Download MLDownloader documentation - Trading
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(“URL Properties” dialog) As you may have noticed from browsing the Internet many financial websites display information about a particular stock based on its symbol. Now suppose that you see that a company BigCharts has the following URL for Microsoft(MSFT) stock: http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=msft You may type in the URL part preceding the stock symbol http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb= in the Chart, First URL part in the dialog above. Click OK button and the default URL for displaying the charts will be changed to BigCharts. Sometimes there is URL continuing after the symbol, you may extract it and type in the second URL part. To set URLs to defaults click the “Use default URLs” button. Defining a custom ASCII file format To open the “Download Options” dialog, click on “Download->Options”. Then you have to click on the “Define custom ASCII file formats” button to display the “ASCII File Format” dialog. Page 21