I'm in the process of deciding whether to upgrade to EViews 7.0/7.1. The GetStocks data add-in sounds helpful and potentially powerful. A few quick questions, if you please will:
In general, is there any comprehensive, detailed literature available for this add-in?
Some things I'm interested in knowing are:
1. Does the add-in retrieve data from publicly available sites, such as yahoo, msn, etc.?
2. Is it also possible to retrieve index data, for example on broad market indexes (Dow, S&P, NASDAQ), ETFs, Mutual Funds, so on and so forth?
3. What securities/indexes ticker conventions are used? Are cusips identified? Are ETF and Mutual Fund tickers identified?
4. Is it possible to actually see/get to/manipulate the code which drives the add-in? Is the add-in code something that can be expanded upon once it's downloaded by a user?
5. How heavy duty are the retrieval capabilities? If I wanted to retrieve time series data on literally thousands of tickers, is it possible? Or is there a finite limit to the number of tickers (and/or length of time series) that can be retrieved? Maybe it's just a question of available RAM?
6. Is there desire/ambition to push beyond the ability to only fetch the following:
o retrieve open price
c retrieve close price
h retrieve high price
l retrieve low price
a retrieve adjusted close price
v retrieve volume
For example, this link (
http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm) lists lots of "tags" for different variables for a given security. A generalization of the above list (o, c, h, ... , v) to accomodate a broader set of indicatives (such as are on the link) could be huge for securities analysts, traders, etc.
Thanks much!