Free Quotes: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:16, 1 July 2024

Free Quotes data feed is configured correctly by default and one can plot a chart using a number of prebuilt symbols from Free Quotes. That is free end-of-day historical daily bars coming from Yahoo Finance. Only limited number of Stocks and Indexes are available from this data source in MultiCharts.

With FreeQuotes you can get data only for the symbols that on Historical Data webpage have option Download.

To set up Free Quotes data feed connection:

In the QuoteManager main menu select Tools and then click Data Sources, find Free Quotes in the list of all supported data vendors and click the Settings button.
In the opened up window:
- Edit the number and timeout of attempts to request data from Yahoo servers by editing Retry and Timeout columns.
- In the Proxy Authentication tab select Auto-detect proxy settings for this network to use your system's proxy settings. Username and Password are required for authentication.
- Select Use application proxy settings to use the proxy settings specified in the Credentials Window.

To add an instrument manually or from data source, see Adding Symbols to Symbol List.

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 Free Quotes data feed is configured correctly by default and one can plot a chart using a number of prebuilt symbols from Free Quotes. That is free end-of-day historical daily bars coming from Yahoo Finance. Only limited number of Stocks and Indexes are available from this data source in MultiCharts.
-<div style="background-color: #b8debc;">'''NOTE:''' With FreeQuotes you can get data only for the symbols that on Historical Data webpage have option '''Download'''.</div>
+<div class="note">With FreeQuotes you can get data only for the symbols that on Historical Data webpage have option '''Download'''.</div>
-<br>
+To set up Free Quotes data feed connection:
-To set up Free Quotes data feed connection
+# In the '''QuoteManager''' main menu select '''Tools''' and then click '''Data Sources''', find '''Free Quotes''' in the list of all supported data vendors and click the '''Settings''' button.
-:# In the '''QuoteManager''' main menu select '''Tools''' and then click '''Data Sources''', find '''Free Quotes''' in the list of all supported data vendors and click the '''Settings''' button. The Free Quotes Data Feed Configuration window is opened.
+# In the opened up window:
-:# In the opened up window:
+#* Edit the number and timeout of attempts to request data from '''Yahoo''' servers by editing '''Retry''' and '''Timeout''' columns.
-::* Edit the number and timeout of attempts to request data from '''Yahoo''' servers by editing '''Retry''' and '''Timeout''' columns.
+#* In the '''Proxy Authentication''' tab select '''Auto-detect proxy settings for this network''' to use your system's proxy settings. Username and Password are required for authentication.
-::* Set up proxy connection in the Proxy Authentication tab:
+#* Select '''Use application proxy settings''' to use the proxy settings specified in the [https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Credentials_Window Credentials Window].
-::: Select '''Auto-detect proxy settings for this network''' to use your system's proxy settings. Username and Password are required for authentication.
+<div class="tip-no-title">To add an instrument manually or from data source, see [[Operating_Symbol_List#Adding_Symbols_to_Symbol_List|Adding Symbols to Symbol List]].</div>
-::: Select '''Use application proxy settings''' to use the proxy settings specified in the [https://www.multicharts.com/trading-software/index.php/Credentials_Window Credentials Window].
-<br>
-To add an instrument manually, see [[Data_Sources_Overview#Adding_Symbol.28s.29_to_Symbol_List|Adding Symbol(s) to Symbol List]].
 [[Category:Built-in Data Sources]]