Once upon a time I came across an application that was supposed to tap into a server online with the stipulation that one can download a stream of NYSE and other market quotes in real time as they are posted online. I understand that the assess may not be entirely free.

My questions are: Has anyone heard about it? Do you have any information about the dll's used? In the example I saw which I cannot immediately find they used the oleAutoClient class.

If you have any information then where can I find the formats to read the stream?

I am continuing my own search and perhaps I can answer some of these questions in a day or two but any response will be appreciated.

Thanks.

From:	Dan Bernard
Subject:	Re: STREAMING MARKET QUOTES
Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:44:47 -0500

Hi Brandon,

Just a suggestion, you could drop an activex web browser on a form to
display a real time stock ticker. I did a quick search and there seem to be
many examples of html/perl/java code for doing this. There were many
freeware examples available.

Dan

"BRANDON33" wrote in message
news:NbaPJ0W%23EHA.708@news-server...
> Once upon a time I came across an application that was supposed to tap
into a server online with the stipulation that one can download a stream of
NYSE and other market quotes in real time as they are posted online. I
understand that the assess may not be entirely free.
>
> My questions are: Has anyone heard about it? Do you have any information
about the dll's used? In the example I saw which I cannot immediately find
they used the oleAutoClient class.
>
> If you have any information then where can I find the formats to read the
stream?
>
> I am continuing my own search and perhaps I can answer some of these
questions in a day or two but any response will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.

From:	Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]
Subject:	Re: STREAMING MARKET QUOTES
Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:31:06 -0500

"BRANDON33" wrote in message
news:NbaPJ0W%23EHA.708@news-server...
> Once upon a time I came across an application that was supposed to tap
into a server online with the stipulation that one can download a stream of
NYSE and other market quotes in real time as they are posted online. I
understand that the assess may not be entirely free.
>
> My questions are: Has anyone heard about it? Do you have any information
about the dll's used? In the example I saw which I cannot immediately find
they used the oleAutoClient class.

I've not heard of this. Did a search a while back on trying to get market
values off the net for some investment accounting stuff I have. The only
thing I found was the ability to set up a portfolio and download that
information.

If you find something, report back.

Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]

From:	Michael Nuwer [dBVIPS]
Subject:	Re: STREAMING MARKET QUOTES
Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:51:19 -0500

Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS] wrote:
> "BRANDON33" wrote in message
> news:NbaPJ0W%23EHA.708@news-server...
>
>>Once upon a time I came across an application that was supposed to tap
>
> into a server online with the stipulation that one can download a stream of
> NYSE and other market quotes in real time as they are posted online. I
> understand that the assess may not be entirely free.
>
>>My questions are: Has anyone heard about it? Do you have any information
>
> about the dll's used? In the example I saw which I cannot immediately find
> they used the oleAutoClient class.
>
> I've not heard of this. Did a search a while back on trying to get market
> values off the net for some investment accounting stuff I have. The only
> thing I found was the ability to set up a portfolio and download that
> information.
>
> If you find something, report back.
>

Here are a few links that I've found. But I haven't had time to work
with any. It looks like all of the example code is using SOAP.

http://www.finwin.com/Dev/quotes/quotes/futchainxml.cfm
http://www.serviceobjects.com/products/dots_fastquote.asp?zut=ggl1002&bhcp=1
http://www.serviceobjects.com/support/dots_example_code.asp
http://www.google.com/search?q=stock+market+quotes+xml&hl=en&lr=&start=30&sa=N

--
Michael Nuwer
http://www.nuwermj.potsdam.edu/dLearn/
http://www.nuwermj.potsdam.edu/dSamples/

"I would rather be vaguely right, than precisely wrong."
-- John Maynard Keynes

From:	Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]
Subject:	Re: STREAMING MARKET QUOTES
Date:	Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:35:19 -0500

"Michael Nuwer [dBVIPS]" wrote:
>
> Here are a few links that I've found. But I haven't had time to work
> with any. It looks like all of the example code is using SOAP.
>
> http://www.finwin.com/Dev/quotes/quotes/futchainxml.cfm
> http://www.serviceobjects.com/products/dots_fastquote.asp?zut=ggl1002&bhcp=1
> http://www.serviceobjects.com/support/dots_example_code.asp
> http://www.google.com/search?q=stock+market+quotes+xml&hl=en&lr=&start=30&sa=N

Thanks, Michael. Will take a look...

--
Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]

From:	BRANDON33
Subject:	Re: STREAMING MARKET QUOTES
Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:20:07 -0500

Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS] Wrote:

> "BRANDON33" wrote in message
> news:NbaPJ0W%23EHA.708@news-server...
> > Once upon a time I came across an application that was supposed to tap
> into a server online with the stipulation that one can download a stream of
> NYSE and other market quotes in real time as they are posted online. I
> understand that the assess may not be entirely free.
> >
> > My questions are: Has anyone heard about it? Do you have any information
> about the dll's used? In the example I saw which I cannot immediately find
> they used the oleAutoClient class.
>
> I've not heard of this. Did a search a while back on trying to get market
> values off the net for some investment accounting stuff I have. The only
> thing I found was the ability to set up a portfolio and download that
> information.
>
> If you find something, report back.
>
> Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]

After I posted the original post I found an application in my archive called "dQoute" by Dave. There is no source code and this is a drawback. I ran it and it did not work. When you use it as recommended at the command prompt C:>dquote MSFT the error message it gives is: symbol not found. When you give two symbols as argument: C:>dquote MSFT BAC it gives "computation error 57." I could not find out what error 57 means. I wish I had the source code for the beast.

This is the readme (dQuote.txt) file accompanying the application:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dQuote - Display Stock Quote Info
Copyright (c) 2000,2001 by WebGeek Inc. (dave@basicguru.com)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've got a satellite dish at work and we keep the TV tuned to CNBC all day
long. I don't know much about the market or investing (I've just got mutual
funds and CD's). However, the current IPO craze has got me fascinated and
I've started learning about investing.

I am also playing the "Investment Challenge", an online trading game by Tech
TV that gives you an imaginary $500,000 to invest over the course of a month.
The person who has made the most money at the end of the month wins various
prizes (laptops, computers, etc.)

It's a pain to visit CNBC, CNNFN, or most of the other sites to look up stock
values all the time. Particularly when I don't keep a browser open all the
time. However, as we all know, I do keep DOS boxes open all day, so I wrote
a utility to get me current price info on stocks.

This utility uses a free service to download stock information, so the data
can be delayed up to 20 minutes (fine for my needs). To use it, simply type
in a stock symbol name after the program name:

dQuote msft

will return stock information on Microsoft. You *must* know a valid stock
symbol. Multiple symbols can be passed on the command line seperated by
spaces:

dQuote msft ibm

All of the data is displayed through the STDOUT device, so it can be
redirected to a file or a web site. To use dQuote on your web site, place
the .EXE in your cgi-bin directory and pass the symbol on the URL command
line:

http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/dquote.exe?msft
http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/dquote.exe?msft+ibm

If you have any questions or comments, please email them to me.

dQUOTE is freeware. There is no charge for personal use.

Thanks!

--Dave
dave@basicguru.com

---

Version 1.61 update -- Nasdaq updated to IIS 5.0 which broke some internal
code in dQuote.

Version 1.60 update -- Nasdaq changed the name of their domain which broke
previous versions of dQuote. This has been fixed.

Any further insight and revelations are welcome.

Thanks.

From:	Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]
Subject:	Re: STREAMING MARKET QUOTES
Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:59:04 -0500

BRANDON33 wrote:
>
> After I posted the original post I found an application in my archive called "dQoute" by Dave.

Where did you get this originaly, from the dBASE news groups?

--
Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]

From:	BRANDON33
Subject:	Re: STREAMING MARKET QUOTES
Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:29:05 -0500

Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS] Wrote:

> BRANDON33 wrote:
> >
> > After I posted the original post I found an application in my archive called "dQoute" by Dave.
>
> Where did you get this originaly, from the dBASE news groups?
>
> --
> Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]

I wish I could remember, Todd.

I can post the .exe file if you wish.
Thanks.

From:	Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]
Subject:	Re: STREAMING MARKET QUOTES
Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:19:44 -0500

BRANDON33 wrote:
>
> I wish I could remember, Todd.

Sounds like something for dBASE being the name is dQUOTE. I check the
old internet news groups.

> I can post the .exe file if you wish.

No, I can't do anything with it.

--
Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]

From:	BRANDON33
Subject:	Re: STREAMING MARKET QUOTES
Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2005 06:36:38 -0500

Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS] Wrote:

> BRANDON33 wrote:
> >
> > I wish I could remember, Todd.
>
> Sounds like something for dBASE being the name is dQUOTE. I check the
> old internet news groups.
>
> > I can post the .exe file if you wish.
>
> No, I can't do anything with it.
>
> --
> Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]

Me neither.