Importing historical mutual fund data from Canada Stickwatch

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Mark:

I've joined Canada Stockwatch, and I want to import historical data for my Canadian mutual funds.

Your "Tips & Tricks" site gives the following instructions for doing this:

"Canadian investors may wish to check out Canada Stockwatch. This is a fee based service which offers historical prices on Canadian stocks as well as mutual funds. The generic import command in Fund Manager can import this data. Download the "ASCII2" format, and use the format string: SYMB,MM/DD/YY,XX,HH,LL,NAV,VV. "

I'm unclear how exactly to perform this action. Could you please provide some more information? The "import" function (File/Import/Prices/Generic, at which point I guess I paste in the above string) seems to be for data that I've already downloaded to my computer, rather than importing it from a third party site such as Canada Stockwatch. Is that correct?

I'm a little confused - any help would be most appreciated.

Regards,

Jack

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