Re: Download "bug" from Yahoo ?

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In Reply to: Download "bug" from Yahoo ? posted by Wayne McCracken on February 27, 2001 at 14:32:22:

: Don't think I had this problem before the latest edition of FundManager (professional).

: When I update prices from Yahoo in the am before market opens (to make sure I have the previous day's closing numbers and not some mid-day numbers) it updates the previous day's closing price (as it did previously) but it also overwrites the previous day's volume, open, high & low numbers with zeros. I then have to wait for the market to open and then do a "Yahoo historical" download for the previous day to get the numbers back.

: Probably it is caused by Yahoo clearing their numbers in preparation for the next day but is there some way to handle this in the software?

: Wayne McCracken

Hi Wayne,
Are you using the plain "Yahoo" or the "Yahoo (real-time)" quote server?
Nothing has changed in FM for the plain Yahoo server in quite some time.
If you visit the Yahoo site with your browser before the market opens
(when this 0 data is retrieved for vol/high/low/open) does your browser
show these as 0 as well? If so, you may want to retrieve data the prior
night before Yahoo clears out these values to 0. You could make use of
Windows Task Scheduler if you are not at your computer then, so that
it happens automatically. You can use FM's command line options to update
this way.

Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley

Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00

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