Re: Importing Historical Stock Prices
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Posted by douglas sur on July 17, 1999 at 18:00:49:
In Reply to: Re: Importing Historical Stock Prices posted by Mark on July 05, 1999 at 12:57:20:
: : I am a new user of FM and am using Windows 98, Money 99, Netscape 4.61, : : and a 56K modem. I have been able to transfer my Money 99 stock portfolio : : to FM following the instructions provided by the FM help menu, however : : only the names of the stocks transferred, all the purchase information : : had to be input manualy and none of the historical market pricing or volume : : data transferred. Please advise how to create a 5yr history of daily : : market pricing and volume data charts from the Internet in FM. Money 99 : : does this with a push of a button for any stock so I am sure I have just : : miss read FM's instructions. : Hi Henry, : To retrieve historical prices, change the quote server under "Options/ : Internet Settings..." to "Yahoo (Historical)", and then click the : internet retrieve button on the toolbar. You will be prompted for a : date range to request prices. You can only obtain 200 quotes per request, : so you will want to break it up into several 6 month or so chunks. : Thanks, : Mark : -- : Mark Beiley : : Fund Manager for Windows 3.1x/95/98/NT : : I followed these instructions but after the import, the stocks with splits look all screwed up. It's like the splits were not handled. How can I rectify this?
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