updated version will be introduced at some point in the future. Fingers crossed and maybe some urging would help this process along.
One word of warning though. The current 3.3.4 version is incompatible with Mac OS X 10.5 as noted by the author. An updated version will be introduced at some point in the future. Fingers crossed and maybe some urging would help this process along.
Great software - Version: 3.3.1, 1/26/2007 04:46PM PST
G5macker
This program works great with ProTA (now available for OSX) stock analysis program. It allows quick downloads of stock, mutual fund and option quotes.It works with out any problems and the developer listens to the customers. I bought this program and use it. I think it is great.
