Download Settings

The following screenshot presents download options settings available in this software:

• "Data Output Folder" shows the location on the hard drive where the data files will be stored. Make sure that you set a valid folder for "Historical Data Folder" - use "Browse" button next to it.
• "File extensions" box allows to set a custom extensions for the files. Note that the file name will always be the same as the symbol. Thus if you want to keep data for the same symbol in different formats, like 1-min, 5-min and 15 min, you may assign different extensions for each time-frame, i.e. ".dat5" for 5-min, ".dat20" for 15-min and so on. This will ensure that the data will not be overwritten by the subsequent download.
• "Date Format", "Date Separator" and "Time Format" customize output for the date.
• "Servers" box will switch between 3 currently available servers.
• "Reset to defaults" will bring all the settings to the original state just like when the software was initially installed.
• "Connection Speed" setting optimizes retry timeout request delay depending on your internet connection speed.
• "Data Range" selection box allows to specify how long back in time historical quotes should be retrieved
• "Time Interval Type" selection box allows specifying intraday 1,5,10,15,20,30 minute or 1,2,4 hour data format and daily or weekly format. Note that intraday values only appear when "Data Range" is set to 20 days or less.

Special formatting options include:

• "No time export" - time column will be excluded from the output
• "No date export" - date column will be excluded from the output
• "Add symbol" - will add stock ticker column as the first column of the output
• "Intraday->Daily" will replace intraday times by dates. This option may be useful when your charting software is not supporting intraday data formats. When this option is selected dates column will be filled by daily data going back in time. Note that these dates actually do not correspond to the actual prices. Remember that this will be only a virtual, not actual date scale.
• Checking "Reverse Data" will change chronological order of the quotes in the output file.
• "MetaStock" checkbox is automatically adjusting date, field and time order and settings so that data can be later converted into MetaStock format. Read on how to convert data into MetaStock format online

The subsequent section will answer commonly asked questions in a form of FAQ