Main window

Using the main screen is simple. The screen is divided into several sections. You can choose from:

  • Latest quotes. These are the latest prices of the last (or today) trading day. If the exchange is (still) open, the closing price is the last price, intraday, at which the fund traded.
  • Historical quotes. Here you can download quotes (end-of-day) over one or more days (months, years). You can specify for which period you want to download the quotes.
  • Complete list. The quotes of all funds, stocks and indices in the selected list are downloaded.
  • Individual fund. If you select this option, you can choose one fund, stock or index. The quotes of this fund, share or index are then downloaded. This option is used if you want to download the historical prices of one fund, stock or index.
  • Download source. From version 4 QuoteStocker has four download sources. See also the description on the page about download lists.

Image of the main window of QuoteStocker to download stock quotes

 

To start the download, click on the green button with the white arrow.

 

Latest or Historical Quotes

If you only want end-of-day quotes, then downloading via ‘Historical quotes‘ is the safest method. If you download via ‘Latest quotes,’ then you have to wait until the stock market closes. Otherwise, you will get the intraday quotes. It is recommended to wait one to two hours until after the closing time of the exchange. If you download quotes from different exchanges, you need to keep a close eye on the different closing times. The different download lists facilitate that. When downloading via “Historical quotes” you do not have to pay attention to that.

Buttons

At the bottom of the window you will see a chain link and five buttons. These have the following functions:

The chain link indicates whether or not there is a connection to the Internet. If there is no internet connection, a broken link appears.

 

This button opens a window where you can edit the general settings of QuoteStocker. For example: the folder where you want to save the downloaded files, the format of your technical analysis software, the language selection and more. See ‘Settings‘.

 

This button opens a window where you can edit the download lists. You can add, modify, and delete funds, stocks, indexes, and futures. See ‘Edit Download List‘.

 

Start downloading quotes by clicking this button!

 

Start the help function.

 

Exit the program.

 

Interested in QuoteStocker? You can order the software right now. Or download the free trial version first.