Downloading Quotes Automatically

DOWNLOAD-Yahoo Finance
Master Investor can retrieve current quotes for most major exchanges directly from the Yahoo quote server. Before utilizing this feature, it is useful to visit the web site and check to insure that the ticker symbols used are the same as those defined in Master Investor. This is particularly important if you are retrieving quotes from exchanges outside the United States or quotes for indexes such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Note: Ticker symbols for quotes for non-U.S. exchanges have a suffix consisting of a period followed by the abbreviation for the exchange (e.g., the symbol for Air Canada on the Toronto exchange is “AC.TO”). Go to http://quote.yahoo.com and use the Symbol Lookup to check for the correct symbol to use.

DOWNLOAD-Yahoo London
Master Investor can retrieve current quotes for the London stock exchange directly from the Yahoo UK quote server. Before utilizing this feature, visit the web site and check to insure that the ticker symbols used are the same as those defined in Master Investor. The ticker symbols used by this service have a period followed by a letter that indicates the exchange appended to the ticker symbol. For example, the British Airways symbol on the London exchange is expressed as “BAY.L”. You must include this notation in the stock ticker symbol defined in Master Investor to successfully download and import these quotes. NOTE: London exchange quotes delivered by this server are expressed in Pence. The program is configured to convert these quotes from pence to decimal Pounds Sterling.

Hint: Go to http://uk.finance.yahoo.com and use “Symbol Lookup” to check for the correct symbol.

DOWNLOAD-Yahoo Australia / New Zealand
Master Investor can retrieve current quotes for Australia and New Zealand exchanges directly from the Yahoo Australia quote server. Before utilizing this feature, visit the web site and check to insure that the ticker symbols used are the same as those defined in Master Investor. The ticker symbols used by this service have a suffix composed of a period “.” followed by an abreviation for the listing exchange. For example, the “Australian and New Zealand Banking Group symbol on the Australian exchange is expressed as “ANZ.AX”. You must include this notation in the stock ticker symbol defined in Master Investor to successfully download and import these quotes.

Hint: Go to http://au.finance.yahoo.com and use “Symbol Lookup” to check for the correct symbol.