Trainee Trader » BulkQuotesXL http://www.traineetrader.com Trainee Trader provides articles and tutorials related to Forex, Derivatives, Equities and Futures markets. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:16:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 TraderXL Pro Package – BulkQuotesXL http://www.traineetrader.com/traderxl-pro-package-bulkquotesxl/ http://www.traineetrader.com/traderxl-pro-package-bulkquotesxl/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:01:38 +0000 Mark http://www.traineetrader.com/?p=520 BulkQuotesXL is the more robust sibling of DownloaderXL. BulkQuotesXL has a greater range of functionality and is more geared towards mass data acquisition. One of the standout features of BulkQuotesXL is the ability to obtain Futures data from PiFin the contracts are continuous and rolled on expiration. You can also download stock, indices and mutual fund data via Yahoo. The image below shows the BulkQuotesXL menu and the addins core functionality.

TraderXL Pro BulkQuotes Menu

You can download a free 10 day trial of TraderXL Pro.

The most striking difference between BulkQuotesXL and DownloaderXL is the variable input screen. Instead of entering data via a dialog box you enter the data directly into cells in a control sheet. After clicking on the New Download Project you will be presented with a similar screen as shown below.

TraderXL NewProject

By adopting this approach it is a lot easier to automate your data acquisition and presentation. You can run Macros directly after data is imported. The one criticism I have is there is not enough documentation of all the available functions. BulkQuotesXL also has added templates that make the data import process that much easier. The screenshot below shows the standard templates.

TraderXL Pro BulkQuotes Templates

The templates include:

  • Column-by-column template.
  • Row-by-row template.
  • Summary template.
  • Major world indexes template.
  • Export data template.
  • Historical futures data template.

We will select the Historical futures data template in order to showcase the features of this addin. It is a simple matter of clicking on the Historical Futures data icon and a new worksheet will be opened as shown below:

HistFutureData

We will use these default settings for this project. The next step is to click on the Download/refresh data button and the data will be downloaded and inserted into different sheets as shown below.

Hist Futures Graph

The full range of futures contracts you can obtain are shown here.

You can download a free 10 day trial of TraderXL Pro.

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