Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to ownload data from stockcharts.com. I assume it would take an extension. Has anyone tried to build the extension?

Thank you in advance

Bryce

Hello Bryce,

It's a chart site. What kind of data? Could you point me to the right page?

Hello Eugene,

Nice to communicate with you again. After you login to stockcharts.com, you can go the http://stockcharts.com/h-hd/?$BDI, for example. There you can view a html page with the past 2 years of data for the Baltic Dry Index. The data looks something like:

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They used to have a way to save the data as a excel spreadsheet, but that is now gone. It would great to have a way Wealth-Lab automating the login and data capture.

Do you have any suggestions?

Regards,

Bryce

Hmm, that seems to be a "paysite".

Why not download Baltic Dry from other already available sources like Bloomberg Free, QuoteMedia or IQFeed? They offer excellent coverage.

Bloomberg free is a great resource for the Baltic Dry Index. Do you have any suggestions for the NYSE Bullish Percent Index? I have not been able to find a source for $BPNYA other than Stockcharts.com.

You can create BPI yourself. I'm sure I've posted code for it on the forum already.

In the future, we're planning to put BPI in the Index Manager, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Yes, MS123 IndexDefinitions library is in the works already.

Hello Cone and Eugene,

I do have an indicator based upon code you provided. I need to spend some time to enhance the indicator, but that is my coding problem. However, it is an indicator and is too slow to generate for large data sets. Also when I change to a different symbol within the same dataset it recalculates again :-(. Hopefully when the IndexDefinitions are finished, I can just generate my own and be done. In the meantime, I have used the Stockcharts.com data, but that is also a pain.

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Of course, that will be solved with an Index Mgr Definition, but you could also do it yourself (today) by just updating an ASCII file once a day (and then use the ASCII symbol in your trading scripts).

This is what I have been doing. On a regular basis I update the values in a file and then load the symbol. This precludes looking at past data, but I have the data for about 5 years that I have maintained. It is a pain and I do not do it for more than a couple of symbols. This will be much more useful when the Index Manager is completed. It would be nice if we could apply some kind of user defined filter to the Index Manager. It is not so important for current data, because we can define a dataset that exactly is what we want. However, for looking into history, this is somewhat harder. The components for the Dow30 change as to the SP500, etc.