StockXloader is a native Mac OS X application for fully automated downloading of stock market quotes and indexes to the technical analysis program ProTA or ProTA Gold - from BeeSoft - effectively building an arbitrarily large database of tickers containing historical quotes for the open/high/low/close of each day! It collects quotes from: the archives at Yahoo! Finance for any stock exchange in the world; the archive at Affärsvärlden (a Swedish business magazine) carrying quotes and many indexes for the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The downloaded information is automatically imported into the database of ProTA. In the process, it informs ProTA which tickers are stocks and which are indexes so that any new ticker is put into the right category by ProTA. If you don't have ProTA, you may want to first try out the combination of ProTA and StockXloader before you consider any purchase. Yes, you can do that! First, download and install the demo version of ProTA (http://beesoft.net), then download and install StockXloader. Run StockXloader, which will work with the demo version of ProTA up until the control is handed over to ProTA; when ProTA is supposed to create new ticker files, it won't do that of course, since that is precisely the limitation of the demo version of ProTA, but it will nevertheless clearly show how these programs operate in your environment. Although StockXloader will function also without an installed version of ProTA, it is only meaningful to use it with ProTA. The reason StockXloader is made to be able to operate without ProTA is that it makes it possible for you to try out the software before you decide that the combination of ProTA and StockXloader is an excellent choice. As of this date, the official ProTA still only runs under Mac OS Classic, but an OS X version is scheduled to be released later this year. StockXloader is designed to work with both the Classic and the upcoming OS X version of ProTA, but a few adaptations will be made when the  |  |
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