Recent content by SimonR

Jerry, I’ve been looking at the QuoteTracker site for a couple of days now and have downloaded and installed the software. I’ll buy it if it does what I need but I have a couple of questions first. 1/ I can’t seem to get it to work with ADVFN. I have a valid (free registration)...

Oops. I have just noticed that Quotetracker does interface with a UK site (ADVFN), so please ignore my last post (except the part thanking you for your help). I’ll pursue this option.

This is really helpful. I had no idea that such services were available. I had read that America was ahead of the UK in the daytrading field but I didn’t realise quite how far ahead. Reading the Quotetracker website, it looks as though I could interface with the HTTP server without much...

Thanks. I assumed that Yahoo data was delayed because they have a notice at the bottom of the page - "Quotes delayed 15 minutes for Nasdaq, 20 minutes otherwise". Do you think that the prices are actually real-time, despite this notice?

Thanks for the quick reply. I’ve just looked at their website and it seems that APIs are available for Windows C++ and Visual Basic. I can program in PERL but there is no mention of an API for this. I’m not sure that I like the idea of teaching myself a new language. Also, I would need a...

Can anyone please help with my problem? I wish to start day trading but am having trouble finding real-time price information in the format that I need. There are plenty of web sites that give HTML lists of prices in delayed time (eg http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=@DOW.L&f=snlcvi) and plenty...