It is necessary to run the program StockUpdater. This can be found at
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~darrend.
Contact:
Darren Dzikowski
184 Douglas Glen Heath SE
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T2Z 2N1
email: dar_dz@hotmail.com
Stock Updater downloads historical stock data from the Yahoo! Finance™ and Wall Street City™ websites based on a list of stock symbols and a date range provided by you, the user. However, for this program, you must use only Yahoo! Finance.
You need to create a list of stocks for StockUpdater. First you need to add records to the table. Go to the menu Add|Manual Add to add a single stock, or to Add|Manual Sym to add a list of stocks from a .sym file. This updates the contracts table.
The next step is to create a file for StockUpdater. Choose a filter, being sure that minutes is 0, for StockUpdater works only with daily files. Create csv will then create a csv file for StockUpdater. Run StockUpdater, and press ImportList. This imports the csv file into StockUpdater.
You may run StockUpdater daily. Choose a download directory. Choose end date as today, and start date a few days ago. When StockUpdater finishes, go back to Patterns, and press Add|Load csv. This loads the files created by StockUpdater into san files. You may now view charts of the updated san files. The new data updates the previous data.
Be sure you use the registered version of StockUpdater, as the shareware version does not have the functionality required by Patterns.
