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Where might I obtain historical data going back several years for stocks on the New York, or NASDAQ, exchanges? If there is a more appropriate place to post this, please let me know. Thanks.

Thanks everyone for your replies. I am a complete novice at this stuff and don't understand everything you posted, but I am glad to have found this forum and it seems like reading here will be quite educational. There sure is a lot to learn; it makes me wish I'd gotten a finance degree. I wonder...

With "cash flowing into the safety of bonds" (Nightly Business Report) one would think rates would be decreasing, but for the last couple of sessions they rose. Does anybody understand why? Thanks Jim

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Handle123, thanks for the fascinating post. Over the years, how did you develop your systems? Did you adopt something wholesale from a book(s), or person(s), or did you just study and study and invent your own methods from what you learned? Where would you advise a beginner such as myself to...

Yes, I know.....it might work out fine.... :) I must say, that is a mighty fine avatar.

Just another thought. If it were me, I'd go with the older guy charging 110 an hour instead of the younger guys charging 35 an hour. Chances are you'll end up spending less and getting more.

Yeah, as a programmer for 30ish years, it's not so much knowing how to code in some particular language. It's knowing the environment that you need work done in. C (C++, C#) coders are not hard to find. But finding one that can immediately be productive in NinjaTrader is another story. That has...

Thanks very much just21 and WeToddDid2. Jim

Hi jeb, thanks for the reply. The trading stations I've seen show data as charts; what I meant was I want the number rather than a chart. Hopefully somebody will know of free data streams, we'll see. How much computing power do you think? I have 24 cores, 64gb of ram, 3 M2 SSDs in a Raid1...

Hi all, I would like to try writing a program to analyze stocks. This is my first post and I am a total beginner. Is there a way to have the hourly (or by the minute or second) prices of all stocks streamed over the internet to my computer? Are there any open source toolboxes for capturing them...