Description on how to download Historical EOD data from MSN Money Central:
End-of-day historical data, indices, and mutual fund for Japan, Australia, Belgium,
Canada, France, Italy, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and US are available
at MSN Money Central. Illustration below is for getting historical Japan EOD stock data,
but the procedure is similar.
You can find the symbols at:
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/common/find.asp?NextPage=/investor/charts/chart
dl.asp
You can also find all the Japan (JP) stock symbols with names starting with ‘A’ at:
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/common/findsymbol.asp?optType=&Country=JP
%3A&NextPage=%2Finvestor%2Fcharts%2Fchartdl.asp&iMenu=&dl=&optCriteria=%3
F&Company=A&ENTER=Go
Country code:
Australia – AU
Belgium – BE
Canada – CA
France – FR
Italy – IT
Germany – DE
UK – GB
Japan – JP
Netherlands – NL
Spain – ES
Sweden – SE
The actual EOD download site, which we will use for automated download, is at (Sony,
for example):
http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/equity-historicalprice/?PT=5&D4=1&DD=1&D5=0&DCS=2&MA0=0&MA1=0&CF=0&nocookie=1&S
Z=0&symbol=JP:6758
Note that as of Jan 2012, only about 6 months of the latest daily data are available.
Set-up:
1. Copy the following lines and append to your existing “mywebserver.txt”, or
simply substitute it with the attached “mywebserver.txt”.
MSN_DXXXX,http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/equity-historicalprice/?PT=5&D4=1&DD=1&D5=0&DCS=2&MA0=0&MA1=0&CF=0&nocookie=1&S
Z=0&symbol=SSSS,D1,MSN_D1.fmt
2. Copy the “MSN_D1.fmt” file to the “fmt” subfolder.
3. Run HSQuote Plus and set up “MSN_D_JAPAN.tic” or “MSN_D_GB.tic” as
shown.
Historical Daily Data Download:
Just select the Download Period and Daily, then click on the Start button to download.