Thank you murthymsr and CNBONDRE.
Thank you for the suggesions. I am studying them for future enhancements.
-Suny
Hi sunyhyd,
Thanks for the prompt and positive response.
I was getting the error as I have indicated in my earlier PM when I try to add a watch-list/stock.
Yahoo provides quote data for indices and stocks for all the large exchanges / countries spread across different time zones. User may or may not be located in the time zone where the exchange is located.
A sw made based on yahoo data could be useful to all, if properly designed.
With this in my mind, I was thinking that ManshiRT needs some improvements. Hope you don't mind if I share my thoughts on this !
To make the system simple, I feel that watch-lists and symbols need some reorganization.
Watch-list is a group of stocks and symbol is either a stock or an index.
symbol may have a prefix like in an index and a suffix to indicate the exchange.
User may create a watch list, specifying the parameters:
1) Watch-List name, which can be added, deleted or edited.
2) Fetch quotes from time (his local/system time) ; prefilled default value NSE To time.
3) Fetch quotes upto time (his local/system time) ; prefilled default value NSE To time.
4) Enable/Disable option. The quotes for symbols in the watch-list are fetched only when this check box is checked. With this facility, a user may simultaneously fetch quotes from different watch-lists. As you can see, there is a lot of time overlap among all the exchanges.
The symbol selection may have the following parameters.
1) Index (Y/N check box).
2) symbol body ( only the first 9 characters of the entered value are used, even if NSE symbol is directly entered)
3) Alias name: If an alias name is entered, the quoted may be delivered to AB with the alias name instead of the symbol. This facility allows user to select a user friendly name instead of the yahoo symbol, which sometimes is confusing.)
4) Exchange suffix ( NSE suffix "NS" prefilled. This may be ignored if Index=Y at 1)
5) Test button. On pressing this button, the symbol will be assembled with the data provided in the row and a request eill be sent to the built-in browser to fetch the quotes/chart. This will allow users to check for themselves if data entered is correct.
6) Watch-List of which this symbol is a member of. A symbol can be a member of only ONE watch list.
7) Enable/disable : user may select the stocks for which he will need the intra-day data on that day. In general, a user may have a master list of many stocks out of which he may select only some on a particular day.
In this arrangement exchange parameter is there only in conjunction with stock suffix and I feel this will cater to ALL users across this globe.
You may look into and act as desired / feasible.
Thanks for your time.
murthymsr
