Using DreamTai for Forex and Commodities

3 Jan 07, 20:49
Jesse: How can I get foreign currency prices on dreamtai.



Dear Sir,

You can import data from other programs, if they have the ability to
export data in CSV format.

In DreamTai, the price data files are stored in the same folder as DreamTai.
They are stored in CSV format. For example, if you had entered Microsoft
ticker symbol in Dreamtai, DreamTai will download data for microsoft and
store it in a file named MSFT.CSV.
( The ticker symbol for microsoft is MSFT)

You can open and edit CSV data in Microsoft Excel or notepad.
The price data is in form of following data separated by commas:
Date, Open , High, Low, Close, Volume, Adjusted Close
( If you do not have Adjusted close, just substitute it by Close data)

Suppose you want to analyse data for a commodity or forex currency named XYZ
which is not listed in Yahoo Finance.
Export data from your program in CSV format. See that the data has fields
arranged in
following sequence:
Date, Open , High, Low, Close, Volume, Adjusted Close
( If you do not have Adjusted close, just substitute it by Close data)

and save the file as XYZ.csv.

Now, there is another file called stocklist.txt which has a list of all
stocks in your watchlist. Open stocklist.txt using NotePad and add symbol
XYZ to it and save it and close it.

Now start DreamTai.
When you click on the LOAD button, a pop up will appear "Do you want to
download data from the internet ?"
Here you will click NO because for XYZ, you have your custom data.

Then, you will be able to view data for XYZ in DreamTai.



Please feel free to ask more questions.

Sincerely,
Sanjoy